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Product Description Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won’t change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are. Ain’t nothing like family! .com Tyler Perry, juggling top-rated sitcoms and films that bear his name above the title (not to mention projects such as Precious to which he lends his considerable clout to get made), is the newest hardest-working man in show business. Somehow in 2010 he found time to write, direct, and star in this heartfelt theatrical project--his first in five years--inspired by his late mother and featuring his signature character Madea. He did 125 shows in 126 days. Exhaustion forced him to cancel the remainder of the tour, but the cameras were rolling for this enthusiastically received rafter-rattling performance. Big Happy Family delivers everything to be expected from a Perry play: bruising family dysfunction, physical comedy, soul-stirring gospel uplift, and Oprah-style empowerment. Chandra Currelley-Young stars as Shirley, who learns she is dying of cancer. She tries to tell her family, but they are too wrapped up in their own melodramas to pay her any mind. There's the son who turns to selling drugs to keep his gold-digging girlfriend, the daughter who is unlucky in love, and another daughter too involved in her career. Weighing in on the sidelines is Madea, who, about 90 minutes in, stops the show to go "off-script" to weigh in on marriage, manhood, and even the housing crisis. Big Happy Family is broadly written and acted, the character types way beyond stereo. But Perry's positive populist messages about family, self-respect, and keeping the faith hit home with his appreciative audience. Perry has joked in interviews about wanting to kill off Madea, but like Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner before him, he seems to have made peace with the character that put him on the map. During the emotional curtain call, he tells the crowd that his mother told him, "Don't stop doing Madea… I'll keep doing it as long as you want to keep seeing it." That could be awhile. --Donald Liebenson
E**A
Great price
Love the movie. Very happy with my purchase. Package very well, no complaints- just joy!
E**S
#1 Play In My Opinion
By far, out of all his plays, THIS ONE IS #1 FOR ME!!! I lost my mom in 2009 to cancer as well and Ms. Shirley was a lot like my mother. This play made me cry, laugh and rejoice. “Heaven Waits For Me” is a reminder that even though we long for our loved ones who have passed on to be physically here with us, they are in a place that is beyond our wildest dreams. A place of love, joy, peace and the awesome presence of God!!!! What a day that will be when our Jesus we shall see and to be united with our loved ones. WELL DONE TYLER PERRY AND CAST!!! WELL DONE!
E**Y
Awesome
Awesome
J**I
Amazing and Funny-Better than the actual Movie!
This is my first time seeing a Tyler Perry play. I loved it! It was funny, sad, it pretty much something for everyone! What I loved most was the soulful music that is sung, speaking of your faith, and the inspiring message that Tyler/Madea speaks at the end. I just love Madea and her many ways of getting her message across! I find it amazing that the cast in the play can keep from cracking up, even though I saw them smile like they were going to laugh. I also have seen several of his movies, but to me Madea holds the top spot! If you like music and roll on the floor laughter then you should get this play! My friend enjoys it so much I gave her my copy and I have since purchased another copy to replace it. I know that since I added it to my collection it will be a favorite for years to come!
J**E
Hilarious and Classic Play
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family is a phenomenal play out of the genius mind of Tyler Perry. I've never laughed so hard to a play that has characters that reflect my own family and is relatable on so many levels. The iconic Madea delivers great jokes in her classic style and is hilarious alongside her side kick Aunt Bam who also delivers rib cracking jokes. This is 2hrs 33 minutes well spent and worth the purchase.
J**N
Funny
Love Madea's Stage Plays. Can't see the show live, so this is next best thing!
A**R
The message is on point
I love this movie. It made me cry, it made me laugh out loud. It has reality real talk in the movie. I love the music, and most of all, I love, love, love when he does the old school songs. Tyler Perry's plays always have several messages in his play....and also when he goes off script. I watch 4 times the first weekend it was delivered to my home.
S**2
Madea's Big Happy Family The Play
I and 3 other co workers went to Chicago for the last show before he left last year on March 6, 2010. I myself am a 50 year old African American woman and the other 3 where white. We left the play speechless it was so great this was the first time we had seen Tyler Perry in person and he did not let us down. This play is so powerful the music was fantastic and of course the people who were in it did a great job. This play was supposed to come to our home town but was one of the things that had to be canceled due to Mr. Perry not feeling well. I was so upset because we were all going to go see it again. It is a must see for everyone. I have grown to love the messages that he puts in all of his projects so I collect all of the plays as well as the movies. I look forward in April to going to the movie theater to see it as a movie it will be great.
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