Reba McEntire including "The New York Times", which commented, "Without qualification the best performance by an actress in a musical comedy this season." McEntire personally called the musical, "some of the hardest work I've ever done in my life". In 2005, McEntire starred as Nellie Forbush in the Carnegie Hall concert production of the Broadway musical "South Pacific" with Alec Baldwin as Luther Billis and Brian Stokes Mitchell as Emile de Becque, directed by Walter Bobbie and with an adapted script by David Ives. The concert was broadcast as part of the "Great Performances" series in 2006. In October 2001, McEntire premiered
Protagonist (Persona 3) cast to defeat the Shadows. In the stage musical adaption, "Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade", the male protagonist is named and was portrayed by Shouta Aoi while the female version is named and was portrayed by Kana Asumi. In the anime film series "Persona 3 The Movie", he takes the name of Makoto Yuki. Makoto is portrayed as an ambivalent individual with an initial neutral viewpoint on the film's theme of life and death, making his growth via new found experiences the focus of the movie. Critical reception to the protagonist's character has been positive. "GameSpy" Patrick Joynt praised the