Poor Unfortunate Souls
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wonderboynjThis is my review of the unfortunate broadway musical I saw on Thursday, February 7th.
I waited for awhile to write this review because I hoped that my opinion of the show would change, it didn't really.
The show is pretty much awful and if you spend top dollar price for one of those tickets, you will be wasting a good deal of money. In the interest of honesty, I will tell you that my seat was free, even that didn't change my opinion much.
I wanted desperately to love the show, even before I saw it. It has one of my favorite songs in it "Part of Your World".
The set design is horrible, I can't imagine what they were thinking. It's all clear plastic and it doesn't even look good. At one point Arial looks like she is sitting in a soap dish, singing when she has no voice. King Triton rides around on a segway like thing.
Disney shot itself in the foot with the Lion King I think, because every show they do from now on will be compared to it, and it will never match it up to the sheer evening of entertainment that it turned out to be. I even loved Beauty & The Beast, which was pretty much an exact recreation of the movie, with a few special effects and some new songs thrown in.
There are a few good things to say about the Little Mermaid. The first, the cast is stellar, every last one of them. At times you are almost embarassed for them that this talent is being wasted there. Sierra Bogess as Ariel I loved. Sheri Renee Scott as Ursula stole the show, her first act number, the Good Old Days, is the one reason I will buy the cd for. But not at full price, I will buy it used on Amazon. Titus Burgess who plays Sebastian the Crab was amazing as well. His two big songs, Under The Sea and Kiss The Girl were the two best scenes in the show, oh and they used the same set for both of them.
My friend Scott has his particularly scathing review here
With all that said, I still have promised my niece I would take her to see it when she comes to NYC. Maybe then I can actually enjoy it, watching it through the eyes of a 7 year old.
I waited for awhile to write this review because I hoped that my opinion of the show would change, it didn't really.
The show is pretty much awful and if you spend top dollar price for one of those tickets, you will be wasting a good deal of money. In the interest of honesty, I will tell you that my seat was free, even that didn't change my opinion much.
I wanted desperately to love the show, even before I saw it. It has one of my favorite songs in it "Part of Your World".
The set design is horrible, I can't imagine what they were thinking. It's all clear plastic and it doesn't even look good. At one point Arial looks like she is sitting in a soap dish, singing when she has no voice. King Triton rides around on a segway like thing.
Disney shot itself in the foot with the Lion King I think, because every show they do from now on will be compared to it, and it will never match it up to the sheer evening of entertainment that it turned out to be. I even loved Beauty & The Beast, which was pretty much an exact recreation of the movie, with a few special effects and some new songs thrown in.
There are a few good things to say about the Little Mermaid. The first, the cast is stellar, every last one of them. At times you are almost embarassed for them that this talent is being wasted there. Sierra Bogess as Ariel I loved. Sheri Renee Scott as Ursula stole the show, her first act number, the Good Old Days, is the one reason I will buy the cd for. But not at full price, I will buy it used on Amazon. Titus Burgess who plays Sebastian the Crab was amazing as well. His two big songs, Under The Sea and Kiss The Girl were the two best scenes in the show, oh and they used the same set for both of them.
My friend Scott has his particularly scathing review here
With all that said, I still have promised my niece I would take her to see it when she comes to NYC. Maybe then I can actually enjoy it, watching it through the eyes of a 7 year old.
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Date: 2008-02-24 07:42 am (UTC)I got an anonymous comment on my review today...apparently I'm just mean. It's really a good show, you'll love it. Go on, go see.
If you're going to pay full price when you go, let me know and I'll ask about setting you up with house seats. If she's gonna go, she may as well be in extra-good seats! (It's unlikely they'd do comps, but not completely impossible. It'll be rightly snubbed at the Tonys and flounder its way through the summer, so who knows what they'll agree to just to have butts in seats.)
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Date: 2008-02-24 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-24 01:52 pm (UTC)HUGS!
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Date: 2008-02-24 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-24 04:41 pm (UTC)