#876
Posted: 8/18/17 at 8:57pm
Orchestrations are so run-of-the-mill. Couldn't they have sounded more magical....and maybe folksy or Norwegian-ish?
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#877
Posted: 8/18/17 at 9:06pm
Monster sounded great, Caissie's last note sounded incredible.
#878
Posted: 8/18/17 at 9:18pm
Monster is good, but it's not much more. I would've loved a more dramatic Broadway ballad like song, instead of that it just sounded a little too contemporary. The last bit with the chorus and Cassie's notes are insanely good though, so that's a plus.
#879
Posted: 8/18/17 at 10:05pm
^My thoughts exactly. I honestly didn't like Monster. It sounds like the #1 hit on the billboard. I started to like it when the guards came out bc it started to feel like a good dramatic song.
This was my exact problem with Dangerous to Dream. It's so popish until a specific moment, then begins to sound like a musical theatre song.
The new song that sounds just like Frozen so far is A Bit of You. Hope the others are better
#880
Posted: 8/19/17 at 12:14am
So what's the design like? Is it a massive show? I'm bummed to hear there is no staircase in "Let It Go" only because I loved that moment at Disneyland. The end of Act 1 needs a big dramatic "wow" moment. It's Disney. They need a "how did they do that?" kind of element.
#881
Posted: 8/19/17 at 1:38am
Yes, I'd love some info about the scale of the show. Are we talking along the lines of Lion King, Aladdin, and Wicked here? Do we ever see an actual ice palace? Also, how much like the film does the Olaf puppet look? How do the differences compare to those between the film and stage versions of, say, Timon and Pumbaa? Thanks to anyone who can elaborate!
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#882
Posted: 8/19/17 at 3:12am
RippedMan said: "So what's the design like? Is it a massive show? I'm bummed to hear there is no staircase in "Let It Go" only because I loved that moment at Disneyland. The end of Act 1 needs a big dramatic "wow" moment. It's Disney. They need a "how did they do that?" kind of element.
I saw tonight's show and posted a review to Reddit. To answer your questions the set was nice but did not wow me. I have not seen other Disney musicals so I don't have anything to compare it to but it did not seem extravagant. My favorite set was the mountain store / sauna / trading post; it was charming and had a whole different feel than the rest of the musical. Most of the effects were done by lighting / animations but there were a few exceptions. While Let It Go started slow (I expected the audience to cheer when Elsa started singing but that was not the case) there was definitely a wow moment towards the end of the song.
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#883
Posted: 8/19/17 at 3:25am
kade.ivy said: "Yes, I'd love some info about the scale of the show. Are we talking along the lines of Lion King, Aladdin, and Wicked here? Do we ever see an actual ice palace? Also, how much like the film does the Olaf puppet look? How do the differences compare to those between the film and stage versions of, say, Timon and Pumbaa? Thanks to anyone who can elaborate!
- No ice palace.
- I did not see the film but looking at pictures he looks very similar just less cartooney. There was a puppeteer that had his feet attached and animated his arms with one hand and his head with another. Along with the donkey he was an audience favorite based on the applause they received at the end.
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#884
Posted: 8/19/17 at 3:46am
I can't belive it's so much like the DCA version. I thought they would go really artistic with this one like the lion king. And what about all that talk of expanding the theatre for the massive sets. Hearing from the people that already saw it, the sets are not massive at all. I mean, no ice castle?! Really?
#885
Posted: 8/19/17 at 7:24am
Yikes, my hope and interest are decreasing. Soooooooo, what's the ice palace then?
#886
Posted: 8/19/17 at 7:29am
What are the performances like? Any highlights? Would you mind posting the link to your review averagejoe_denco
#887
Posted: 8/19/17 at 8:29am
AverageJoe_DenCo said: "kade.ivy said: "Yes, I'd love some info about the scale of the show. Are we talking along the lines of Lion King, Aladdin, and Wicked here? Do we ever see an actual ice palace? Also, how much like the film does the Olaf puppet look? How do the differences compare to those between the film and stage versions of, say, Timon and Pumbaa? Thanks to anyone who can elaborate!
- No ice palace.
- I did not see the film but looking at pictures he looks very similar just less cartooney. There was a puppeteer that had his feet attached and animated his arms with one hand and his head with another. Along with the donkey he was an audience favorite based on the applause they received at the end.
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Thanks for the info! This is interesting. I was expecting a large scale show, but I can appreciate subtlety if executed well. Frozen is a story that can be told many ways, and I trust this creative team.
#888
Posted: 8/19/17 at 8:42am
I thought the whole point of knocking out the back wall of the St. James was to house Elsa's ice palace...
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#889
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:01am
I agree about Montster being pretty repetitive and derivative. The FTFIF reprise had sort of the same problem this song has. Why does Elsa have to keep telling us "there is so much fear." This is a common problem of telling not showing. It an amateurish one as well. At this point in the show if you're going to put a song about her being afraid and accepting her fate it shouldn't be so literal. She already gets a pass with Let It Go, she needs better lyrics. In a way this is just derivative of the far superior Made of Stone and lesser No Good Deed. Telling us literally the issues at hand is the least theatrical way of getting this information to us. Beast doesn't doesn't just resign himself to being a monster, he shows us he has changed by letting Belle go.
I don't think her accepting her fate as a monster is good enough. She needs to pivot to something else perhaps counter to the capture, like maybe she goes back to stop the storm and gets caught. Or maybe she actually addresses her other goals in life or guilt of not only freezing the town but maybe letting down the kingdom.
She needs to stop saying fear and start acting afraid. The movie was much easier because she was in the ice tower for a minute.
#890
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:01am
I agree about Montster being pretty repetitive and derivative. The FTFIF reprise had sort of the same problem this song has. Why does Elsa have to keep telling us "there is so much fear." This is a common problem of telling not showing. It an amateurish one as well. At this point in the show if you're going to put a song about her being afraid and accepting her fate it shouldn't be so literal. She already gets a pass with Let It Go, she needs better lyrics. In a way this is just derivative of the far superior Made of Stone and lesser No Good Deed. Telling us literally the issues at hand is the least theatrical way of getting this information to us. Beast doesn't doesn't just resign himself to being a monster, he shows us he has changed by letting Belle go.
I don't think her accepting her fate as a monster is good enough. She needs to pivot to something else perhaps counter to the capture, like maybe she goes back to stop the storm and gets caught. Or maybe she actually addresses her other goals in life or guilt of not only freezing the town but maybe letting down the kingdom.
She needs to stop saying fear and start acting afraid. The movie was much easier because she was in the ice tower for a minute.
#891
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:01am
I agree about Montster being pretty repetitive and derivative. The FTFIF reprise had sort of the same problem this song has. Why does Elsa have to keep telling us "there is so much fear." This is a common problem of telling not showing. It an amateurish one as well. At this point in the show if you're going to put a song about her being afraid and accepting her fate it shouldn't be so literal. She already gets a pass with Let It Go, she needs better lyrics. In a way this is just derivative of the far superior Made of Stone and lesser No Good Deed. Telling us literally the issues at hand is the least theatrical way of getting this information to us. Beast doesn't doesn't just resign himself to being a monster, he shows us he has changed by letting Belle go.
I don't think her accepting her fate as a monster is good enough. She needs to pivot to something else perhaps counter to the capture, like maybe she goes back to stop the storm and gets caught. Or maybe she actually addresses her other goals in life or guilt of not only freezing the town but maybe letting down the kingdom.
She needs to stop saying fear and start acting afraid. The movie was much easier because she was in the ice tower for a minute.
#892
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:13am
Y'all it's an out of town tryout with a limited run. Once it's on Broadway with a much longer run, higher ticket prices, and a more permanent venue, they'll probably expand on the set a bit more.
#893
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:21am
Could it be they're saving the ice palace for Broadway? Would it fit in the Buell theater at all? I mean, they saved the ending flying carpet for Broadway with Aladdin. It just seems weird to not do it right now. Ofcourse the 'taking out the back wall' for the massive sets was still when Bob Cowley designed it. After that they changed the whole creative team.
#894
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:26am
The St. James has housed quite a few shows with enormous sets (Bullets Over Broadway comes to mind), so when they announced that they were renovating to create even MORE room for Frozen, I definitely envisioned MASSIVE and elaborate sets the likes of which Broadway has not seen before. I am surprised to read that the sets are not bigger.
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#895
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:31am
DrewJoseph said: "Could it be they're saving the ice palace for Broadway? Would it fit in the Buell theater at all? I mean, they saved the ending flying carpet for Broadway with Aladdin. It just seems weird to not do it right now. Ofcourse the 'taking out the back wall' for the massive sets was still when Bob Cowley designed it. After that they changed the whole creative team.
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They had the carpet for the Toronto tryout.
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#896
Posted: 8/19/17 at 9:51am
Call_me_jorge said: "DrewJoseph said: "Could it be they're saving the ice palace for Broadway? Would it fit in the Buell theater at all? I mean, they saved the ending flying carpet for Broadway with Aladdin. It just seems weird to not do it right now. Ofcourse the 'taking out the back wall' for the massive sets was still when Bob Cowley designed it. After that they changed the whole creative team.
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They had the carpet for the Toronto tryout.
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No, I'm talking about the very end. When Aladdin and Jasmine fly away on the carpet in full light. In Toronto they just walked away with the camel bags. They only used the carpet there in the very dark A whole new world scene. And when they did the flying effect in such bright lights on Broadway it really was mind blowing.
#897
Posted: 8/19/17 at 10:00am
I know there'll never be a way to make Olaf less cartoon-y, but that really looks hilarious. It honestly looks like a DCA knock-off. I'll reserve full judgement until I actually go see the show, but my hopes aren't exactly high. I hope they change the puppet when it gets to the Great White Way, because from a current standpoint that is not good.
#898
Posted: 8/19/17 at 10:02am
^Agreed. I'm so worried about this show now.
HERE ARE PICS OF LET IT GO (SPOILERS):
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For what it is, the castle is well done. It's beautiful
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#899
Posted: 8/19/17 at 10:08am
The castle is beautiful though! Let It Go is one of the only scenes I'm not worried for so far. For what it's worth, I'm excited to hear Cassie belt those lyrics!
#900
Posted: 8/19/17 at 10:16am
When I saw those photos, I thought that Tumblr user was duping us until I saw that it is indeed Greg Hildreth and Jelani Alladin onstage...sigh. I know Michael Curry can be more creative than that Olaf puppet. And I guess Anna gets her winter outfit from the movie when they get to Oaken's at the top of Act II?
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