Coolness Kerrie. Are you staying for the rest of the summer? Have a job? Wanna help me find a job?
I'm soo excited for this weekend.
Ooh, I saw Tarzan yesterday. 3 1/2 hours on the rush line, but I was with friends, so it wasn't so bad. I actually really liked it. It has its flaws--weak score that doesn't really tie into the story, very weak book, the monkeys don't really look like monkeys...but still had lots of great aspects. The lighting design was awesome, and the visual at the beginning w/ the shipwreck was fantastic. Lots of great visuals--you see them hooking ropes up, but still...Jenn goes from standing to ascending up to a spider's web and her dress comes out to form the web.
And the cast is really great. Josh is awesome--talks deeper(good thing), has a good voice, and has to go back and forth between talking and acting normal to his gorilla family and acting all weird around the humans. A couple of times he was supposed to be walking around, sniffing things, so he'd just sniff forward into the audience...which resulted in him being right in front of me and sniffing. It was kind of odd.
Jenn is adorable as always. She has a great English accent.
And the flying is cool IMO. Chester...damn...he swings in at one point, swinging upside-down. He said once you get used to it, it's not that hard, but it looked f*ckin painful. Seemed to be fun times when they started on the swings, but now it's easy. Near the end, some were swinging directly to me, I sat back b/c I thought I was gonna get kicked. Ooh, and then some of the monkeys run in and jump on the stage. I was in the aisle seat so I was next to them, and the last one definitely semi-jumped over me. It was a girl though, so it wouldn't have been exciting if she fell on me. Oh well.
So yeah, just figured I'd post some thoughts b/c I remember a lot of us discussing wanting to see the show and stuff. I definitely want to go back, but...that damn rush line.
Ooh, and I've never been in the Richard Rodgers theatre. Weird stadium seating. In the back of the orch, I felt like I was in main reserve at Yankee stadium--everyone's right, from all the way up, you can see maybe 1/3 of the stage.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli