Anyone going to see Wonderland this week? — Page 8

are you familiar with "concept" and "workshop" musicals? the hard and fast rules you have invented may be comforting and a good way to sort varied info...but they are not all inclusive. Many shows have had many versions of librettos, granted usually over years of revivals....CANDIDE, ANYTHING GOES, CAMELOT, MACK & MABEL....who cares how many actual drafts, how does that matter? try to resist seeing things in hierarchies that don't address a particular situation...."this musical is worse than that musical because THIS musical has four distinct librettos and THAT musical only had two...." such logic is not helpful in analysis.

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And Never Jam Today

Mikki Grant's Alice. It flopped.

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My problems with the show is there is no conflict early on with Alice and her husband. I would have liked the conflict to be there and that her daughter winds up in wonderland and that Alice has to go back there to find her and deal with her own life conflicts. My other issue is that she meets the caterpillar way to soon when getting there.

I love the cast and I do love the music. Although unlike in other Wildhorn musicals there is not a big anthem song. I love the second act and the first act if they work on it could work.

Most of all for me i did enjoy the White Knights in those tight pants LOL.

I think it was you (or someone else) who wrote about the show not having any conflict earlier in this thread. But, didn't Chloe sing about the tension between her two parents in the first song of the show? I thought that conflict was explained right away

Hi "SupportTheater"! I registered just cuz I too only saw hate after landing here as I randomly searched google for people who loved Wonderland but hated Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. But I am not a regular theatre going person, no, I'm just you're average middle American TV watching non-theatre-buff person who occasionally and inexplicably winds up posting on a board that even some over at allthatchat haven't heard of.

LOL!

Call me crazy, but I saw Wonderland last night and i kinda liked it. I go to the theater to be entertained and though the show has some troubles it was overall an enjoyable evening.
The production numbers were great. Especially enjoyed the boy-band One Knight number...choregraphy was hysterical. Tea Party scene was stunning. Biggest suprise for me was the talent of Kate Shindle. This was my first time seeing her on stage and in my opinion she steals the entire show. When she belted out I Will Prevail at the beginning of Act 2 the entire audience was blown away. Agree with some other posters that she understands the campiness of the material.
I thought the staging and use of projections was interesting and I found the show visually appealing. Costumes fantastic.
Thought the score was good not great. I liked Home, I Will Prevail, and I am My Own Invention.
My main issues were with Janet Ducal. Her performance just didn't strike me as a leading actress. Her singing also sounded "off" to me at many points in the show. Not alot of power in her voice. Some of her songs seemed to be begging for more delivery.
The book also has some problems. I am a little biased as I have been a fan of Alice in Wonderland since childhood and I enjoy the story in any reincarnation. I thought the story was a nice twist. I was OK until half way through Act 2 when every major plot issue was magically resolved in ten minutes. i understand that it's fantasy, but it was kinda cheesy.
Audeince reaction was mixed. I brought my daughter who said it was OK she liked the production numbers but she was a little bored. Heard many people at intermission commenting that the show wasn't that good. I still thought it was an enjoyable show and I certainly have seen numerous shows that were trainwrecks compared to this. I also went because I am tired of seeing shows that are movies on stage. At least this one was original.
I realize I am in the minority on this one, but I'm glad I at least gave the show a look. God bless TDF.

Ok, call me nuts as well, but I had a good time.... Ok, the book needs work (or ...NEEDED work), and its very corny--- but, for my TDF tic price, was worth it-

And as much as I love Janet, really want to see Morgan James as Alice-- Heard her sing "Wonderland at "Birdland" and she was amazing !!!

i could easily be mistaken, but it seems as if before Alice falls asleep on Chloe's bed she glances through the storybook the Grandmother had been reading from...or maybe it wasn't ALICE but that would make sense to me. A time honored cliche from TV/movies where a character is reading or sees a form of an alternative world and then dreams they enter it....not BRILL but enough of a reason for our protagonist to carry her internal conflicts we've already heard about from the daughter and mother in law her into the alternate reality. And let's face, aren't we ahead of her already? why spend time detailing she's going on her own ADVENTURES that take her THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS? if kids are out there who haven't read it or seen another form of it, they might be inspired to do so. No harm, no foul.

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I love the idea of Chloe leaving her clues in the book.

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Even some of the worst shows ever have fans. Remember that!

Have any audios surfaced yet from the bway production. Still wanna hear I will prevail again. :)

"people have to be told to stand up at the curtain call. "

What?

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