FROZEN cast performs on GMA — Page 3

ChgoTheatreGuy said: "The other thing that I found especially disturbing was the staging, it seems that it you are not exactly at the correct place to the special effect movements, you have the potential to lose limbs or possibly skin. I've seen better staging and costume reveals on "Drag Race"..."

How would someone lose skin or limbs from a dress change???

I meant to say that the Ticket will tighten up after they do their number on the Tony Awards. Im starting to notice that people are paying up for good seats on the secondary market and that wasn't the case the last couple months. The show actually looks pretty good. Im getting good feedback from many avid Theatre Goers. I think things are changing for the better with this show, Go Frozen !!!

I havent seen the show, but, are any scenes with Elsa set in her ice castle? I dont get that impression (except maybe the one where Anna comes and tries to convince her to come home) so if there isnt one, why go to the expense of a huge ice castle coming up out of the stage for just 2 minutes of stage time?

Disney chose to showcase the two best and only numbers worth buying a ticket for on ABC.

It will sell tickets for sure because the numbers were familiar and thrilling. That said, for those here who have not seen the show, don't. Other than these numbers the rest is an expensive nap, especially for the children. I can watch Caissie sing Let it Go over and over again now, without sitting through another two hours of complete boredom.



Also, the show doesn't need an ice castle. Let it Go is good enough as it is. The other parts of the show are what need something to keep our attention.

RippedMan said: "If you look at Grandage's past, this all makes sense. This is what he does. Dark and moody. I don't think he was the director for this."

I know he was doing Mean Girls at the time but Casey Nicholaw would have been perfect to direct and choreograph this show.

Times are really changing when people would rather literally see a theme park show, with a CGI castle and a big ass staircase, on a Broadway stage, instead of an artistic, theatrical interpretation. It's bad enough that the crowd basically drowns out Caissie from the quick change to the end of the number - when I sat in the audience, I could barely hear her from that point on - and now you want throw other stuff onto the stage? It's supposed to be about her. Audiences can figure out what's going on and audiences seem just fine with it.

Did I like the show? No. Did everyone go to intermission on a huge high? Absolutely. To me, that's job done.

Updated On: 6/1/18 at 10:01 PM

Ugh, Disney had all of the money to do Timbers’s Direction. I smell something fishy. Just so shameful that the producers took away the show’s greatest potential to be the new Wicked.

And this scene still has potential to be knocked out of the park. But the curtains ruin it!

Still excited for the show with a open mind

Updated On: 6/10/18 at 12:43 PM

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Ugh, Disney had all of the money to do Timbers’s Direction. I smell something fishy.Just so shameful that the producers took away the show’s greatest potential to be the new Wicked.

And this scene still has potential to be knocked out of the park. But the curtains ruin it!

Still excited for the show with a open mind

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Disney did have all the money to do it. Disney has the money to put on Timber's production in every single Broadway house and not even feel the hit in their wallet. But Bob Iger has the personality and artistic integrity of wet cardboard (and I can say that through personal experience).

Think about it by looking at Walt Disney World: The last great attraction, where artistic integrity/innovation/magic were combined, was Tower of Terror. Over 20 years ago. One could argue Expedition: Everest is a great attraction but Disney has let the attraction sit with it's signature show scene broken almost since the ride opened (don't let the lie that the Yeti animatronic cannot be taken out of the mountain to be fixed fool you. Disney just refuses to shut down the ride to spend the money to fix it... they don't mind using the moving Yeti animatronic in their current Disney Parks advertising or commercials, though). Now, what do the new attractions look like? Toy Story Land, a cheap hodgepodge of common fair rides. That says it all. Disney knows it will make money regardless, they don't give a sh!t about quality. And until the public stops blindly snorting all the pixie dust Disney lines up in front of them, Disney will continue this way.

It's also worth nothing that a Tony Award winner who has worked for Disney has said the following (and i'm paraphrasing): “Disney Theatrical underbelly was the Dark Side made terrifying real…. like Eyes Wide Shut.”

The Corporate Culture of Disney is toxic and the Disney that a lot of people grew to love through the 1990's is gone... and I don't think it's coming back. Unless the public, in masses, stops consuming a Walmart quality product for a Saks Fifth Avenue price.

Updated On: 6/10/18 at 02:21 PM

Sondheimite said: "Alex Timbers was really really really going do something big with this show. Bigger, in scope, than what Julie did with Lion King. Even if you didn't like Frozen's music/book, it would have been hard to not be knocked over in awe of what Alex did with it.

Disney didn't want to pay the money. It's the same way Disney has been in their theme parks for over ten years"

I think that whoever was responsible for firing Timbers must have really regretted their desicion after 'Frozen, failed to gain ANY technical nominations. Disney took it for granted that Frozen would receive recognition in the technical categories (Even 'Tarzan' and 'The Little Mermaid' were nominated for Best Lighting Design!) but that complacency really backfired.

A production as elaborate and expensive as ''Frozen' will be judged by far higher standards. Michael Grandage's safe, projection-heavy approach turned out to be a bad idea...