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CHILLING!

Sorry y'all but that's not the original key of Ab. I checked just to make sure and that is in G. She still sounds fabuloua anyway, and in reality yeah this song is WAY easier on the voice in G. Only the last 30 seconds or so is odd as it sits more in the passagio, but 90% of it is easier in G. Which is sad because we all know Caissie could do this in Ab, there's still no full recording of her doing the end in that key.

And that ending is almost the same as the ending on the cruise ship production, so it didn't take me entirely be surprise.

I'm stunned! That was amazing beyond words. Such an active crowd too!

I never said the audience wasn't into it. What they're responding to is the cape flying away, just like at DCA, and the costume change. Elsa is standing in the middle of the stage and the Coronation costume gets pulled into the floor revealing a sparkly dress, very much like the one seen in the movie. And then she lets her hair down into the single braid look. (In Act 2, Elsa isn't in that dress, but something that looks like lingerie.)

10086Sundays said: "I never said the audience wasn't into it. What they're responding to is the cape flying away, just like at DCA, and the costume change. Elsa is standing in the middle of the stage and the Coronation costume gets pulled into the floor revealing a sparkly dress, very much like the one seen in the movie. And then she lets her hair down into the single braid look. (In Act 2, Elsa isn't in that dress, but something that looks like lingerie.)



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Thanks for the description. How was the response to the show overall? Was it more polite applause at the end, or was it more receptive? I know this is an opening night crowd that will be more forgiving to a work-in-progress... but just curious if the crowd seemed to dig it, or if it was more muted.

a-mad said: "How was the response to the show overall? Was it more polite applause at the end, or was it more receptive? I know this is an opening night crowd that will be more forgiving to a work-in-progress... but just curious if the crowd seemed to dig it, or if it was more muted. "

All the movie based moments hit big of course, it was a mixed bag for the rest between nothing and an average amount of reaction. Immediate standing ovation and big applause at the end. I think it'll be similar on Broadway. I just keep thinking of the DCA show where the audience would sometimes boo Hans' evil reveal, nothing like that here. But maybe other audiences will. I was honestly surprised at how quiet an audience full of kids was. Don't know if that's good or bad.

Updated On: 8/18/17 at 12:22 PM

Someone posted a couple more songs on tumblr if you search "patti murin" or "frozen broadway". Two of the songs are new including "dangerous to dream" and then they also have for the first time in forever and love is an open door

I'm stunned in the best possible way.

Geez they didn't even change the lyrics in FTiF that SHOULD have been changed. Lingerie? Oh dear...there's literally no need for her to have more than one "ice dress"....let alone one that looks like that. And found some more tumblr short reviews that mention the parents die when they're still children...HOW does this help? Honestly in the fictional world you can't literally isolate characters like or that much, it means they have NO working relationship therefore no forward moving story...plus seeing them as teenagers and grieving together but separately, especially Elsa, was the only thing in that movie that actually can make me cry in any way, and now that's gone. Also....Who rules for 12-13 years in her stead??

I'm curious how the final blizzard was staged...that scene worries the hell of out me, scene like that work on film one, but they do not work on stage at all, they're plain awkward and come off terribly.

Also just hit me. No "burns' for John. I know it's little thing, but having them makes him feel less modern and like he belongs in that era.

Updated On: 8/18/17 at 02:04 PM

EvanK said: "I wonder what happened before the end of For the First Time in Forever that elicited that audience response?!"



The Reddit guy told me that the Duke does a funny once during FTFTIF, but I seriously doubt that would be it. I'm guessing Hans appears or a gorgeous direction piece with Anna entering the kingdom.

JennH said: "Geez they didn't even change the lyrics in FTiF that SHOULD have been changed. Lingerie? Oh dear...there's literally no need for her to have more than one "ice dress"....let alone one that looks like that."

It's weird that Elsa gets two dresses in this. I know I condemn the naked part in Oaken's song (the Reddit guy told me that part was one of his favorite parts in the musical). but I do strangely see the lingerie dress work, depending on how it looks. She is an ice queen after all. I see it looking beautiful. I do think the movie blue dress is honestly boring.

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "JennH said: "I wasn't able to listen to the rest of the songs on that tumblr, but it seems they're already taken down. I literally as listening to FTiF on the train with the intent to listen to rest when I got home, and went to the same page and it's all gone...like it's completely different page.



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It's still there for me. I'll pm you the page



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Thanks :) But that's weird, it's not even the same page...it's totally different profile and web address...Oh well, I get to listen. So they cut Heimr Arnadalr with D to D in it's place....D to D is quite nice actually, but I feel like it's be better as a stand alone song rather than an internal monologue, because the Heir Arnadalr chorus was my FAVORITE and it added to the coronation scene very well and added lot of cultural flavor. It seems the thing that needed changing weren't changed and the things that didn't need it...WERE changed. Oi...

Updated On: 8/18/17 at 02:24 PM

Re: Lyric changes- I don't know the movie lyrics enough to be able to tell you that, sorrry. Although I have watched Josh Gad's appearance on James Corden's show enough that it felt odd not to hear their made-up lyrics.

Elsa's Act 2 dress looked like a blueish-purple slip with a white, shear dressing gown over it.

At the end of FtFTiF, the walls just turn to make the doors of Elsa's bedroom into the palace doors. The palace is rather darkly lit. As I recall, the cheering was because the doors open and townspeople start entering, as does the Duke and Hans. The Duke does lead a brief tango style number, but I thought it was after Love Is An Open Door. I could be misremembering, it's used as another transition.

Yes, the parents die. when the girls are young. There is no teenage phase. You go from the young girls to Caissie and Patti. The opening number is all about how much Anna and Elsa love each other. I think that's the issue with some of the new stuff, especially in the beginning. It's a lot of telling, not showing. The narrator is really not needed.

Hans mentions that he's the 13th son from the southern isle about 100 times. It's seriously almost all he says in the show. I get foreshadowing, this was just too much.

Updated On: 8/18/17 at 02:56 PM

Or at least give Elsa the 11o'clock number.