Saw the tour this week in Vancouver, and wanted to share some thoughts.
Obviously Frozen is not high art, and I understand that… but honestly, this may be one of the best shows to come through town. And I mean that from a wow factor perspective. We get a lot of non-equity or downscaled tours, so to get a show of this scale is actually pretty exciting - especially after the Mean Girls tour we recently had, oof.
Probably one of the most impressive set, lighting, and projection designs I’ve seen. The audience around me were audibly gasping throughout.
The sound was perfect, I understood every word. Ensemble was tight, and sounded fantastic. But the leads? My god. The vocals are sublime. Caroline is a tour de force, and you would never be able to tell she has been doing it so long. It was a beautiful, nuanced, and poignant performance. She did riffs and opt ups I had not heard before in Let it Go, and I’ve never heard a Vancouver audience scream so loud during a blackout.
Great spectacle, great vocals, a really fun time. Not high art, but heck… sometimes you just want a big broadway spectacle.