Little Mermaid Review/Update- Page 3

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 1:26pm

haha- I heard about that! Well...at least it is improving, if not at a slow enough pace! Now, you can't see Ursula at all, so that's that problem fixed! And hey- so much for the "no wires" promise right? Oddly enough, I thought the wire bits were the best moments in the show.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 1:30pm

Wow, sounds lame. Is there good underscoring music? Does Sherie have lines she says offstage?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:21pm

"And hey- so much for the "no wires" promise right? Oddly enough, I thought the wire bits were the best moments in the show."

Same here. I especially liked Eric's sinking. That definitely elicited an "ooooohhh" from me.

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:29pm

So the ending does now include the behemoth Ursula, its just that she's offstage?

Wow... i'm just utterly confused. I have absolutely no idea how the ending of this show works anymore.

JUST STICK WITH THE FRIGGIN' MOVIE!

*deep breaths*

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:37pm

haha- No, she's not offstage. But she might as well be. As a part of the set, there is this giant ship (Eric's ship) that comes up and down from the rafters. In the final scene, Ariel and Erice are on the boat, fleeing from Ursula. The boat is so frickin' enormous, that Sherie, as Ursula, was blocked as she hovering in this weird little bubble thing upstage left. Now I assume she wasn't blocked from the whoooole audience, but sitting house center in the orchestra, I couldn't see her a bit. I also heard reports from a person at center mezz. who had trouble seeing her.

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:07pm

i gotta see this boat! anybody got a pic or drawing?

[candydog2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:45pm

Yeah, I'm still disappointed she doesn't turn into a giant-Ursula at the end. The "Elphaba's cherry picker" effect would have worked well for it too, kind of ironic as from what I've read she seems to "come and go by bubble!".

I know, it was lame but I couldn't resist.

Anyway, can someone explain this bubble thing she's in - I'm finding these costumes confusifying (last one I promise!).

And yeah - we need press release pictures!!! I assume they won't be out though until the critics are allowed in.

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:47pm

Thats an utter shame, because, from all the reports and reviews, Sherie is the sole-star and scene-stealer of thise production.

Why block her with a freakin' boat?! (Unless that boat is crashing into a 40 foot tall version of her, that is...!)

[roadmixer]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 6:42pm

FYI - The performance in question where Ursula was blocked by the boat had a significant scenic glitch. Of course it is not intentional that the boat cover Ursula.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 9:34pm

Must be a pretty serious scenic glitch, because I've heard of this happening at a performance about a week before I saw it as well.

Candydog: Ursula is weirdly attached to this odd bubble-like thing for most of the show. It's quite difficult to describe, but it is a black bubble, with a "convertible" cover, so as to hide whosoever goes inside. Sometimes, it functions just as a bubble, but during Ursula's first song, "Good Times", there are some of her tentacles protruding out of it. Which creates an odd effect when halfway through the number she steps away from it, leaving some of her tentacles behind...

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 12:23am

i have to say that even though people seem to be confused and at-odds with Tsypin's sets,...i love everything else that he has ever designed, and what people are describing sounds very interesting. I'll be very surprised if I don't like it...

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 9:20am

Prepare to be surprised.






(However, the waves are pretty neat.)