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Posted: 7/30/12 at 12:02am
Saw the world premiere production of Moonshadow a new musical by Cat Stevens in Melbourne Australia yesterday.
Where to begin? Point form might be the best.
: Moonshadow is a seven foot blue dwarf (?) who wears a half moon mask.
: The show is full of so many WTF moments, Including a 60's Hair love in, a bubble machine that showers the stalls in bubbles and glitter, a rip off of the queen from Tommy and We Will Rock You!
: More Jazz hands and sparkle fingers, than a full Fosse concert, a rap dancing scene that uses sparkle fingers as the highlight.
: A dead bird that is given as a gift, and than kept for most of the show!
: Costumes that have been left over or stolen from Rocky Horror.
: A story that makes no sense what so ever, at one point it looked like the Flash Gordon movie from the early 80's
: Video Projections, some which worked, most did not.
: The show ended with a few Cat Stevens songs that could not be worked into the story.
: A voice over that needed to fill in some of the plot points!
: Some of Cats songs worked really well, advance the scene. Most where random.
Cast wise, Gemma-Ashley Kaplan was the stand out ( someone give this young lady the lead in Evita! )
Did I have fun, of course! This was a train wreck with each new scene topping the last in moments of what where they thinking. Theatre was 90 per cent full, show closes next Sunday.
Where to begin? Point form might be the best.
: Moonshadow is a seven foot blue dwarf (?) who wears a half moon mask.
: The show is full of so many WTF moments, Including a 60's Hair love in, a bubble machine that showers the stalls in bubbles and glitter, a rip off of the queen from Tommy and We Will Rock You!
: More Jazz hands and sparkle fingers, than a full Fosse concert, a rap dancing scene that uses sparkle fingers as the highlight.
: A dead bird that is given as a gift, and than kept for most of the show!
: Costumes that have been left over or stolen from Rocky Horror.
: A story that makes no sense what so ever, at one point it looked like the Flash Gordon movie from the early 80's
: Video Projections, some which worked, most did not.
: The show ended with a few Cat Stevens songs that could not be worked into the story.
: A voice over that needed to fill in some of the plot points!
: Some of Cats songs worked really well, advance the scene. Most where random.
Cast wise, Gemma-Ashley Kaplan was the stand out ( someone give this young lady the lead in Evita! )
Did I have fun, of course! This was a train wreck with each new scene topping the last in moments of what where they thinking. Theatre was 90 per cent full, show closes next Sunday.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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