Saw it last night and went in with a really open mind... I actually enjoyed it. I got more of a Spamalot feel to it where it was the movie but from a different angle. I also liked how they threw Zorro in there, and bashed Rent with Nessie going over the moon and the Lion King reference. HILARIOUS!
The only song I remotely remember was the Freak on song. John T did a great job.
But they need to really work on the sound because there were times where I could barely hear/understand Daniel Breaker.
But other colleagues and myself got scared when we saw the herd of like 3 kids classes coming in through the lobby but they were actually well behaved.
There was a kid in the 2nd Act that started to scream and cry and I felt like I was in Sunday Mass...
I'm a little bit mixed on the Dragon though... I'd be curious to hear it with the one woman singing. But I did like how they operated the Dragon with the eyes blinking, half opened and winking!
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
