THE LITTLE MERMAID - First Preview - 11/3/07- Page 6

[chad2]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 11:17pm

I will call and try to change. If not, I'll put them up on craigslist. I have done this before, it is like throwing money away!

[Glory]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:27am

so i called ticketmaster for the hell of it because ticketmaster.com said the 21st night is sold out. and the rep. had 2 tickets in the mezz. row D seat 8 and row B seat 8 for 81.50. so i snatched them up AND I'M SO EXCITED NOW!! Young Frankenstein in the day and this at night. I hope it's as great as everyone says it is.


ps does anyone think because htose are all the way to the right, that it will be a problem? Updated On: 11/6/07 at 11:27 AM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:40am

some posts in this thread are frightening me...

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:46am

I was in M 8 in the mezz for the first preview and the view was totally fine.

Munk, I hope my posts aren't frightening you because I enjoyed the show...

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 12:01pm

No, WAT, it has nothing to do with your review of the show at all.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 12:13pm

Thanks. I do hope you enjoy it when you go see it.

[caitlinette]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 3:51pm

Sierra is great, but that skirt has to go.

I'm not fond of it either, but what else could she wear?

[Elphie3]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 3:59pm

So many things! I wouldn't even mind if it were JUST a skirt - it would look like she was swimming vertically. (And make it easier to fly her). I don't even mind the concept they're using right now - it just seems so poorly exicuted.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 4:06pm

I would prefer something a lot less distracting. If you just pay attention to her upper body and back tail, it makes for a very cool effect. The skit really seems to detract.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 4:11pm

I agree. I LOVE "The Little Mermaid" - I AM Ariel - but a lot of things about this production have me REALLY worried!

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 8:05pm

How does Ursala die? And how do they transform Aerial?

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 8:54pm

Bumpin'. Ain't. Easy.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:26pm

Went to the box office tonight to get another few tickets, and it was packed !!!

Did a search for a friend at work today-- she needed (4) tix (rear mezz) for a Saturday--- either mat or evening. Soonest they had was April !

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:34pm

It seems like a different solution to the skirt/tail costume could have been reached. Perhaps having the bottom half of the skirt be a different material than the tail itself, so as not to make Ariel look like she is some kind of conjoined mermaid.
It just seems like the costume (the way it is now) is not much more than one of the rejected ideas from the theme park show.

[westcoast_wannabe]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 12:18am

The skirt should be blue so it looks like water. I havn't seen the show so maybe it looks better on stage, but from the pictures I've seen it almost looks like she has two tails. I would think it would work better if the tail was green and the skirt was made to look like water.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 12:34am

That's what I was thinking. The skirt should blend in with the scenery.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 12:59am

Or just make her legs her tail like they do in every other incarnation.

I don't know - but there's something about having a tale that is inhibiting when compaired with how a human moves on land. there should be a big change in how she moves between the two world. It seems to similar now.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 10:43am

Its ok-- as soon as she starts to sing "Part Of Your World", you will forget about the costume-

She might as well be wearing an aqua garbage bag- wouldnt matter !! :))

[Ready 2 Defy Gravity]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 2:08pm

How does Ursala die?

[caitlinette]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 5:19pm

The skirt should blend in with the scenery.

But not all of the scenery is one color.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 5:55pm

There has to be a better solution than what she is wearing. Honestly though-if it hasn't changed by now, it won't change by opening night. They still have Flounder in a T-Shirt for God's sake!
I can't wait to see the reviews!

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 7:53pm

"Thomas Schumacher came out at the beginning of Act 1 to give a speech saying that one of the set pieces wasn't working, so they were going to leave it out. I didn't realize what the set piece was until I asked a cast member at the stage door...there was this corkscrew-like circulating set piece on the left of the stage during a few numbers that rotated and had cast members on top of it with their elaborate costumes...apparently there was supposed to be a matching one on the other side."

Is this it??

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 8:52pm

It all sounds God-awful to me.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 12:29am

Based on what, Ed? I believe most of the people that reviewed the show after the first preview (or couple of previews) really liked it.

I overheard someone tonight at "August" saying that he loved it, and that there were a lot of changes made since he saw it in Denver.

[clarkstallings]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 1:45am

I don't think that "Disney On Broadway" should be a curse word. While they are a profit driven corporation, most of their shows have been passable, and one even excellent (Mary Poppins.) However, I'm amazed at the amount of postive notice this show's receiving on this board. If you liked it, I'm glad. How someone could really have many great things to say about it though is beyond me. When I entered the theatre and saw that hideous black show curtain, sprinkled with the color changing plankton, I knew I was in for something interesting. Interesting it was and not in a good way. The staging was unengaging. Most of the costumes didn't even suggest the creatures they were trying to convey. Flounder had fins on his t-shirt, but flotsam and jetsam looked nothing like eels. They looked like dinosaurs because of the way their tails draped. The fact of the matter is, this show should not have happened in its current form. Many people reviled Michael Eisner, particuarly during the end of his Disney tenure, however, as a theatre lover, he shut AIDA down in Atlanta, fired the director and designers, hired a new creative team, and took the time needed to fix the show. That should have happened in Denver but it didn't. Quite frankly, if I were Alan Menken, I would feel most frustrated that a personal musical masterpiece is going to have a tarnished stage reputation because it got lumped in with the other elements of this slatternly show.