Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Peter Pan

I'm a HUGE Peter Pan fan. Not only the actual musical, but just the story in general. I always enjoyed Disney's version, Hook, Finding Neverland, and EVEN the erotic child one that came out in 2003. My parents even took me to see a production of it back when I was 3 and they said I was just so happy with glee at seeing Peter fly.

Unfortunately, this show was NOT that wonderful. Cathy is just too OLD. She's 59. She can still do the tricks which is great. I'd love to be able to do half the acrobatics at her age. But her vocals were strained sounding. Aaron said it best.

"Peter Pan sounded like Lucille 2." He's referring to Liza Minelli on Arrested Development. Yikes! The wires that helped them fly were great though. You couldn't even really see them. At the curtain call, however, she flies out over the audience and you can totally see her harness, the wires, and the freakin machine moving her over the audience. Not cool!
Our seats were HORRENDOUS! I bought the cheapest section (301) which came to $35 a person. But the actors were SO small. We couldn't even see facial expressions. At times, you couldn't even tell who was talking. Also, the costumes were horrible. You couldn't tell who was an indian, who was a lost boy, and who was a pirate. You should never have trouble figuring out those 3 types of characters.
In the end, Aaron didn't like it because it was a kid's show....and he was right. It IS a kid's show. But we both enjoyed the music and Aaron enjoyed Captain Hook!

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