Saturday, September 15, 2012

Peter and the Starcatcher

 Sigh, I just love this show. So inventive. Even if you're not a Peter Pan fan, you can at least admire the imagination going on stage during this show. I took my husband and cousin (Aaron HATES Peter Pan with a passion and it literally took me all summer to get him to agree to come) for some fun theater. Even he had to agree that the prop-age on stage was amazing. Sometimes the props were in fact people and not things. This is my first time seeing the show after having read the book and it was nice to know exactly who the characters were this time. The first 20 minutes go by so fast, not to mention there are no microphones, the funny accents, and out of towner theater goers who insist on talking over the dialogue.
 The opener of act 2 (Starstuff Mermaid song) was so much easier to watch after reading the book. For some reason, the first time I saw the show, I just thought it was a fun mermaid number that the pirates decided to put on, not actual mermaids. Yeah, don't ask me why I thought that...
The only cast member that was different this time around was Black Stache, but he didn't disappoint. My cousin was laughing hysterically over all his antics, and the Smee continued to compliment his partner. Aaron pointed out that Peter is quite a boring part in this show, and that the writing just begs for you to side with Black Stache!

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