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Mall Fries
May. 2nd, 2015 12:42 pmI am at the mall on a Saturday. Sitting at a table. Eating mall food.
This atypical activity is because the first showing of AAoU was sold out when I got to the theater. I was supposed to have arrived a half hour before, but I overslept, and the best I could do was hurry to the next bus. Luckily, L got my message, got her ticket and her seat. She also got my message when I found out it had sold out.
I wasn't the only dufus. There was a group of guys waiting for friends who were discussing whether they could trade their tickets for a later show, because part of their group also arrived late. The early show is the cheapest one, but even on opening weekend, there usually isn't a problem getting in. That said, I don't usually walk up less than 15 minutes to start time.
But, other than the obvious screw up, it was OK. I got a ticket to Home, a Dreamworks animated film, and I enjoyed it for what it was. And I didn't have to sit through previews! I walked in to the nearly empty theater just as the feature started.
Home was no great shakes. It tries. I would say that it misses the pitch to the intended audience. As with Bluesky's Epic, the kids were not engaged. But as a fan of animated works, I enjoyed it. I even laughed at some of the jokes. The main character is lovely, a 7th grade girl from Barbados, but voiced by Rianna and with a script that underwhelmed, she doesn't sparkle. Oh, and his people are very niced animated, but their character design leaves something to be desired.
The cat steals the show. However, what cat would accept being named Pig? Must be short for something, as Tip was short for Gratuity. She was a Calico, else I might suggest Pygmalion. Maybe Pigment?
I told Varina8 and Scarletinna that I would write up Phantom of the Opera, which I was on my way to seeing yesterday when they caught me at the bus stop. But I'm still grieving. It was so heartbreaking that I watched the 2004 movie (coffeedaiv had not seen it) to help with the process.
I can and even praise many aspects of the restaging. My largest complaint is that the scenery now carries the show. The three actors of the love triangle, focal to PotO, had no chemistry at all. They seemed to lack a basic ability to emote. At least the movie cast had that, however melodramatically and ridiculously.
How does that happen? And Raoul kept upstaging himself. He leads with his right foot. Some others turned their shoulders to the audience, too, but he did it in almost every group scene.
I can't forgive that the blackening of Raoul's character, in order to foreshadow LND characterization, destroys the sense that R actually loves C. The story -- not to mention a major song -- makes almost no sense that way. It requires a much greater acting ability to convey R in a way that would work. This is not a show written for subtleity.
Sigh.
This atypical activity is because the first showing of AAoU was sold out when I got to the theater. I was supposed to have arrived a half hour before, but I overslept, and the best I could do was hurry to the next bus. Luckily, L got my message, got her ticket and her seat. She also got my message when I found out it had sold out.
I wasn't the only dufus. There was a group of guys waiting for friends who were discussing whether they could trade their tickets for a later show, because part of their group also arrived late. The early show is the cheapest one, but even on opening weekend, there usually isn't a problem getting in. That said, I don't usually walk up less than 15 minutes to start time.
But, other than the obvious screw up, it was OK. I got a ticket to Home, a Dreamworks animated film, and I enjoyed it for what it was. And I didn't have to sit through previews! I walked in to the nearly empty theater just as the feature started.
Home was no great shakes. It tries. I would say that it misses the pitch to the intended audience. As with Bluesky's Epic, the kids were not engaged. But as a fan of animated works, I enjoyed it. I even laughed at some of the jokes. The main character is lovely, a 7th grade girl from Barbados, but voiced by Rianna and with a script that underwhelmed, she doesn't sparkle. Oh, and his people are very niced animated, but their character design leaves something to be desired.
The cat steals the show. However, what cat would accept being named Pig? Must be short for something, as Tip was short for Gratuity. She was a Calico, else I might suggest Pygmalion. Maybe Pigment?
I told Varina8 and Scarletinna that I would write up Phantom of the Opera, which I was on my way to seeing yesterday when they caught me at the bus stop. But I'm still grieving. It was so heartbreaking that I watched the 2004 movie (coffeedaiv had not seen it) to help with the process.
I can and even praise many aspects of the restaging. My largest complaint is that the scenery now carries the show. The three actors of the love triangle, focal to PotO, had no chemistry at all. They seemed to lack a basic ability to emote. At least the movie cast had that, however melodramatically and ridiculously.
How does that happen? And Raoul kept upstaging himself. He leads with his right foot. Some others turned their shoulders to the audience, too, but he did it in almost every group scene.
I can't forgive that the blackening of Raoul's character, in order to foreshadow LND characterization, destroys the sense that R actually loves C. The story -- not to mention a major song -- makes almost no sense that way. It requires a much greater acting ability to convey R in a way that would work. This is not a show written for subtleity.
Sigh.