Postby KeithS » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:25 am
Okay, I finally got to see HSM - On Stage last night and...
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It was REALLY good!
That's right, I'm admitting it (and providing fodder for Anthony following my "Beaches" comments)
I went in with pretty low expectations, considering it was a cast of Australian and New Zealand unknowns. But the entire cast were excellent, the routines were amazingly choreographed, the singing was particularly good, and the show was just pure entertainment.
The show pretty much followed the storyline of the movie with a few Disney inside jokes thrown in.
Yep - I had baulked at the ticket price - as had MANY others as the theatre was only half full (they hadn't even opened the upstairs section - unheard of in a Sydney Disney production) but in the end, I felt I got my monies worth.
My one gripe and note to Disney - just because your ticket prices are high, it doesn't mean people from Western Sydney can't afford to go to the show - so drop the patronising "Rooty Hill" joke - it wasn't funny and was inappropriately placed in the show about an American High School - you had a good story, and didn't need to instill some Australianism into it - it made it a little 'cheap'
Keith
Trip history:
DLR: 2005, 06, 09, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18
DLRP: 2006
HKDL: 2006 (Mar & Sept), 11 (Apr & Dec), 14, 19
SDR: 2017
TDR: 2008, 10, 17
WDW: 2006, 13 (Mar & Sept), 16, 19
DCL: 2013, 15 (Alaska & Hawaii), 18
Aulani: 2015