Weekend update
Jul. 26th, 2004 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacFriday, wandered down to the Asilomar conference center near Monterey to surreptitiously pass time with some friends from LA who attend the annual west coast Oz conference there. If you remember your Oz geography, you will not be surprised that this gathering rejoices in the unfortunate name of Winkiecon. As an Ozophile I am pretty much a fakefan, but like most classic fakefans I'm there because I enjoy the company.
Sunday, B. and I attended the first area production of Seussical, put on by a summer theatre program for children aged 11-18. A lot of young enthusiasm and talent were on stage, as well as an amazing number of white girls named Vanessa. Dr. Seuss lives, and so does Dr. Swift.
We'd barely missed being in NYC at the right time for the premiere of this musical on our last trip there four years ago, so seeing it completed a long-unresolved cadence. It turned out to be a bit overlong, but otherwise better than its reviews. It's built around the plot of Horton Hears a Who with various other Seuss books from If I Ran the Circus to The Butter Battle Book shoved in edgewise, all emceed by a character who claimed to be the Cat in the Hat, though I tended to doubt it. Trying to have Horton hatch the egg at the same time that he's hearing the Whos didn't make a lot of plot sense, but having these Whos be the same Whos from whom the Grinch stole Christmas did work, so it came out OK in the wash.
And how often do you get to see a musical whose opening number has the cast on stage waving around book covers?
Sunday, B. and I attended the first area production of Seussical, put on by a summer theatre program for children aged 11-18. A lot of young enthusiasm and talent were on stage, as well as an amazing number of white girls named Vanessa. Dr. Seuss lives, and so does Dr. Swift.
We'd barely missed being in NYC at the right time for the premiere of this musical on our last trip there four years ago, so seeing it completed a long-unresolved cadence. It turned out to be a bit overlong, but otherwise better than its reviews. It's built around the plot of Horton Hears a Who with various other Seuss books from If I Ran the Circus to The Butter Battle Book shoved in edgewise, all emceed by a character who claimed to be the Cat in the Hat, though I tended to doubt it. Trying to have Horton hatch the egg at the same time that he's hearing the Whos didn't make a lot of plot sense, but having these Whos be the same Whos from whom the Grinch stole Christmas did work, so it came out OK in the wash.
And how often do you get to see a musical whose opening number has the cast on stage waving around book covers?
