Frozen the Musical Review
Expectation management is an important life skill so, given that I hadn't terribly liked the film, finding the music repetitive and a bit annoying, I came into the stage version of Frozen not counting on being blown away. And I was right. Mirroring an issue I have felt in several Disney film-to-stage musical adaptations, the new material inserted to increase the run time brought nothing innovative or interesting. Instead of fleshing out the characters and storyline, all we had was longer/more musical numbers, mostly either foreshadowing or partially reprising pre-existing songs. When you have already heard the melody of Let It Go from the very start, the number loses its punch, methinks, and this is but one of several examples. The tone of the show was also off for me. While I understand it's very much aimed at children, the opportunity to engage adult audiences was completely missed. If you think of Lion King, for instance, the stage show has lifted the source material, deepen...