Went pumpkin picking with G at Sauvie's Island yesterday. Found ourselves some nice heavy, muddy ones to hoist back to the car with aching arms (after the hay ride tractor mysteriously stops doing its circuit). For some reason, I found myself attracted to a basket at the "farmer's market"-y store. ...What's up with that? I don't particularly like baskets. But this one needed to come home with me. Really, I just don't get it.
G was feeling ill when we got home. Again, don't know why. Maybe the hot cider? She almost had to bail on going to see "Little Shop of Horrors", which would have sucked.
But went we did. Sadly, it was a really tepid production. The actors didn't seem to be bothering to act. They seemed to just be plowing through their lines without any sense of timing or emotion. The choreography was just bad: chicken dance, I tell ya. And the orchestra pit and the singers didn't always seem to sync up quite right. Meh.
But I didn't go for the quality of the performance, now did I? I went to see the plant. The plant was nicely done, construction wise. Shapely, colorful. The puppetry was poor, though. Really bad lip syncing, and not opening the mouth wide enough most of the time -- visually, it looked like the plant was mumbling.
The fourth stage of the plant, though, *was* impressive. The pod was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and it was on hydrolics, so it could lift the characters up ten feet in the air while chewing them. That was cool. ...Yet, it still just didn't flow. The mouth stuttered as it moved; which, I have a hunch, might be the reason why the doors opened a full half hour late.
That last big plant -- I'm sad to say that it left me feeling like I watching an animatronic show at Disneyland or MGM studios. I didn't feel like I was watching theater so much as a poor reenactment of a movie at a theme park.
Oh, and here's my one really scathing remark:
Hello, Broadway? I want you to stop letting singers stop the music in order to go "wo-o-o-o-oah" with their voice. Yes, we know you can sing. But those supposed pop divas that you're emulating -- trying to show off what you can do with your voice? ...It's really embarassing. You're emulating something that's crappy in the first place. And it detracts from the show. Stop it now. Really. NOW.
G was feeling ill when we got home. Again, don't know why. Maybe the hot cider? She almost had to bail on going to see "Little Shop of Horrors", which would have sucked.
But went we did. Sadly, it was a really tepid production. The actors didn't seem to be bothering to act. They seemed to just be plowing through their lines without any sense of timing or emotion. The choreography was just bad: chicken dance, I tell ya. And the orchestra pit and the singers didn't always seem to sync up quite right. Meh.
But I didn't go for the quality of the performance, now did I? I went to see the plant. The plant was nicely done, construction wise. Shapely, colorful. The puppetry was poor, though. Really bad lip syncing, and not opening the mouth wide enough most of the time -- visually, it looked like the plant was mumbling.
The fourth stage of the plant, though, *was* impressive. The pod was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and it was on hydrolics, so it could lift the characters up ten feet in the air while chewing them. That was cool. ...Yet, it still just didn't flow. The mouth stuttered as it moved; which, I have a hunch, might be the reason why the doors opened a full half hour late.
That last big plant -- I'm sad to say that it left me feeling like I watching an animatronic show at Disneyland or MGM studios. I didn't feel like I was watching theater so much as a poor reenactment of a movie at a theme park.
Oh, and here's my one really scathing remark:
Hello, Broadway? I want you to stop letting singers stop the music in order to go "wo-o-o-o-oah" with their voice. Yes, we know you can sing. But those supposed pop divas that you're emulating -- trying to show off what you can do with your voice? ...It's really embarassing. You're emulating something that's crappy in the first place. And it detracts from the show. Stop it now. Really. NOW.
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