This previous Thursday (February 20, 2014) I had the privilege to once again return to the Hobby Center for Performing Arts in Houston, Texas. My fiancé and I have a season subscription to the Gexa Energy Broadway in Houston. This show was Ghost the Musical based on the Patrick Swayze movie “Ghost.” I had heard that the visuals and illusion type effects were pretty awesome, so I had relatively high hopes for this production. The following is my not so in-depth review...
The Book of Mormon
The best way to describe my experience with the Book of Mormon musical is that it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting but not as good as I had been led to believe. With three Tony Awards (Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score) and a Grammy Award (Best Musical Theater Album) among all the critical acclaim, I was prepared for this show to be quite the performance. And in a way, I suppose it was...
Beauty and the Beast
A couple Sundays ago, September 30 to be exact, I was lucky enough to go see Disney's Beauty and the Beast Broadway musical at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas. I found it interesting to compare the lengths between the feature film, the Broadway musical and the show performed at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. The feature film would obviously be the standard, setting the pace for the story. The DHS version does a great job hitting the highlights, telling the story and giving you the music you would expect. The Broadway musical is like the feature film on steroids. You get the story, highlights, filler, music, more story and more music. If I were to sum the musical up in the form of one word, great!
The Lion King Musical
This past Tuesday, I had the privilege to go see The Lion King Broadway musical. Let me start off by saying that it was amazing. I absolutely loved it. The costumes, the props, lighting, stage design, everything was fantastic. If you haven't seen this musical, and you have the opportunity, definitely take the time to go see this production. Having grown up with Disney's The Lion King, I already knew what the story line was all about. Father and son, son destined to be king, jealous uncle, betrayal, exile, self-discovery, victorious return and rebirth. That pretty much sums up, at least from my perspective, what happens here...
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