a night out
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cornerofmadnessI went to see The Last Oz Story put on at my college for well probably the first time anywhere seeing as our new music director did all the music and a local wrote the musical. It was very cute.
The basic premise is this. It starts with a Kansas twister done by interpretive dance. A reporter and her cameraman show up next and Dorothy stumbles into the scene looking for one of her silver slippers (this is based off book not movie). She’s lost it. She faints and ends up in the hospital that will make the frame for the rest of the story.
Naturally no one believes Dorothy when she wakes up and tells the doctor and social worker than she’s Dorothy Gale born in the 1880’s and doesn’t grasp when they tell her it’s the 21st century. The social worker and Dorothy particularly don’t get along and finally Dorothy explodes, telling her exactly how she ended up in the wheat field.
The story segues into Oz where Dorothy has returned to visit her friends only to find the Tin Man is having troubles because his heart is too big, the Lion is taking unnecessary risks and the Scarecrow has too many thoughts and a lot of this is orchestrated by Polaris, the witch who wants to take over Oz. Eventually we come back to modern day with the realization Dorothy has to return to Oz or die.
It’s cute. It really is. Okay the hospital scenes were a little long but that could be because the actors weren’t very strong (they are all college kids and some outright really kids for the munchins). Dorothy and Glinda and the lady reporter were obviously singers but less strong acting. The wicked witch, the tin man and the courageous lion chewed the scenery. They were excellent. The girl in the lion suit (one of our Welsh students) really captured the mannerisms from the movie very well.
Surprisingly, they had a lot of tumbling going on, including the scarecrow. One young tumbler, a cute skinny kid with long dark hair turned out to be choreographer for all the dance and he did a very good job of it. Turns out I was sitting right behind the playwright too. The scenery was simplistic and a lot of it projected on a screen. L (who I went with) and I were laughing since the hospital scenery was OUR office hallway (we could see the biochem poster blurred out) and there’s a blurred out person right in front of my door, hand on the knob so it was probably me.
The thing that DID irritate me. In the last scene at the hospital when we realize Dorothy is at risk and it’s quiet not only does one dumbass in the audience take a cell phone call. He talks LOUDLY for a few minutes. I hope the silence came after someone shoved that phone up his ass.
I love Abby. I nearly was Abby (I was a goth girl in forensics back in '01 before I realized my hand would never handle the work). Abby is great. I love her enthusiasm, her fashion sense, her smarts and her love for McGee. Okay our musical tastes aren't the same and I wouldn't tatt a spiderweb on my neck but she is simply a great character and I can't get enough of her
doing what they usually do
The basic premise is this. It starts with a Kansas twister done by interpretive dance. A reporter and her cameraman show up next and Dorothy stumbles into the scene looking for one of her silver slippers (this is based off book not movie). She’s lost it. She faints and ends up in the hospital that will make the frame for the rest of the story.
Naturally no one believes Dorothy when she wakes up and tells the doctor and social worker than she’s Dorothy Gale born in the 1880’s and doesn’t grasp when they tell her it’s the 21st century. The social worker and Dorothy particularly don’t get along and finally Dorothy explodes, telling her exactly how she ended up in the wheat field.
The story segues into Oz where Dorothy has returned to visit her friends only to find the Tin Man is having troubles because his heart is too big, the Lion is taking unnecessary risks and the Scarecrow has too many thoughts and a lot of this is orchestrated by Polaris, the witch who wants to take over Oz. Eventually we come back to modern day with the realization Dorothy has to return to Oz or die.
It’s cute. It really is. Okay the hospital scenes were a little long but that could be because the actors weren’t very strong (they are all college kids and some outright really kids for the munchins). Dorothy and Glinda and the lady reporter were obviously singers but less strong acting. The wicked witch, the tin man and the courageous lion chewed the scenery. They were excellent. The girl in the lion suit (one of our Welsh students) really captured the mannerisms from the movie very well.
Surprisingly, they had a lot of tumbling going on, including the scarecrow. One young tumbler, a cute skinny kid with long dark hair turned out to be choreographer for all the dance and he did a very good job of it. Turns out I was sitting right behind the playwright too. The scenery was simplistic and a lot of it projected on a screen. L (who I went with) and I were laughing since the hospital scenery was OUR office hallway (we could see the biochem poster blurred out) and there’s a blurred out person right in front of my door, hand on the knob so it was probably me.
The thing that DID irritate me. In the last scene at the hospital when we realize Dorothy is at risk and it’s quiet not only does one dumbass in the audience take a cell phone call. He talks LOUDLY for a few minutes. I hope the silence came after someone shoved that phone up his ass.
I love Abby. I nearly was Abby (I was a goth girl in forensics back in '01 before I realized my hand would never handle the work). Abby is great. I love her enthusiasm, her fashion sense, her smarts and her love for McGee. Okay our musical tastes aren't the same and I wouldn't tatt a spiderweb on my neck but she is simply a great character and I can't get enough of her
doing what they usually do
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:25 am (UTC)The play sounds like a lot of fun.
I <3 Abby too. She's so cool.
Tell your cats to get out of my chair.
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:30 am (UTC)it was fun
Abby is
you sit on that chair and you'll get an ass full of claws and teeth
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:32 am (UTC)pfft to the teeth and claws.
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:40 am (UTC)that is their chair just ask them
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Date: 2011-04-10 03:54 pm (UTC)And you know my thoughts on Abby. :)
Goth forensics person!? Love it!
Cute kitties!!!
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Date: 2011-04-10 05:04 pm (UTC)Indeed i do
Seriously i would have been. I had to change the girl in Riding with Strangers who would have been something of a me insert to Steampunk rather than goth to get a bit of separation between her and Abby
they would like you to think they're cute
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:29 pm (UTC)Sounds like a pretty good show, on the whole, considering being all "local talent" (sometimes those are truly excellent).
Abby rocks. I also love her relationship with Gibbs. Makes me very happy, every time they're on screen together. Sometimes I think Gibbs sees her as Kelly, all grown up.
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Date: 2011-04-10 05:00 pm (UTC)THe girls were all very good singers at any rate.
hmmm you know I never thought about that with her and Gibbs but it does make sense
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Date: 2011-04-10 07:48 pm (UTC)We saw the Man of La Mancha at the HS last night. The girl who played Dulcinea was only a freshman but already has a long list of credits. She was amazing.
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Date: 2011-04-10 08:11 pm (UTC)wow, cool.
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Date: 2011-04-10 11:13 pm (UTC)I think Abby rocks. I even like some of her music.
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Date: 2011-04-11 01:22 am (UTC)she does. Some of it's not bad. I'm not into the screamy stuff.