Theater Review: Disney's Broadway musical adaptation of 'Frozen' kicks off its North American tour at the Hollywood Pantages
With numbers, demand, staying power and worldwide adoration for this brand at yet another peak, what could possibly compel the creative team for this stage iteration of the original the musical keeps evolving, and not just since its incubation at Denver's Buell Theatre, where moody lighting and drab colors suggested producers were intent on creating something "ambitious," even if they weren't entirely sure how.
Or maybe it's that Sven the reindeer, created by master puppeteer Michael Curry and portrayed at this performance by Collin Baja, is now a work of Broadway art so magical it has no equal.
There are still pedestrian moments — songs that don't quite pay off, choreography that should be more imaginative. But director Michael Grandage's latest version moves faster and grabs heartstrings. And the entire company is, in fact, so polished, it could be dropped into the St. James Theatre in New York tomorrow without missing a beat. arrives, of course, in a new cultural climate.
It's still refreshing to see a Disney show in which a prince's kiss is not the "true love" cure-all, all while the women rescue themselves and one another. Butdual royals — with their tiny waists, wrinkle-free beauty, flowing hair and overly polite affects — still conform to traditional Disney princess stereotypes. What's always been needed is a little more scruff. Perhaps in the next tweak Prince Hans could run into Anna's icicle —10 times.
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