{"id":256,"date":"2007-07-09T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/1183991401206.html"},"modified":"2007-07-09T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T14:30:01","slug":"blogentry-high-school-musical-the-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] High School Musical : The Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew what High School Musical was just based on the sheer amount of television I watch.  But I was surprised when my at the time 4yr old started getting into it.  It seems that her friend was having a HSMusical-themed birthday party.  Fair enough.  So we watched the movie with the kids, and other than the singing and dancing, I think the plot went right over their heads.  Science decathalons?  Basketball playoffs?  Eh.<\/p>\n<p\/>Fast forward nearly a year, and for K&#039;s fifth birthday we got tickets to take her and her sister to the play.  I was curious how they&#039;d handle it.  I&#039;m a big <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.shakespearegeek.com&#034;>theatre geek<\/a>, but I prefer my stuff a little bit on the &#8230; deeper? side.<\/p>\n<p\/>I have to say, I was impressed very impressed.  The plot is for the kids, of course &#8211; smart girl and dumb jock boy get together to sing for the musical, despite all the cliques that tell them they&#039;re breaking the status quo (in a musical number that for some reason makes me think of Little Shop of Horrors&#039; &#034;Down On Skid Row&#034;).  The singing and dancing is actually very good.  If you like big, full-cast numbers that shake the back wall of the theatre, that&#039;s exactly what you get with this one.  There is one really weird scene in the middle where there&#039;s a slow love song, and for some reason a couple of dancers come out and do this little ballet thing while the stars are singing.  Very West Side Story.  But that was the only real slow point.<\/p>\n<p\/>A special nod, too, to the stage direction.  There&#039;s a point in this place, near the finale, that has no less than three crowd scenes going on simultaneously &#8211; the musical auditions (where two students dance some sort of tango\/rhumba number), a science competition, and&#8230;get this&#8230;an actual slow motion basketball game, complete with two teams of players, ball in play, and basketball net with backboard suspended from the ceiling.  All timed out to a single musical number, no less.  I was quite impressed.  Maybe not helicopter-in-Miss-Saigon impressed, but still it was damned cool.<\/p>\n<p\/>The kids did very well.  K kept asking me &#034;Where&#039;s Gabrielle?&#034; until I pointed her out, and then she was happy &#8211; until the second half when she kept asking me what song they were on.  I think she was getting tired.  E, on the other hand, appeared to be watching a different show than the rest of us.  When I asked her favorite character she said something that, as best I could figure out, involved &#034;The beauty who danced with the beast.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Overall, very impressed, glad we went, excellent show for the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew what High School Musical was just based on the sheer amount of television I watch. But I was surprised when my at the time 4yr old started getting into it. It seems that her friend was having a HSMusical-themed birthday party. Fair enough. So we watched the movie with the kids, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}