Last Night at the Theater...

Last night we took some time off to enjoy a preview of Mary Poppins... which has got to make me five of the gayest people you've ever met. We were expecting to have an excellent time, we'd heard so much about the scenery, the songs, everything. The New Amsterdam Theater, where Disney has put up the show, is a spectacular space that they've renovated beautifully (which you know if you've seen The Lion King). Everything was very promising... until the show started. Okay, it wasn't completely horrible, just boring. Really boring. I mean, we weren't going to walk out prematurely, but it just wasn't knocking our socks off. Anyhow, the second act begins and the kids have run away because the musical is nothing like the movie. Bert the chimneysweep is writing "welcome" on the sky, suddenly the kids run in, there's an exchange of excited words, they all run off stage and then, and then, nothing. There's a totally obvious lag of time and, just when the natives start to get restless, out pops a producer who tells us that they're having some technical difficulties. After seeking our patience he leaves us alone for about ten minutes. Finally, he comes out again and tells us that, sorry to say, they'll be refunding our money. So, only saw part of the show, but really don't care. Disney should get off Broadway because they clearly don't get it.