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GIDEON & THE BLUNDERSNORP

New Musicals Inc. · Ages 8+ · United States of America

Family Friendly World Premiere
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Review by anonymous

August 08, 2021 certified reviewer
tagged as: Good Score · LOUD · broad · heroic · silly · Family Friendly · inventive · fun

What I liked

The orchestration
The ending of the arc of the story.
Nice use of story theater elements and puppetry.

What I didn't like

I was watching online. So first off I want to say it may have been different in the room. But from my online perspective, diction.
Not everything needs to be shouted in a generic ‘classical theater /story theater energy.’
Subtlety and surprise in acting choices are welcomed.
E.g Progressive Insurance commercials as a model could work for this show.
Those commercials are fun and broad but interesting and subtle character work among the Progressive Employee Group.
Lighting cues need to be fixed or clarified.

My overall impression

Fun energy and staging kept it moving.
Sweet show for families in a hybrid contemporary/King Arthur fantasy feel

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