In this special event, we will be watching Toy Story: The Musical. The entire play is up on YouTube, I don't own them but they are public videos. The play is broken up into seven parts and I will post a different part when I can. Before I do that though, I should give you some background info on Toy Story: The Musical. Well, its pretty obvious that it was adapted form Disney & Pixar's Toy Story. It was created for the Walt Disney theater of Disney Wonder. It's a little odd and hard to explain so I'll let this video explain.
I hope you enjoyed that little behind the scenes feature because now it's time to dive, right in to play with Part 1. Quick, heads up Andy's played by a girl.
As I mentioned Andy is played by a girl but she does a fine job and I must say that majority of the Toys do a fine job. The only one I don't care for is the actor playing Woody. This role just doesn't seem to suit him and his voice sounds wrong for the character. There were som obvious omissions such as Mr. Mic and Binouclars. If you listened, Woody said that Bo held the plastic erosion seminar which was held by Mr. Mic in the movie. Perhaps my biggest complaint is that when the song is over the next moment feels rushed because we go from the song and then all of sudden Buzz shows up in Andy's room. Part 1 contained two songs, it opened with "You've Got a Freind in Me" which was sung by Andy. That was smart open the show with a song the audience already knows to engage them into the world of Toy Story. The next song is "That's Why Wer'e Here" and as you heard the toys are describing their love and reasoning for being there. It's Andy. This is a cute song and after watching "Toy Story 3", this song is a little depressing. All in all, I think the play is off to a good start. Come back for part two when we meet Buzz Lightyear. I don't know why but those monkeys make think of "He's got the Monkeys" line from the song "Prince Ali"
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