I am so beyond excited. Scarlet just read this for storytime this morning while I set up a bookfair. The kids were nearly jumping out of their seats. And now a movie!!! Wah!!!
Kathryn, do NOT be jealous of me going to the opera. It was weird. They were wearing these bulky animal costumes and clonking boots which might have been okay except that their footsteps drowned out the sound of the orchestra (Oh look! A band!). The plot was supposed to be about the circle of life or something deep, but it really seemed to be more about animals getting it on. It was an opera, though, so plot really shouldn't matter as long as the music is good. It wasn't. I mean, it wasn't BAD - but most of the singing was monotonous, the orchestration was unremarkable, and I hope to heaven no one from the production reads this. It would be so disheartening! They were all skillful - I just wasn't interested in the piece itself. But then, I have only ever seen very classical sorts of pieces. The Marriage of Figaro. Samson and Delilah. And I was listening to Puccini before leaving the house! What do you do? But then again, I was distracted by my seating companion. Five so
Yeah,this thing has been in production for years. I think it actually as been in the can for more than a year (I could be wrong) but I guess there were some major problems with it and for a while they thought they'd have to scrap the whole thing.
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I've been looking forward to it for forever.
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i can't tell if it's gonna be phenomenal or absurd. and i really can't tell if it's for kids or emo college kids.
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