Comic Strips

I have a newfound love for community theater.

I just saw The Little Mermaid musical at one last night.

For starters, Ursula was incredibly talented. If she was a slightly better dancer she'dve been on Broadway, but she sure as hell didn't need Ariel's voice. Not that Ariel wasn't a talented singer. I guess the same could be said of the source material too though.

But then the costumes and props and even set designs were well done but obviously low-budget. Most of the sea life was on roller blades or heelys...they made no attempt to hide Flounder's. Floatsam's and Jetsam's lit up.

Most the performers playing the daughters were in High School. Flounder's was in middle school...which made his crush on Ariel all the cuter. And he was pretty talented, too.

But they didn't take themselves to seriously. There was a seagull tapdance number led by Scuttle and I nearly pissed myself silent-laughing at the absurdity of it. Tritans crown fall off. There were two ensemble members in (off the shelf) sea turtle costumes that were totally phoning it in but they were absolutely my spirit animals. Like, I would love to be understudy to Second Sea Tortoise.

Just that these are all local real people who do this for fun, in addition to (most of them) having full-time jobs or being full-time students. That, to me, is pretty damn impressive.