Earlier in the year (back in the spring) my friend wanted to see the live-action film version of Disney’s Cinderella, and so I accompanied her. When it comes to the online world, Cinderella is not typically considered a prime role model for the “modern female”. Cinderella being the traditional “rags-to-riches” story depicted a young lady […]

Now that I have had a few days to really let Denver’s production of Sense & Sensibility musical by Jeffrey Haddow and Neal Hampton sink in I could give details of what I liked and didn’t like, etc… CHARACTER / ACTOR BREAKDOWN The first thing I noticed was that aside from six characters: – Elinor […]

Wow, it was almost a year ago that I was listening to the music clips on the Sense and Sensibility the Musical website and was drawn into the show… Draw into it enough to want to see the production upon its arrival in Denver. It has been a year and well… I did end up […]

This was probably one of the more unique ways of storytelling that I have seen in a very long time. Taking six seemingly independent short stories and tying them together where not only does one influence the next, but they all have common threads and tie-ins with one another… rather fun to see and watch. […]

Ok… I am going to admit, the main reason that I wanted to see this movie was because of the fight scene. The one scene in the movie that is blatantly not in the book. I know when I read the book (and yes I will admit to reading the book, no shame in that… […]

It finally arrived! The audiobook to the third book in William Joyce’s series “The Guardians of Childhood“. So who is next up to bat? The wonderful Tooth Fairy also known as Toothiana in William Joyce’s world. According to the website Toothiana is noted as: One of the most riveting and mysterious Guardians of all time! […]

So how to explain this one? First off… I had the slight inkling that this was Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring except with smaller people and uneven pacing and more fun? I think that pretty much sums it up. (And the LOTRProject appears to agree with me) There are twelve dwarves on […]

After watching The Rise of the Guardians last month I immediately got intrigued (as I often do) with the idea that some of the worlds most loved icons were real and guarding the children. That here is Santa Claus (also known as North), the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman (aka Sandy) who […]

I fell down a rabbit hole… a major rabbit hole. It was a rabbit hole so deep that I haven’t really taken any time to get out of it because it is so much fun in this rabbit hole. So what am I going on about? Well.. as I was lurking at the Pemberley Discussion […]

With all the fairytales, folklore, fantasy related stuff out there, it only seemed a matter of time until someone came along and turned some of the world’s most loved figures and created a movie where they are guarding the children and their hopes and dreams. The best way to describe Rise of the Guardians: The […]

Show: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS Produced by: Location: Cadillac Palace Theatre Director: So first we have the famed Dr Seuss book which inspired a film adaptation with Jim Carrey and now there is a stage musical production? Riiiiiight… I was cautiously curious about this stage production but my date for the evening wanted to […]

Show: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE RADIO SHOW Produced by: Location: Wheaton Drama Director: Sean Ogren Earlier in December of 2012, a friend of mine and I went to Wheaton Drama to see a bunch of our friends in the holiday radio show “It’s a Wonderful Life”. When I say “a bunch” I mean I knew […]

During Christmas Day my parents and I were part of the legions of people that went to see Les Miserables on the large silver screen. Granted considering that it was Opening Day for the film the theatre was going to be jam packed with people that got there early enough to get the prime seats. […]

Last night a friend of mine and I went to see the first performance of the Chicago Stop of Sister Act the Musical… and honestly it was loads of fun to watch. My friend mentioned that he thought the musical was “fun” and “cute” which is probably the best words to describe the show. It […]

Before I get started, I will be the first to admit… I was very adverse to the idea of a movie being created about a board game that really didn’t have any premise except to try to sink the other player. How do you base a whole movie on that? Well… as it would turn […]