Disneylover152
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I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory recently. It was an interesting show. I liked it, but at the same time, I didn't like it. I know that's confusing, but I have mixed feelings about it.
I want to know what you guys think, if you saw the show.
I would have liked it better if they brought the London version to Broadway.
Again, I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it.
I want to know what you guys think, if you saw the show.
WHAT I LIKED
One of the things I liked about the show was the actors. The actors made the show so funny and the script was funny. Act II was the show. The story happened in Act II. In case you didn't know this, but leading up to the factory is Act I and then the factory is Act II. But anyway, most of the story was so interesting and funny. I was also skeptical about having adults, but I actually liked it. They felt like teenagers rather then adults or kids. I still like having kids play them better, but I didn't hate adults playing them. I also loved Christian Borle as Wonka, better than the person in the London cast. I thought the casting was great!
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
One of the things I didn't like about the show was what happened to the kids. In the 1971 movie, they never continued the story of what happened to the kids. It leaves you wondering if they survived, or if they died. In the 2005 movie, they showed the kids surviving, but having defects (ex. Violet is always blue now). In this production, they clearly died. Verruca got ripped apart by the squirrels. Violet exploded. They died. That made me leave the theatre, like... what the heck did I just watch. And it kind of ruined the story for me. Like, I might not be able to watch the movie again without thinking of that.
The thing that I hated the most was the sets. I was warned that they weren't spectacular, but it looked like a high school made these sets. They were simple and boring. I get it that they want you to enforce the imagination or "make something out of nothing", but it didn't really work. It just looked cheap.
Here are some videos of their deaths:
It was disturbing, especially Veruca's death.
One of the things I liked about the show was the actors. The actors made the show so funny and the script was funny. Act II was the show. The story happened in Act II. In case you didn't know this, but leading up to the factory is Act I and then the factory is Act II. But anyway, most of the story was so interesting and funny. I was also skeptical about having adults, but I actually liked it. They felt like teenagers rather then adults or kids. I still like having kids play them better, but I didn't hate adults playing them. I also loved Christian Borle as Wonka, better than the person in the London cast. I thought the casting was great!
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
One of the things I didn't like about the show was what happened to the kids. In the 1971 movie, they never continued the story of what happened to the kids. It leaves you wondering if they survived, or if they died. In the 2005 movie, they showed the kids surviving, but having defects (ex. Violet is always blue now). In this production, they clearly died. Verruca got ripped apart by the squirrels. Violet exploded. They died. That made me leave the theatre, like... what the heck did I just watch. And it kind of ruined the story for me. Like, I might not be able to watch the movie again without thinking of that.
The thing that I hated the most was the sets. I was warned that they weren't spectacular, but it looked like a high school made these sets. They were simple and boring. I get it that they want you to enforce the imagination or "make something out of nothing", but it didn't really work. It just looked cheap.
Here are some videos of their deaths:
It was disturbing, especially Veruca's death.
I would have liked it better if they brought the London version to Broadway.
Again, I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it.
), but looking at the winners list now. And The Band's Visit is the one nominated musical that I knew absolutely nothing about. It seemed like all the momentum was with Mean Girls and Spongebob (at least from what I saw on Facebook), so I'm a little surprised that it cleaned up in almost every category.