Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The Little Mermaid: In Defense of Disney

Well, take that!

Here's an article in Time Magazine that defends the Little Mermaid and criticize the critics, for a change.

Yes, it's a fairy tale, aimed chiefly at children. But would it be rude to ask why Broadway's fairy tales for adults (Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls) can become musical theater classics while the ones directed at kids become critical dartboards? Or to point out that most of the children's theater I've seen in the past few years has had more theatrical verve and originality than most of the serious stuff I've had to sit through on Broadway? Or to wish, just once, that Disney might get a little credit for recruiting some of the most adventurous theater artists in the world to bring new ideas in staging and storytelling to a mass theater audience, kids and adults alike?


So there you go. We just to see it for ourselves, don't we?

Zz.

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