Raptors In The Kitchen in Adventures in paradise

I’ve got a few minutes before I have to head off to work, so I might as well write about the play I went and saw last night. Or rather, it was a musical.
It was “Jurassic Park: The Musical” and it was probably the lamest live show I’ve seen yet LOL. I get that they were trying to go with the whole ‘We-can’t-do-special-effects-like-the-movies’ thing, but man, it was just bad haha. So bad that I have to laugh. Having said that, I didn’t leave during intermission. I stayed through the whole thing. I had to see it out.

It was embarrassing enough that the ticket lady thought the people behind me were with me, but I guess she would. Who sees a play by themselves? Me. Loner me does haha.

Turns out my seat was up in the dress circle, rather than the stalls like I thought. I’ve been to that theatre before and I didn’t even realize that it HAD a dress circle, but yep, it does. 5 rows of really steep seats after a long flight of stairs. The stairs in the dress circle were SO steep that even my long legs had trouble stepping up them. I heard a few people comment about the stairs also.

Either way, it looked like it was probably a sold-out session. I didn’t see any spare seats, but I’m not sure how the stalls looked downstairs. We could only see the edge of the stage. Whenever the cast would be acting and looking out over the stage, we couldn’t see a thing, until those cast members made their way onto the stage. So that wasn’t done very well. I was in the 2nd row also, toward the middle. I’d imagine the people behind me could see even less, although they were up much higher. The people in front had to keep leaning over to see what was happening. Still, I could see most of it.

There was a bit of adult humour in it, which I found surprising, given all the kids in the audience. One part was a dinosaur running out across the stage, shortly followed by a park ranger who walked out doing up the belt and buckle on his pants. Later on in the play, he was talking dirty about how he wanted humans and dinosaurs to cross-breed. I was like ‘Ummm, okay then.’ I just hoped the kids were too young to understand what they were insinuating haha.

Then the sound was terrible. The microphones screeched at least 6-8 times, causing people to cover their ears, and a lot of the actors voices were way too low for the loud music playing (there were quite a few kid-actors), so we couldn’t hear a thing they were singing in the songs. It was only the actors with the more prominent voices who we could hear, and I was impressed at how well most of them could sing. At least the music was live.
There were a couple of songs that got stuck in my head, like ‘Raptors In The Kitchen’ and ‘Welcome To/Goodbye from Jurassic Park’ (which was the one the whole cast sang so we could hear it really well).

The play had already been going a week before I saw it, so I thought all the kinks would have been smoothed out by then, but I guess not haha. I remember my school musicals where I played the lead or one of the leads over the course of three nights, and no night was the same, so I’ve gotta cut them some slack.
Also, the last musical I saw was Billy Elliott in London’s West End, so comparing a local musical here to the quality of that over there is surely chalk and cheese :D

Anyway, it was a bit of fun. I ordered Dominos on my walk home and it was ready by the time I passed the restaurant. I adult well.

Last updated September 28, 2016