Poor Ariel...

The reviews for Mermaid are in and they are not pretty.

Samples:

Clive Barnes, New York Post
"The music is sort of perkily lugubrious."
About the sets - "Underneath all this baroque ornamentation was a tiny, tinny little musical struggling for its life. "
About the cast - "all swimming upstream with a kind of grinning gallantry. "

Ben Brantley, New York Times
"Loved the shoes. Loathed the show."
"Disney’s charm-free $15 million adaptation of its charming 1989 animated movie of the same title."
"Directed by Francesca Zambello, this “Little Mermaid” burdens its performers with ungainly guess-what-I-am costumes (by Tatiana Noginova) and a distracting set (by George Tsypin) awash in pastels gone sour and unidentifiable giant tchotchkes that suggest a Luau Lounge whipped up by an acid-head heiress in the 1960s. The whole enterprise is soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very young child — or possibly a tackiness-worshiping drag queen — might find pretty."

Do 13 year old girls care about reviews? Maybe not. But my suggestion for the next adaptation, Mulan. At least all the characters are human.

In other news, my former roommates Chris and Dan, would like to announce an addition to their family, little Dewar's. Say good-bye to freedom, boys!

Picture to follow....