Hey guys so on Thursday, February 22nd, 2018, I saw Frozen on Broadway during the opening night! I’ve always wanted to go to the opening night of a show just to see what it was like. Of course during the first show, they have more energy and everyone is buzzing since it’s everyone’s first day.

I was expecting it to be different from the movie but I wasn’t expecting so many scenes to be that different from the movie. I mean, the show itself was amazing. It was definitely more adultish then kid friendly and definitely wasn’t a rate G play. This play was definitely a PG-13 sort of play, which was definitely one of the most surprising parts of them all.

There are some factors that I did and did not like about the play. I’ll talk about the good one first because the good ones were amazing. What I loved the most about this play was the production, the costume designs (because they looked almost exact to the movie), the special affects and some other things that I don’t want to say because it would spoil it too much. Also some of the scenes themselves we’re almost exactly the same as the movie such as Let It Go, Do You Wanna Build A Snowman (even though the words were changed a little), In Summer, Reindeers Are Better Than People and For the First Time In Forever.

As you know for plays, they’re are many more songs added to it to make it longer and more entertaining. But there were some songs that were definitely… interesting to say the least.

There was one particular scene that made me very confused. When Oaken’s family comes out of the sauna after the first song they sang, the second one, they were practically naked with branches covering their… parts. Even though they were somewhat covered, you could still see that they were practically naked, which in my opinion, isn’t very child friendly. Though, I’m definitely not a parent myself, I just didn’t think it was very appropriate for a child even though it was just one scene though to me… it was quite funny.

There was another song that was specifically made for Frozen called Monster, that is sung by Elsa. I liked the song at first but then it mentioned something about death and suicide like what Arendelle would be without Elsa being the monster that she is and she called out to her Mother and Father that died, asking for help for what she should do.

Sorry if this is out of order but this is what I’m remembering from the play since I didn’t write it down even though I should’ve. Another thing about the play, the trolls that take care of Spen and Kristoff, they weren’t really trolls. They were part animal part human and they didn’t go to them immediately after Elsa struck Anna in the movie. They had to call them with this strange chant, I guess, and then they came. They also had tails which was really weird since the trolls were basically disguised as rocks in the movie but I guess they can’t recreate everything from the movie.

Also… Olaf is a puppet and controlled by a man that is all dressed in white. I would recommend seeing this play as long as you are okay with somewhat nudity, the play not being completely like the movie and some scenes being completely different from it as well. (But Let It Go was definitely the best part. The girl playing Elsa really played it off and did it really well.) Anyways, tell me you’re favorite Frozen song and whose your favorite character?

–Zoe 🙂