| I enjoyed Frozen well enough, but really like your point. Young people in the past found their way to loving the theatre without shows blatantly aimed at them. I remember being taken to community productions of Gypsy, West Side Story, The Fantasticks, and yes Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz, as well as countless viewings of The Sound of Music film. In junior high I was taken to see the tours of Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, and Cabaret starring Joel Grey (little did I know what that meant!). I danced around the living room as a kid equally enthralled with the OCR's of A Chorus Line and Jacques Brel as I was with Annie. And really you haven't lived until you've seen a nine year old create and perform a full dance number to Marathon. :-). I was 11 when my grandparents returned from London with the cast recording of Phantom, and 14 when I saw my first Broadway show in New York, Les Miz. These are all the influences that hooked me, and very few aimed at kids. |
