And continuing in the spirit of the season -- Frozen! Which I actually saw a couple weekends back, but forgot to post about. Anyway.

I should hate Frozen. I really should. It's a blatantly commercialized Disney film with several elements carefully designed to sell toys (hi, cute trolls that otherwise have no role in the plot, hi cute snowman who ( Read more... )

Note: I originally wrote this right after the show, then decided to hang on to the post until my Wicked review went up at Tor.com….which was delayed a bit since the post initially got lost in all of the site rebuilding excitement. So, a bit late, here we are ( Read more... )

A six year old loved it. The rest of the audience was less congratulatory, and, well, Spider-Man got stuck.

Ok, I have to admit, I'm kinda fascinated, in a train-wreck sorta way, by tonight's opening of the new Spider-Man musical on Broadway, only partly because I have got to wonder why anyone would pay around $76.50 a ticket (and up; yes, the website mentions cheaper tickets but the more reliable Ticketmaster says $76.50) for a show (not counting ( Read more... )