Good morning!
Report on "Seusical the Musical" starring Kathy Rigby (the Olympic gymnast) which I attended last night:
Kathy Rigby is very talented! She can belt out a Broadway style song fantastically, and she was very good at doing comic accents and improvising with the audience. She played The Cat in the Hat.
This musical is sort of an amalgam of the two Horton books (Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who.) Lines from other books were incorporated throughout the play. The only problem with the play was that for young children it was confusing, because the players weren't costumed identifiably...Horton the elephant was simply a largish young man with a cap with flaps, for example. I had to keep explaining to my granddaughter (who thought they were going to see a giant cartoon) that he was PRETENDING to be an elephant. LOL!
Kathy Rigby had lots of aerial flying as well as several dance numbers as well.
One off-putting thing was a bit of anti-war stuff in the middle of the program, which seemed a bit jarring given the current times, but no one but me seemed to notice it so I didn't comment.
Lots of fun, though!
Oh, and this comment from my sister, the nurse:The UN is just like Jesse Jackson. All they do is talk and go around the world causing trouble.