Heads up: This post is 13 years old. My thinking may have evolved since then — read it with that in mind.
A couple of months ago, we saw ads for a Thomas the Tank Engine musical on the subways. Since Luc loves Thomas so much, my wife decided to bring Luc to see it, even though the tickets were almost $400 a piece.
This morning, we took the subway and then transferred to a shuttle bus to go to the place. It’s a bare conference hall in an industrial district. Horrible location! The whole program was only about an hour long and it was an extremely low quality production. Considering how much they charged for the tickets, I was appalled by the quality of the only four trains in the show. Percy looked like he had Botox shots near his mouth! When Harold the helicopter came out, I thought it was the best example of “underwhelming” I could use to explain the word to Luc. The voice acting was horrendous, the songs weren’t memorable, and I know Thomas isn’t really a girl’s kinda show but there were a lot of little girls in the audience, perhaps they could’ve made the female performers do more than just dancing in the background?
I couldn’t help but think, too many people make a quick buck targeting us parents who just want to make our children happy.