Frozen Musical

I love musicals. I enjoy getting dressed up a bit, heading to the theatre and the talent of the cast on stage. I enjoy the songs and the live music. For musicals of movies that I have seen I enjoy seeing how they have adapted it to make it work on stage. Frozen the Musical came to Sydney these holidays and I thought it would be fun to go for a girls day with Nana J and Nana to introduce Eliza to her first musical. Unfortunately with Covid, Nana J couldn't be with us so Poppy kindly stepped in to join us on our adventure. I kept checking the details for the Musical. Earlier in the week it had been cancelled because of the Northern Beaches cluster starting up 

Eliza and I got dressed up and put on some make up. Eliza was asking me why we were getting dressed up. I wasn't too sure to be honest, but told her because it's a special trip and a bit of fun to get dressed up. 

Nana and Poppy came and picked us up and we headed into the city together. Normally we would have caught the train, but I wasn't keen to with Covid still being about. I'm grateful for Poppy driving into the city because the parking was tricky with it being one of those underground carparks. Definitely not something that I am keen to try and park in. James and Dad can do that anytime they want for me! I bought Eliza a Frozen colouring in book to take with us and brought some crayons. She also had her lunch in the car on the way. I made snowflakes out of her sandwich for her to eat, for a bit of fun.

She appreciated the snowflakes

In the cantrip Eliza was full of questions - some about the musical, others about life. She saw some Christmas decorations up and asked me 'Do people who don't believe in Jesus still put up Christmas decorations?' This then lead to her saying 'So lots of people won't go to heaven when they die?' Then she asked 'What if when someone who doesn't believe in Jesus dies and goes to the place where they go that isn't with Jesus. If they change their mind can they then go to heaven?' Big questions and tricky to answer, but I did my best. I think she is still processing Boompa and Grayma passing away to be honest and is trying to work out what happens after you die. 

She then moved on to questions about the Musical. Questions like 

'How does the castle appear?'

'How will they make a little Anna and little Elsa?' (in the movie it starts with them as little girls and then they grow up)

'How will the screen go up?'

A lot of these questions I had to guess because I hadn't seen the musical before but it meant that we had things to look forward to. We arrived a bit earlier because of staggered arrival times to try and limit everyone arriving at the same time. Eliza really didn't know what to expect. She happily smiled for photos before we went in.

It was lovely to have Mum and Dad there with us. I'm grateful for them taking me to musicals as I grew up, starting a love to going to them.

Loved having this special time with my gorgeous girl

We went in and found our seats. They weren't too bad. Back a way but still able to see it all and I like sitting up the top area. Adults needed to wear masks during the performance which was the longest that I had worn a mask but Eliza didn't need to and she wasn't keen to wear one at all.

Eliza is a funny one. She loved it but really didn't show much expression of emotion during it. I do think she was quite overwhelmed by the theatre and all to take in. But she did smile and enjoy it and said that she'd like to go to another musical. The way they used the special effects was fantastic! It really made the musical come to life. Things like making the castle by pointing one way and another and Christmas lights sparkled looking like snow in the air. Touching the edge of the stage and having the lights slowly grow around it looking like the stage was frozen. Elsa stamping her foot on the ground making a snowflake appear. It was just great!

You can see that the stage border has changed. That's because Elsa just sang 'Let it Go' and made the ice castle. As she touched the right side of the stage, the blue border spread like she was making it all snow.

At intermission I took Eliza to the toilets.

We did the mistake of walking past the gift shop on the way back. I thought about getting Eliza one of the magazines so that she had a lasting memory of the musical. We never got them when we were growing up! When we lined up Eliza was desperate to get an Elsa doll. They cost $50!! That's heaps. I wasn't going to spend that much money. Not a chance. But she kept persisting. I ended up suggesting that she could buy it with her own Christmas money if she was that keen and she was. So we lined up and got an Elsa doll for her which she cuddled for the rest of the musical.

At the end of the musical I asked Eliza what her favourite parts were. She said:

'Elsa making the castle'

'When Elsa finished making the castle'

'Anna, because I liked her headband.' That's my headband loving girl!

She is keen to go to future musicals which I love. More dates will happen!

When we got home we facetimed Nana J to show her Elsa and tell her about the musical. We told her that if it goes to Brisbane she will need to go and see it!