For What? For What? For What It's Worth, If It Was Going To Kill You Boy, It Would Have By Now

For what? For what? For what it's worth, if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now

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Mary Quite Contrary (Annette Funicello) Yellow dress.. Babes In Toyland (1961).. Costume by Bill Thomas.

ALSO

I think adding the author of the original story as a character was a wonderful decision. The way he interacted with Alice was adorable and his quick change into the White Rabbit was really cool.

And aging Alice into a teenager in love instead of a young child was also good. I liked the side plot of her and Jack with the tarts.

And the PUPPETRY oh my stars don’t even get me started on the puppetry. I expected the caterpillar to be a puppet, but he was made up of like- 15 different dancers all holding up umbrellas to the main dancer’s back. Making the Cheshire Cat a huge puppet breaking apart and coming back together was literally jaw dropping. “Oh my word how did they do that?!” I was literally screaming so loud my mother came and asked if I was okay.

The Mad Hatter is his own damn thing. I did ballet AND tap as a kid so I basically remember none of it (I was 5-6) but I know they use almost completely different rules and combining them had to be super hard……..also I really like the music in that scene. And the set. And the costumes. And the choreography… I just like that scene a lot.

IN CONCLUSION IF YOU HAVE BROADWAY HD YOU SHOULD WATCH ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND!!!

RAMBLE ALERT

I love ballets but it’s a shame no one posts about them in a fandom context.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is such a silly show. Two teenagers being all lovey dovey idiots and the White Rabbit is just struggling to keep them alive the whole time.

The Pig & Pepper scene is my favorite, I really like the butcher. If I knew how to edit, I would edit her to Piggy Pie by Insane Clown Posse.

I really don’t like the ending though. If the ballet ended with Alice waking up in the real world it would be fine, that’s the usual ending, but they end it with “The whole show was a dream by a real person reading the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” I think that’s stupid.

Everything else in the ballet was perfect in every way though. Just cut it at the ending and pretend it ended nicely.

Bonus Will Wood

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

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for @newmsies (they didn’t ask for it but we’ve both been in a Wonderland mood lately)

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