iTunes Exclusive Episode Peter Pan 360

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Whatever we do, one of these, it is to review something and this is no exception.
What is that?
Oh, it's good.
What the kid have to do with doing bad math, Don.
That's my 10 of a half.
Okay.
Do math.
Okay.
But our review for this is a little bit different.
We've reviewed stage productions before, but what we're about to review for you is something
completely different.
And before we begin, we have to think, city, events, and everything, everybody at ATT
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The production is called Peter Payne 360.
So you're probably sitting there and you're thinking to yourself, well, Rob, I got the
first two thirds of that.
Do I need an Xbox to experience it?
You don't.
This is a live stage production and it doesn't, it brings its own venue.
It is a 100 foot tall tent that they construct and in our case, it's in downtown Dallas
right near the arch district in a huge parking lot that they, they put up this big tent
and they say no side, side show carnival for you, sir.
And it is in what they call in the round.
And what that means is the stage is in the middle of the room and the entire audience
in this case, the tent holds about 1,500 people.
They surround this stage.
There is no such thing as a, there is a backstage area, but it's outside the tent.
Yeah, there is no stage front stage rear stage left stage right.
It is just stage round.
It's just whatever point of injury you take.
Which causes a very interesting thing because when you don't have a backstit of stage,
you don't have room for things like backdrops, certain levels of scenery.
So how exactly do they accomplish this?
I am so glad you asked to be served.
It's almost like that you'll close the show with me.
What they've done is they have given you a fully immersive audio and video experience.
The only way I can describe this.
We all know the story of Peter Pan, not really going to go into that part of it, because
I just want to get right to the meat and potatoes of this thing.
You haven't seen Peter Pan, first of all, welcome back from the cave.
Secondly, you know how to find it.
So what they've done is they have these six high definition projectors.
And what these projectors do is they treat the top of the tent like a backdrop.
And so when the scenes change, the projectors change the scenery that they're, that's
going to basically be the backdrop.
For instance, when Peter and the kids fly, the scenery moves as they're flying.
So it's like if you just had a camera to the side of them, it would be like they were
in front of a blue screen.
When the production starts, there's a curtain on the ceiling projected that lifts.
There's a couple of amusement parks that have similar technology in my written review at
the clubhousepodcast.com, which is our website.
I do talk about that it's kind of like when Disney did their 360 vision.
They don't want it out there, don't they?
Soren's in California that's completely different.
Soren's more of a simulator.
There was a, what they called Delta Dream flight that was kind of like this, but it's
not there anymore.
A Disney World.
They also have something in Canada and Epcot that's kind of like this.
But all you're doing is you're standing still and you're having to turn your head around
constantly to see everything.
In this deal, it's all right there.
Since you're not in the middle, since you're on the outside, it's easier to take in
what's going on.
Unless you're going to look at what's directly behind you.
Right.
Full lights, acrobatics, wirework, the whole nine, it's here.
I mean, it's hard to, it's hard to think of an element they don't incorporate outside
of using live animals because they don't do that.
Not a lot of smoke.
It was a little bit.
I just say not a lot.
Just for the effect of, you know, of some of the lights of the lighting effects.
And I think I loved this one.
Each act started and ended.
It's the curtain.
Yeah.
It's a curtain around.
Oh, God.
I love that.
That goes up.
And it keeps changing constantly and constantly.
Like, which I put in my review at the clubhouse podcast.com.
That's our website.
There's one scene where they're flying over London and they're raised above the stage.
Yes.
But then the screens around you above you move that when you watch it.
Like I said, so if you're shooting in front of the side, it would look like they were
blue screen because everything's moving.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it would, it just blew you away.
I mean, how do you explain it?
How do you, it's, it's sensory overload, because no matter where you sit, there's not
a bad scene in the whole world.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no matter where you sit, no matter where you look, there's going
to be something around you.
Because we were about two thirds of the way up.
And I thought our seats were perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When you think about it, when you look forward, there's something there.
When you look to the left, there's something there, when you look up, there's something
there, when you cannot escape, there's no view where you cannot, not escape seeing something
of this production.
And performers enter the stage area from every conceivable angle.
Absolutely.
I mean, they come in from behind you beside you above you below the stage because the stage
itself is fully customizable and moves around and things flip over to reveal different
scenes.
It's like a Rubik's Cube that they use more things.
And there's a little bit of the human element involved in that in some of the props.
Very little.
Very, very little.
No more than a handful.
I mean, the stage set up itself is borderline black box theater because of the, the minimalism
that's required to keep that stage changing the way that it does and keep it simple.
And it doesn't, and you don't feel like it's a middle note that you don't feel
shy to the brilliance.
Yeah.
One thing I love, too, is like there seems when they're in the jungle neverland, right?
And you see trees all around you, but if you watch the trees, the leaves move.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Even though it's, they're set.
It's not moving.
The trees still move when it's, when when you're inside their house at neverland,
you see the, the light that comes through the, the burlap actually glistens, the, it's
the particles moving in the light and stuff.
When you're in the cove, you see the, the, the, the water's moving.
There's constant motion of flags and yeah, and one didn't, they're, whether they have
snow above the building.
She saw those sprinkles of snow too.
It looked like it was snowing like, oh, yeah, snow.
The level of detail that went into this thing is just, a, mind blowing.
I can't imagine what it, what, how many hours it took to produce that thing?
What went into actually.
Yeah.
How many hours were there around the stage?
About eight that went straight to this, to the top of the tent there to the screens.
Is that called it?
You know what the projectors projectors, I think there were six.
Yeah.
And what was brilliant there, too, is I tried to find a seam between the projected images.
You can't could now do it.
I think that they're, they're, they're projected and they're overlapped so perfectly
that you can't tell where, where the, where it starts and where it's stopped.
The only downside to it is when people were coming in and out like they had to go take
their kid to the bathroom or something, their shadow would shoot up a little bit on the screen.
Yeah, if they were, if they passed right in front of the projector.
But it never, like, fully blocked anything.
It overlapped it so well, like, it was, it was like they were like, look, we have to account
for things.
Yeah.
It's going to be a disaster.
Because the projectors are on the floor around the state.
Basically, at the, at the, about halfway down the base of the, of the stage that it's
sitting on.
There was nothing about this production that is not brilliant.
Yeah.
And I mean, we can talk about the cast all day.
I mean, the cast is great.
You have Dan Rosales playing Peter Pan, Sarah Charles playing Wendy, Stephen Carlisle
play, as in the tradition, plays both Mr. Darling and Captain Hook.
You've got the, the two boys played by John, Alotty and Sean Burns, a tinkerbell played
by Jesse Sherman, Smith, one who's always one of my favorite characters in the story.
Play by Liam Fennick and who also comes out in a Tuxedo and is a puppeteer for Nana
the Dog.
There's no lie of animals in this.
The, the Crocodile is very steam punk, he's the only way I can describe the Crocodile.
Basically, two guys on a, on a bicycle built for two with a, with a Crocodile shell
built around him.
I put my, the chemistry between all the actors was incredible.
Yeah.
I can find any faults.
My non-leading role shout out has to go to Liam Fennick and who played the Sminanica.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great little bit of comedy.
He was just that little side goofball who played the role perfectly, who had just added
so much to the film.
That's what the role is called.
And that's been, it's great as the cast is, and this cast is very, very good.
For me, I was more concentrating on the technology of this thing than anything.
Yeah, both.
It's, it's, it's, it's, it's the perfect storm.
Yeah.
Sensory overload.
And it's being an acting.
I, I have to, you also give a shout out to Jessie Sherman to play Tinkerbell.
Oh, she was very, very good.
She felt that character.
She had spunk.
I love her, her, her, her, her, she really let her character show in this film in this
production.
And her spunk was just good comedy.
You just, you just had it lover.
Even though, oh, she was great.
Yeah.
But again, as great as this cast was and this cast top to bottom was great.
The technology just makes it that much better.
The, there is two acts of this.
And that, that kind of, that was the only, if I've got to have criticism of this.
For a children's production, or a children's tale to be told, it may run a little bit
long.
If you go during the week at an evening performance, understand this will not get
done to the better part of 10 o'clock.
So if you have the young kids, you may want to consider one of the matinee shows on the
weekends.
So you know, because we noticed that there were quite a few people that weren't there
in the second act that were in the first, because it was just so late.
Yeah.
But, if you, if you're okay with your kids being up that late, by God don't let
that stop.
But I think they did need the intermission because kids have to go the bathroom.
That's true.
Yeah.
I see where you're going there.
But I would not have been surprised if they just went straight through it either.
I just think you're average Disney movies about an hour and a half.
Yeah.
But how many kids sit and watch the things straight?
You'd be surprised.
I mean, straight without taking your eyes off the screen versus having to go the bathroom.
No, I'm just saying you'd be surprised.
But I mean, this thing is so amazing.
It's so good.
I cannot.
And let me just say something else here that I actually put in my written review, which
is at www.theclubhousepodcast.com, which is our website.
And I don't know if you noticed this, sir.
What's that?
The merch.
The merch was, I want to use the word affordable, but grade that on a curve.
When, when I was last time, you went to a show where T-shirts were $25.
Yeah, the program was 10.
Normally, they started.
Right.
The merch was even affordable.
I almost bought a T-shirt, but I didn't.
I wanted the one that said the lost boys, that's why the club.
I didn't want that one.
They were all very clever.
It was, it was, they were all like, most of the T-shirts were like,
used clever wordplay and very basic minimalist imagery on it, which is something
I'm a huge fan of.
One thing I got to do is give a shout out how they have this thing set up,
because if you walk into one tent where they have the merch, they have the
concessions, then you walk out.
They have plenty of restrooms with affordable, because this is a lot.
But it's not too hard to get around.
Exactly.
And it's not too hard to get into the tent, because there's four openings
which you get in, easy to find your seat, not hard to get around.
Indeed.
So how they have that set up?
And everyone that's working there is a very, very helpful.
Oh, yeah.
We got to think, one thing, we have to give it a shout-off to City
for giving us the, thus passes, too.
I mean, but, yeah, we love the seats that we have.
Yeah, exactly.
Everything about this works.
So I'll tell you what really impressed me.
And in front of the show, Mr. Barcelona was with us tonight.
But she and I were talking about it.
How they were able to non-challantly get the wires hooked up for the
wire work where it didn't, it was very, very smooth.
Yeah.
It was like, oh, I have to put my harness on now.
Yeah, it was very, you knew what they were doing,
but it didn't distract you from what you were watching.
And like, the kid that plays Peter, what was his name again?
The Solis.
Yeah, Daniel Solis.
He was having, of course, he's a central character.
And he's always in the middle of the scene.
And more often than not, he's like delivering dialogue.
And at the same time, he's like very non-challantly
looking those little, uh, heart, you know, those little wires.
He did it for Tinkerbell at one point.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
I did no very, very smooth.
There's nothing not top notch about this production.
There just isn't.
And it gymnastics.
I really want to bring it up.
The acrobatics were amazing.
Yeah.
There's a scene with the two mermaids that are telling the story
of the little mermaid.
Yeah.
And they're basically, they do those aerial acrobatics with like two
with the sashes.
That's what they call it.
There's a name for that.
Stuff I will never do.
Stuff that's pretty awesome.
And the other thing that I can't help but mention was this, this was one
of the best examples of totally immersion of anything.
I think any of us have ever been a part of.
No matter where you look, you see something.
Well, plus the fact, and then I know this is also a tradition.
We're hook basically started playing to the crowd.
Yes.
That's something that's been a long-standing tradition and a live
production of Peter Band was that hook will always try to bait the crowd
to boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
Trying to look for cheers and getting nothing to boo.
It's a good crowd interaction, everything.
And they want the kids to say, you know, what the, what
Tinkerbell not once you need, you know, that's another classic moment.
But yeah.
And that's something that that I know is a little bit more
familiar to people.
But not a lot of people were that familiar with, with hook playing
to the crowd the way he did it very, very well.
He did it really well.
I call this room.
So it was called out in well.
Yeah, this is what we call revolutionary.
I believe, I believe that's a pretty good description.
But the interesting thing is, is you and I were talking on the way home last
night after we saw this, it's almost like you'd be hard pressed to find
another story that this would work for.
They already have where they're doing.
They are, I think it went into production last year.
Okay.
Or the year before they're doing the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Okay.
I could see that.
And the more I thought about it, I'm like, you know, what that makes sense.
You know, you know, you don't necessarily have to incorporate the flying scenes
to make this work in that type of environment.
And I think that's what we were stuck on.
I'm like, what are the production would feature flying?
I'm like, you don't really need the flying.
It's an amazing part of it.
But I don't think it's, obviously, it's not a required part of it.
And one of the thing I wanted to add, how they put a couple little modern day things into
this play.
Yeah.
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,
don't, don't, don't, I don't say anything else.
There's some modern day references that make with me that just very, very, very subtle, but
very effective.
All right.
So we get to the final analysis gentleman.
Let's do it.
All right.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we don't give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We don't give you numbers, stars.
We don't give you a letter grades, rankings, and none like that.
It's not how we roll.
I'm going to ask these boys two questions.
Question number one is would you see this production again?
The answer is no.
We're done here.
The answer is yes.
Since this is a stage production, I want to know where you want to sit.
Because tickets are dipping on where you sit.
And these tickets, by the way, are very affordable.
Oh, yes.
And even if he get the lowest price, you're not going to have a bad seat.
Done.
Would you see this again?
Well, that's a definite.
Where you want to sit?
I'm going to say it because once is probably the greatest stage production I ever saw.
You are a big fan of some on it.
But this is my favorite production besides once that I've ever seen.
Don't put it out there.
Yeah.
I mean, I'll think I can have anything that could top once.
But on this one here, there's no other production that I liked as much.
It was that incredible.
Where do you want to sit?
Anywhere.
Anywhere.
Just get into the bill.
Just get into the tent.
Chad.
Right there with him.
I mean, and again, it's really hard to put a label on where you'd want to sit.
Because there really is no such thing as a bad seat.
I really can't think of where would be the prime location to sit.
I'm going to tell you where it is.
Right exactly where we were sitting.
There's there's 13 rows in each section.
I think we were in row 11, row K because I had to count letters on my head.
So what do you were doing?
I was like, where we were, I thought was perfect because you, I wouldn't want to be too
far down low because I feel like I'd be missing things.
I want to be back far enough that I can take everything and but not back so far that
I'm looking straight up in the air.
Right about where we were like that sweet spot in your theater, right there.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Get in there.
Yeah.
Get in the other side.
Sit on the right.
Sit on the right.
I don't think the opposite side because you're going to get the same basic view.
Peter Pan 360 is playing in downtown Dallas until December the 6th.
Just got announced right before we started this deal that they extended it a few more days.
Because of the demand.
Yeah.
Get out there and see it.
We have to thank Cindy from the ATT pack and everybody else firm by us to this thing.
Thank you so much.
So so good to us.
And we can never repay the how wonderful they are to us.
Peter Pan 360.
I cannot say enough good things about this.
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