Not So Under The Sea
Sept 5, 2007
There is no drama like theater people throwing gossip around about the latest show they hope goes down the drain. When shows fail, the gossip is "I told you so." When the gossiped about shows hit, they suddenly forget that there was any fuss at all.
The latest show to get bashed and bashed hard is Disney "The Little Mermaid," now in a pre-Broadway run in Denver';s Ellie Caukins Opera House. Variety's David Rooney shredded the show and soon after, Michael Reidel, The NY Post's theater attack dog, threw the Variety review and every rumor about the show out into a spectacularly bitchy column.
So The Little Mermaid must be one dead fish, right?
Wrong.