Davonte Show paper

Davonte Rice

Acting and Directing

Professor LeSar

6/14/12

Play Write-up

            I am writing my show write up on this ice show I saw at Busch Gardens called Iceploration.  It was basicly about this young boy named Austin and his Grandfather,  who decides to go out and explore the world.  It was a very interesting show.  It was filled with wonderful music, dancing, acrobatics, and skating.  I have never seen anything like it, I think it was a one of a kind show.

            When my girlfriend and arrived at the theater and seated, we were pleased to see that the people who were selling food were already making their rounds, we were extremely hungry.  Another thing that I notice was that it was very cold!  I mean we had just went on a water ride and we come in here and freeze our butt off, but it was my fault.  Anyways,  The show was on of the greatest spectacles I’ve ever seen.  Like I’ve never seen human beings move so gracefully, set designed so beautifully, or music that sounded so heavenly.  It wa like I was transported to an entirely new world.

            The though the blocking for the show was amazing.  Like I don’t understand how you block something with so much movement.  There would be as many as nine skaters on the stage at once and yet their movements were still so seamless.  I noticed they used similar blocking set ups that we learned in class.  They used A, L, and I formations while in movement, making sure that we always had a clear view of the graceful skates.

            I was very impressed by the scenery.  We were amazed to see the breathtaking sets.  The play took us through many locations like the African Serengeti, Great Barrier Riff and the Amazon rainforest; all were beautifully designed.  They used screens to give the look of an underwater scene, that was my favorite show of scenery.  The costumes were also amazing; they quickly changed between costumes many times and very often.  It was just an amazing show.  I also enjoyed the many set pieces like the huge fish puppet that they made swim around using a few skaters.  It was a sight to see.  Also I love when they went to the Amazon Rainforest.  They had these three acrobats dressed as animals and they were just in the background doing backflips and many other acrobatic maneuvers, while never touching.  While they were doing that they had people in front of them skating.  Their costumes were just dazzling.  All of the colorful backgrounds worked well with the backgrounds.  

            A great touch to the show was when they began to drop ice on the audience.  I would have to admit, It made things a lot colder.  The little things they did like that just made the experience more magical.  Another thing they did was add actual animals to the show.  They had birds flying around the roof, they had a strange animal walk across the front of the audience.  It was just a great spectacle to see.  They had dogs bring in the two main actors into the Arctic.  Like I would have loved to see a cheetah or a lion on stage, just to try to touch them, but they made it clear not to touch the animal performers.

            I was very happy with my live performance.  I got to experience a great show.  It was just amazing watching the story unfold and watching the sets change so quickly and often as they did.  The dancing was amazing, the music was amazing.  The best scene for the show was when they hand a cheetah chasing after a pack of defenseless animals.  The blocking of this scene was amazing.  The skaters were moving at very fast speeds, and it made it look like the cheetah was really attacking.  I love when all but one of the animals left the stage and it hand to face the cheetah, it dance was amazing and was cool how they were dancing and showing that they were fight against each other.    This was probably one of the best shows I’ve seen this year.  I would love to go see it again.  I recommended this show to everyone.  Go enjoy it.