The Ice Version

Fun review of what appears to have been a fun show:

For anyone going to "High School Musical: The Ice Tour" who hadn't seen one of these productions in 25 or 30 years, the sensory overload could have been enough to cause a nervous breakdown. Not that anyone would hear the screams above the squeals of pleasure coming from the thousands of elementary schoolgirls and a few stylishly dressed men.

Say what you want about the traveling show that came to the Oracle Arena in Oakland for four shows between Thursday and Saturday (the show goes to San Jose this week) - nothing about it was small. The production had a chronological narrative that clumsily recapped the events in both "High School Musical" and "High School Musical 2," but the show was more about the production values than the story or even the music. Aided by a drive-in-size video screen, countless metal props and enough scaffolding to paint Danielle Steel's house twice, the frosty surface of the arena was transformed at different times into a karaoke bar, a school cafeteria, a baseball field and a golf course.

Was it any good? I'm not completely sure, because I'm not a 9-year-old girl.