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[winter]

I've been missing in action not so much due to fyrie, as to a lurgy that was too close to what ailed me in Ireland for comfort. Still, antibiotics took care of it and I even managed to spend a full day at work today before hitting the theatre.

As fyrie said, Akademia Pana Kleksa, the new musical at Roma theatre has:

a singing robot, Frankenstein, Mortal Kombat, Cirque du Soleil, roller skating, digeridoos, ninjas, mad hairdresser villains, and 8-9 foot dirigible flying around the audience, slingshots, Albus Dumbledore's younger, insaner brother, a Harry Potter clone, an egg-head Elvis, origami puppets and a giant frog conducting the orchestra

The bits she missed are the samba dancing (ON rollerskates), scooters, high-wire acts, invisible dogs, House of Flying Daggers dancing, love potions, a mermaid in love with a crab, conveyor belt almost killing someone, ironing a beard, and a song about a weird duck who turns out to be a roast rabbit. With a side dish of beetroot.

And on top of it all, the music is quite nice. I need to go again, I think. Luckily my nephew wants to visit :>

Comments

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

What does the musical´s name translate as in English?

Laughed myself silly while reading your description and now am attempting to imagine said musical.

[winter]

Mr Inkblot's Academy, basically :> And it's like... Albus Dumbledore's younger, cooler and much more drugged-up brother's magical school, where you eat colours and get handed freckles instead of grades, gets invaded by the Frankenstein-boy made by an evil hairdresser. Said boy steals Mr Inkblot's secrets (given to him by an ancient Chinese master in Salamanca - cue flashback with ninjas and didgeridoos) and escapes onto a series of islands, each weirder than the previous one.

Only with more crack in it.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Now that sounds like fun!

Hope you're completely recovered from the lurgy now.

[winter]

Partly :) It did make me ditch yesterday's ball after two hours, alas. Then again, that probably saved my eardrums - samba-themed, but the DJ had 3 samba songs in total and kept playing them at full volume to make up for it :/