Review:- "Mixed reaction
for Disney on Ice"
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THE Magical Ice Festival that took place at Echo Arena Liverpool over, but reviews being given about this show, which was held over 18 March to 22 March 2015 have been very mixed. It was almost a sell out on the opening night thanks to the fantastic PR it received. The event proved that it would "whisk you away to the wintery world of Disney.", however, for adults, it might have missed some of the enchantment it had promised. But for kids, it seemed to be an exciting site, especially with the highlight, Frozen, which was unsurprisingly left until the end, but only to a point. The most magical moments for the children were probably those with snowman Olaf, also Ariel, from The Little Mermaid did pull some of the audience out of their shells at times.... Other than that I don't know what to say about this show. The skating was of an extremely good standard, but the actual performance itself was hard to follow. Personally, I felt it went on too long and many of the children, in my view, had appeared to get too tired when staying until the end. I had spotted that families had seemed to been waiting for Frozen to come on, but some clearly gave up and started to leave before the finale. Possibly Disney had hoped that by having it on at the end it would have kept the children interested. I don't want to knock the show too much as it is a fantastic experience and a good idea; it was just the length that was the major issue. When adults appear to be bored, you know you have issues to address about attention spans. Ok, it is for children, but I have never seen this at a Disney event before... I could see lots of people on their phones, in fact the person in front of me was watching a football game on his iPad and someone else was playing games on their phone. As I said the performers were great, with the usual variety of characters Beauty and The Beast, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, The Little Mermaid, Tangled and of course Frozen... but it was just too long. Sorry, it was not a hit with me this time!
