Tuacahn Amphitheater's Little Mermaid

Last night I went and saw Little Mermaid at the Tuacahn Amphitheater in St. George Utah.
Tuacahn Center for the Arts puts on a few musicals every year, and each year they grow more extravagant and beautiful! But they really outdid themselves on the this one! Coming from a theater geek I really enjoyed this classic tale of a little mermaid that would give anything to live on land and to marry prince Eric, even her voice.
The Tuacahn stage is an outdoor theater so they have some troubles coming up with different techniques to make the play seem as realistic as possible. Like using a fly system to move the actors around in the air, or flooding the stage to make it seem like the boat was really on water. But my favorite technique was the water curtain that they projected images of water and other psychedelic images upon. It really created the scene of an underwater world.
My second favorite thing about tuacahn is they have an amazing costume crew that creates some pretty unique ways to portray different characters, such as the mermaids. An interesting thing about the stage is that you cant really move if you have fins. So the costume crew created outfits that mad it look like they had fins, but they could still move around on stage very easily.
Let me tell you, this year the costume crew really hit a home run when they created Ursulas costume and her eel minions. They went all out on Ursula's costume, using a jazz scooter (the motor wheel chairs) to move her around the set. Then when her eel minions came out on stage they had florescent lights attached to their costumes like scales! Every time they got excited or "shocked" someone the lights would flicker a different color like blue or purple to cause an amazing lighting effect!! Every costume had purpose and bright colors that glowed in the dark when the black lights came on for certain scenes. It all look so spectacular that I wondered how they came up with such ideas for the costumes.
To continue the list of how brilliant this show was we move on to the set!
Their set was incredible piece of art, from the coral reef under the "sea" to the brilliant ship up on land it was truly a masterpiece. each piece moved in with such grace that you had no time to worry about the set changes or to forget that you were not really in the little mermaid land. I could not believe how big the pieces were and how much they moved them!! But none the less they carried on the show with such elegance that you would never think that anything could go wrong. (Of course things always go wrong in theater)
Every aspect of this show was done to the extreme, but it mad to be one impeccable piece of art that I would see over and over again! In fact I might go again next week.

So if you live in the Southern Utah area, or are willing to travel for a beautiful piece of theatrical artwork; I would recommend coming to see Tuacahn Amphitheater's Little Mermaid.
Call in fast because I was told that they have had 16 consecutive sell outs just this month!