{"id":69,"date":"2009-12-25T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2009\/12\/25\/little-house-on-the-prairie-the-musical-reviewed-for-kids-first-by-danny-diaz\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T18:57:00","slug":"little-house-on-the-prairie-the-musical-reviewed-for-kids-first-by-danny-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2009\/little-house-on-the-prairie-the-musical-reviewed-for-kids-first-by-danny-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Little House on the  Prairie, The Musical &#8211; Reviewed for KIDS FIRST! by Danny Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/The-Buell-Theatre-tickets-Denver\/venue\/245765\">&#8220;Little House on the Prairie, The Musical&#8221;<\/a> currently has shows running at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscomplex.com\/Venues\/TempleHoyneBuellTheatre\/tabid\/69\/Default.aspx\">The Buell Theatre<\/a> located in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denvercenter.org\/Home.aspx\">Denver Performing Arts Complex.<\/a> &nbsp;The musical is the first attempt at a new way to experience the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder\">Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlehousebooks.com\/\">&#8220;Little House&#8221; Books.<\/a> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<div>Filmmaker, Danny Diaz, who just received a first place KIDS FIRST! award for his film, Drama Kids reviewed the show for us this week. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a filmmaker I&#8217;m always skeptical about other entertainment mediums, the &#8220;Little House&#8221; musical put all those fears to rest. &nbsp;The live theatrics boasts a beautiful frontier world created with simple set designs and costumes that rival any major motion picture. &nbsp;The 1800s come alive all around the stage.<\/div>\n<div>The visual effects play an important role as the cast moves west, fights disasters, gets caught in blizzards, and competes in outrageous horse races. &nbsp;During the race, the children around me began to sit up higher and higher as their eyes began to open wider and wider. &nbsp;As much as the ancillary effects assist in the storytelling, the cast brought a new level of space and movement to the theater with their own brand of live-action slow motion to create many mesmerizing visuals sure to capture all.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the rest of the review, go to&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-11755-Denver-Film-Industry-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d24-Little-House-on-the-Prairie-showing-how-films-are-made#\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-11755-Denver-Film-Industry-Examiner~y2009m12d24-Little-House-on-the-Prairie-showing-how-films-are-made#<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/littlehousethemusical.com\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Little House on the Prairie, The Musical&#8221; currently has shows running at the The Buell Theatre located in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. &nbsp;The musical is the first attempt at a new way to experience the Laura Ingalls Wilder &#8220;Little House&#8221; Books. &nbsp; Filmmaker, Danny Diaz, who just received a first place KIDS FIRST! award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}