The Little Mermaid Live!

Surprised that Disney's live versions of their classics are just not up to par. This might have been fun to watch in the live audience, especially for children, but it lost it's glimmer on TV. The performances were lacking and except for Queen Latifa the singing was not good. And the biggest surprise was the costumes were horrible. Looked worse than a high school play. Disney, you need to stay away from these live, theater like performances In My Humble Opinion!

Luckily they didn't dub over the animated film with the live actors, so that was good. The stage production parts were amazing, and I would have loved to see more. As others have said, the audio could have been better. Often, you don't hear the first minute of all the songs. As usual for me with these live productions, I felt the live performers could have used more rehearsal time.

Embarrassing and hideous, a shrieking disaster. I've seen better high-school productions. And everyone was TOO OLD.

Without a doubt, the worst job of sound engineering I've heard in years. Half the time you couldn't make out the lead vocals over the crowd noise. And since the songs were the only real "live" performance, why bother?

I love live theatre. I love musical theatre. But, I'm still struggling to be excited by this new wave of Live TV productions of classic musical theatre, classic TV shows and now animated classics. This one set itself a gigantic task to perform live a story that was about mythical worlds is both on land and under the sea where the primary character is confined to sitting. What, in fact, they did was project the original animated movie for the story and interposed live performances of the songs. I can only image it was a spectacular feast for those in the live theatre: puppets, aerials (cum Cirque du Soleil), characters in costumes, dancers and stars belting out award winning songs. However, even on my big screen TV, it failed to capture the excitement that must have been in the studio. I also didn't find all the stars up to the task. Queen Latifah was absolutely perfect. Graham Phillips was a revelation, his voice and bearing befitting a prince (who knew Zack had such hidden talents?). Auli'l Cravalho's beautiful voice was compromised by aerial harnesses and by being forced to sing sitting because of her fish tail (she was breathless and pitchy). Shaggy and John Stamos were just plain bad casting giving cringe worthy performers. This production just didn't translate to its medium despite some genius elements. I give this production a 6 (fair) out of 10. {Live Rebrand of Animated Classic}