“The Little Mermaid”~ Pre-Broadway Engagement, OPENING NIGHT!!

I LOVE Live Theatre!: "I had been wondering how they would make the fish and merfolk move around the stage. Surely they would not suspend all of them on wires to make them swim through the sea . . . no instead, they coasted with ease across the stage on what else? Heelys!!! It was very cool how they incorporated those shoes into the costumes. Basically, the merfolk had long, skirt like costumes with a mermaid tale curving out the back so if they were to lean over behind something (their legs disappearing) they looked like a mermaid. The skirt-like costumes hid their legs and your eyes were drawn more to the mermaid tales. When they coasted it appeared that they were swimming. Pretty cool."