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fastsalad · 5 years

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The middle school production of Undertale the Musical I that I watched a couple of nights ago seems a bit like a weird fever dream now so I thought I’d watch it again and post my thoughts. Reactions and reviews under the cut:

-I was wrong about them misgendering Frisk and I apologize, they said genderless child at least ten times in the intro.

-They used the intro from the game as a little slideshow/overture in the beginning, which would have been fine if the person who was managing it hadn’t moved the mouse, causing the little YouTube thing to show up on the bottom.

-There are a crap ton of technical difficulties in this show a couple being: Music randomly starting and stopping for no reason, EXTREMELY long transitions, I’m talking like 5 minutes, and poor lighting, video and audio quality.

-Flowey was a phenomenal actor, but not the best singer. It did not help at all that his music quit out on him halfway through the song and he had to sing a’capella.

-Toriel was good singer, but her acting was kind of flat. (I’m not going to blame her, she’s young.)

-Did I mention the lighting could be horrendous at times? And that random crashing noises would happen in the middle of scenes for no reason?

-From what I saw, Heartache had some really cool visual effects, but I could barely see anything because of the horrendous lighting.

-Toriel sang a nice possibly original song after Heartache, but it was a little hard to follow because there was no background music. (And I might be wrong about the Frisk’s gender thing? I can’t tell what Tori’s saying but it kind of sounded like little girl)

-Did I mention Flowey is absolutely hilarious?

-The Sans scene had some strange blocking and the music malfunctioned, but overall it was alright.

-PAPYRUS IS THE BEST ACTOR IN THIS SHOW AND I LOVE HIM

-He has the best costume too.

-They had the cutest little setpiece for Snowdin.

-The lights got kind of unnecessarily weird when Papyrus showed up but it didn’t affect the scene too much.

-This wansn’t an actual part of the show, but I found it hilarious when either Frisk or Sans’ mic was on during a scene change and they kept repeatedly whispering: “WHERE’S THE JACKET GIMME THE JACKET I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE JACKET IS” because we’ve all been there.

-The annoying dog was played by an actual dog and that was an absolute gem.

-Did I mention how in character Papyrus is? And that I can actually hear him?

-Papyrus literally reminds me of me when I was 11.

-Frisk asked: “Does Grillby’s have food” and I found that absolutely hilarious for some reason.

-There might have been a music malfunction before Bonetroustle, and if it was a malfunction then Sans Papyrus handled it FABULOUSLY with their imrpov skills.

-Papyrus’ singing kinda sounded like shouting and he was a little off-key but he was tap-dancing so bonus points for making my vision come true.

-There was a Chara and Asriel scene which was cute but I could barely tell what was going on because of the light and sound.

-The entirety of the first Waterfall scene was so dark I legitimately could not see.

-There was a very cute and funny scene in Temmie Village, but it went on for so long I kinda felt like I was hallucinating.

-Undyne pulled out an extemely long scroll when she referenced her speech and then immediately threw it away when she said screw it.

-Papyrus answered the phone with, “Hellow human, it is I... WALUIGIIIIII!!!!!!! Wait wrong number.

-Undyne made some nice character choices.

-”Why are you calling me if you’re standing right there?”

-Undyne chased Frisk around the aisles which I greatly appreciated.

-Alphys was making one of those coke and mentos things when Frisk walked into the lab.

-And she was wearing pajama pants which I appreciated.

-”I’ve been watching you all this time-” “Well that’s not creepy at all.”

-Frisk is very salty in this show.

-Mettaton was a person literally wearing what looked like a trifold with armholes. I don’t know whether that was a poor or amazing costume choice.

-They included intermission in the video which was kind of annoying to have to skip through.

-Since Mettaton couldn’t see he had to be escorted around by another person which I first thought was a poor choice until the guy said, “I”m not your slaaaave.” Then I thought it was a hilarious choice.

-Since Papyrus couldn’t take a flying leap through the window during the Undyne date so he just kid of awkwardly wiggled out the window.

-”Why don’t you use the door?” “THE DOOR IS FOR WHIMPS! THE WINDOW IS FOR THE GREAT PAPYRUS!” “Are you caLLING ME A WIMP?”

-Sans showed up at one point and started playing the trombone for no reason.

-”Oh my god I just burned your house down I am sooo sorry.”

-The sound definitely got better during the second act and there weren't as many malfunctions.

-Muffet had a rather strange costume.

-Spider Dance had some nice choreography but the ensemble wasn’t really all that energetic about it.

-Spider Dance was overall a kind of weird scene.

-Mettaton had a rather strange singing voice but it wasn’t necessarily bad.

-Aaaaaaand now he’s off-key.

-Honestly everybody in this musical is off-key at this point. Mettaton’s off-keyness was probably just a result of the song being too low for the actor.

-The MTT resort waitress had a ROCKIN’ costume for a character that wan’t even in the game.

-Sans: “YOU’D BE DEAD. RIGHT WHERE YOU STAND.” (Blackout as he runs away)

-Let me just say Burgerpants was AMAZING.

-Sans and Papyrus showed up at Burgerpants’ shop for literally no reason but it was kinda funny. I like how this show went off-script in llittle ways.

-Mettaton’s slave: (Fixes mtt’s costume)

-I’m pretty sure mtt’s slave was played by the guy who played Flowey which is hilarious.

-Mtt had some nice backup dancers.

-Frisk: “Well those Broadway people are... narcissistic.”

-There was kind of an awkward pause before Death by Glamour where everyone just kinda stood still while the music played.

-Mettaton EX’s costume was really cool but the hair was a bit weird in my opinion.

-Undyne and Papyrus literally showed up during Death by Glamour.

-Papyrus and Mettaton started dancing together at some point in the song and let me just say the choreography was ROCKIN.

-Honestly though the minute they called Mettaton ‘She’ I kinda noped out on this show.

-Frisk had some rad fake crying.

-Undertale was a cool dream sequence or something I don’t really know what it was but it was cool.

-Narrator: “One day, a human fell down below the mountain.” Chara: (Falls on their face)

-Asgore’s costume was very strange.

-Asgore: (Fighting Frisk) Toriel: (Runs in) “ASGORE YOU USELESS PIECE OF TRASH!”

-They skipped over all the true lab stuff so there was no Alphdyne and I lost most of my faith in this show.

-They made Papyton a thing and I would have been happy about that if they hadn’t made mettaton a friCKEN FEMALE

-Asriel had the best costume in the show everyone else go home.

-He also had some neat flying effects.

-Dreemurr family reunion awwwwww

-NEVERMIND BABY ALPHDYNE IS IN THIS SHOW I’M ECSTATIC

-(Toriel and Frisk having a tender moment) (Cue Mettaton and Papyrus running around the audience screaming)

-THE ANNOYING DOG WAS PLAYED BY FLOWEY

There’s what I think is a Q&A at the end so I’ll talk about that and post my overall review of this show later.

#undertale #undertale the musical #toriel #frisk #sans #papyrus #undyne #alphys #mettaton #asgore #asriel

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