It starts with a 12-year-old boy named Josh Baskin who makes a wish at a Zoltar Speaks fortune telling machine to be "big" after being too he is too short to ride a carnival ride. This backfires as his wish comes true overnight, and little Josh has turned into a grown-up. Forced to leave his home, his friend, Billy, helps to find another Zoltar machine to wish him back into being a kid again, while Josh learns to cope and fit in the adult world by being hired by a failing toy company. As the days pass, Josh finds himself conflicted between abandoning his family and friends for success and the first woman he is falling in love with and vice versa.
I saw the 1988 movie a few months ago and as an adaptation goes, and a musical one for that matter, I liked it a lot, especially with how this production created a spectacular performance. With a cast of teenagers and preteens, with the exception of Zoltar, I really did love and appreciate to see young actors start out in their careers and show that they can pull all the stops to give one hundred percent effort into a great performance, despite that one or two voices weren't exactly great. Another problem I did have with the musical was the acoustics and technical problems with mics on those singing. The playhouse is a really small theater and a lot of times the orchestra was overpowering the singers and I couldn't hear any singing. There were even instances where the actors were trying so hard to sing loudly but the mics made static and other problems. It didn't help I could hear the technicians in the sound booth who clearly have no idea what whispering is.
Other than that I have little complaints. The actors brought their A-game, the sets were cleverly designed to just roll on and off and I really did enjoy a musical adaptation of such a good movie. I wish broken legs to the rest of the performances of Big.
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