Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Small World Order," written by Doug Rand, with score by Adam Levitin, is billed by its creators as a "mega-multimedia demonstration." Entering the theater, patrons are received by a greeter in a Disney visor who gives a standard "welcome to the theme park" speech and escorts each ticket holder to the seating area. This is all very funny the first time it happens, but if you're waiting in line, it grows tedious rather quickly...
Inside the theater, the pace picks up immediately. A laboratory set reveals the head of Walt Disney, played by Lorenzo Moreno '00, flanked by Albert Einstein (Scott Brown '98) and Mary Lou Retton (Kate DeLima '97). Moreno uses his head to wonderful effect, betraying 1,001 emotions throughout the course of the play...
...strengths of "Virtual School" are the strengths of "Small World Order": the play works best when it functions as pure satire. But when Rand attempts to seriously critique the Disney Empire for its insensitivity to minorities and women and for its culture of conformity, his dialogue is clunky, overly obvious and heavy-handed...
...well integrated within the play as the main characters are. When performed, several of the pieces come off as awkward and unrehearsed. The one exception (which may in fact excuse the rule) was certainly the seamless crowd-favorite "Virtual School," a witty, fast-paced description of the Disney curriculum for children...
McCollum is a tough-on-crime Republican in a district that contains the nation's family-values Mecca: Disney World. He has also backed a bill to apply the death penalty to drug kingpins and supported efforts to double U.S. border patrols--potent issues in Florida, and the eight-term incumbent apparently knows...