Dino World: A Shave-O-Saurus Rex
Dino World: A Shave-O-Saurus Rex
Directed by Cody David Price
Book and Lyrics by Justin Hughes and Taylor Schwarz
Starring Sam Waters, Julian Kazenas and Taylor Wright
Porch Light Productions
Orange Venue
The 2016 Orlando International Fringe Festival
Orlando, FL</strong>
Take one part Jurassic park, one part Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and one part half-naked dinosaur, and you’ve got a Fringe show. Little Timmy Bucket (Kazenas) loves dinosaurs, and there’s a contest to see them live on an island where they’ve been re-created from a speck of DNA and a box of plot points . Timmy finds the winning ticket in a can of shaving cream and he’s off to the Island of Poor Safety Measures. Here Timmy meets big game hunter Andy (Arius West), the Mad Scientist Hammond (Waters) and the Soon to be Dead Mela (Dana Rozier). Off they go to see their fates; the corrupt scientist Newman (Christopher Luis-Jorge) turns off the electric fence to steal some DNA, and soon Timmy is confronted with the not all that scary A-Rex (Wright) and his dino chorus line (Reigan Paulovich, Maddie Crump, and MiKayla Phillips.)
The concept has merit, the story is movie-land plausible and has some fun music like “Hurray for Dinosaurs!” But overall the show seems sketched in and not completely connected. Sam Waters is surprisingly creepy as the Island owner, Little Timmy bubble with a victim like enthusiasm, and the A-Rex dino will appeal to a wide section of the festival audience. It’s worth a look, and the dino chorus line is sort of sexy in a reptilian way.
This commentary was prepared from a technical rehearsal.
This show was presented as part of the 2016 Orlando Fringe Festival for show times, tickets and more information please visit . http://orlandofringe.org/
