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Wow! by far the best kids show to date! All my kids of different ages loved it! My husband and I were pleasantly surprised as to how good it was! Acting was fantastic, story was great! I have nothing but good things to say! Hope there is another Scooby Doo show! I would definately go back to see this one!
Good performance. Enjoyed by the adults as much as the kids.
We were really looking forward to seeing "The Gang" and hoped that the stage show would follow in the footsteps of the new "Mystery Inc" cartoon now playing, which has great writing and character acting. It was not to be. This live show is a poor approximation of Scooby. Scooby Dooby Don't, if you will. The sets and scenery wave back and forth, likely due to the amount of chewing the actors are doing on it. The hamming was way over the top, even for a kids show. The plot was absolutely, completely, inexcusably convoluted and nonsensical. A tween behind me kept heckling "OH COME ON!" when yet another ludicrous manoever was pulled on stage. The songs were...awful. There is no other description. Honestly, when we actually could hear what was being said (which was not often) the lyrics were just appalling. Poor rhyming, ridiculous set ups...lyrics that no kid would comprehend nor find amusing. Just, plain old awful. Never again. BOOOOO!
Our entire family enjoyed it, a great show for a family outing.
I took my granddaughter, who is a scooby-doo fan. she had fun and clapped along and danced in her seat.
Considering the age of the audience, I would have liked to see more interaction with the kids. Also, the accoustics in the Sony Centre are not great, making the words difficult to understand. I thought the activity level of the characters was not energetic enough for such a young audience.
The kids (6 and 4) both enjoyed the show. It was fun for the adults too. The characters sounded like the tv show and the set/ props were great. The plot was kind of lame and a scarier monster would have been fun.
I was disappointed in the overall performance and Sony Centre! My 5 year old sat through it but many of the kids were bored. Targeted more to the 8 or 9 year old and even they didn't look like they were having a great time. It didn't go unnoticed by my 5 year old that the ghost had to put the net over himself when it missed him and that he couldn't get his mask off because it was tangled in his hair! The Sony Centre sent out a note promoting that you could eat at the Centre but there were limited seats so we sat on the floor to eat.. I purchased a Scooby-Doo soft toy for $35 and when we got home and read the tag it said "not for re-sale must be given as a prize" really....
Great show!!!! Audience interaction was great. My daughter really had a blast and so did I!
I took my three grandchildren to the Friday show. They are 8 years old & 2 are 6 years old. We were in KK row. It was an extremely fun outting for all of us. The boys said to their mother on the weekend that the outting with Gramma to Scooby Doo was the highlight of March break for them. My Granddaughter said she like it better than the other shows she has gone to this year. (Strawberry Shortcake, Oz etc.)
I took my 6 year old to this show and while he enjoyed the show, I could not help feeling that this show dramatically undershot any potential of what this could have been. As parents and patrons, I believe we need to set a higher expectations that "my kids liked it" as the measure of success of a $50 a seat stage show! The staging was ridiculously simple with only 9 actors and very basic sets that would have been more appropriate to a high school play than a show of this stature. The biggest special effect was a bubble machine that threw bubbles a whopping 10 feet into the audience whenever a character went into the cardboard bathtub set. The story / plot was a real reach and the musical numbers had little or no lasting value. Audience participation and involvement was almost non-existent except for the kids being asked to yell "ghost" whenever the phantom appeared on stage. I have seen many shows with my kids, and this one was among the poorest I have attended. How to Train Your Dragon Live, Imagination Movers Concert, and The Lion King are still amongst our favourites, all being examples of shows that raise our children's expectations and challenge their thinking rather than pandering down to them. Add to the low quality of the show, the typical overpriced toddler-targeted merchandise (I had to talk my 6 year old out of a $15 candy-filled fan that wouldn't sell for $2 at Walmart) and overpriced, uninspired concession food ($4 for a tiny bag of popcorn) and you are left with an very expensive outing that will likely be completely forgotten by your kids 2 days later. I suggest that parents save their money and avoid this show completely, I'd also like the people who book these shows and sell us tickets to hold the producers to a much higher standard. I take my kids to these shows to raise their expectations about what entertainment can be. Scooby Doo Live, was in my opinion just a very expensive waste of 90 minutes ... and that's only because they had a 25 minute intermission, that could have been 10!
As far as the show goes, we enjoyed the performance very much. I had thought it would have been a bit more complex and targeted to a slighter older child but overall it was a fun show. My complaint is the audience. They asked for people not to use flash photography and yet constantly throughout the show parents were flashing away and not being considerate of the performers or the audience. They were holding up their screen devices for long periods of time which as we all know it distracting. A lady a few rows ahead of me spent a good part of the show surfing her phone device which was very annoying. The ushers did their best and asked people repeatedly to stop and yet as soon as they walked away they were right back to using the device. I found this very rude. I think there needed to be more action taken to stop the flash photography and video taping. What are these parents teaching their children....
My 4 year-old soon to be 5 year old grandson didn't like it and he said he was scared so we left at intermission. I found that the sound was loud but not clear for the speaking parts (and I am a young grandmother with no hearing problems). We have been to many other shows in the past and this is the first time that my grandson was not enthralled. I would only recomend the event if someone is a die-hard fan of Scooby-Doo.
Scoobie Doo was amazingly done and great for kids!
I really felt like seeing this show was a complete waste of money. Anyone above the age of 4 would be bored stiff. The gang's singing and acting was fair, but they didn't have a lot to work with. The plot was scarily thin. There was only three other cast members apart from the gang and one of them (a stage hand) was a non-speaking/sing role until the very end of show - one of other (non-gang) characters had only a few words until the end of the show. There was a set change every 3 minutes, several massive mistakes on stages (eg the ghost having to trap himself!!!), and the show only lasted an hour in total. It was a 30 minutes first half, followed by a 25 minute intermission and another 30 minutes for the second half. We literally spent more time travelling to see this show than we did watching this show.
Scooby Doo was amazing because of how good the performance was. The actors were very prepared and talented. The music was catchy and upbeat. I loved the part where the Mystery Machine came on stage. The appearance of the ghost was exciting but scary for some of the little kids. The storyline was okay, but not all that clear in its resolution of why the theater had been haunted. Overall it was enjoyable.
We went to see Scooby Doo live with my 3 year old daughter and my 5 year old son. They loved the show! The show had their attention the entire time. The only negative thing I could say would be that I am not sure they both understood who the ghost was at the end of the show when they solved the mystery.
My sister and I took her kids to see Scooby doo live for her son's sixth birthday. I was very impressed by the sets and the costumes. I thought the acting was well done (a little campy and over the top but that is what is needed to pull this off). The ghost was scary without being too scary. It was alot of fun. A well done show for a great price.
