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The Little Mermaid. By Mike Kenny. Dir. Eric Johnson. Perf. Herman Tesoro Jr. and Mary Wells. Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Tenney Theatre, Honolulu. 15 Sept. 2007.
Mike Kenny's stage adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, first performed in 2005 by York Theatre Royal and Polka Theatre in London, adapts Andersen's 1837 fairy tale of the same name, but nods at the legacy created by Walt Disney Pictures' 1989 animated film with the naming of the characters. The play imagines how children living in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the time of the publication of Andersen's fairy tale would have told the little mermaid's story In September 2007 the Honolulu Theatre for Youth in Honolulu, Hawai'i, performed Kenny's The Little Mermaid under the wonderful direction of Eric Johnson.
The play tells the story of Flotsam and Jetsam, two children who enact Andersen's story while playing on a pier. The characters share their names with the eel-minions created by Disney for Ursula the...
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