Frozen phase musical combines icy spectacle with human heat

Frozen

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, LONDON

Action on to the Strand, central London, at close to teatime these days and you will discover by yourself in the existence of royalty: dozens of little women, kitted out in sparkly blue princess dresses, weaving their way in direction of the inspiration for their outfits — Elsa, the ice queen at the heart of Frozen.

Immediately after a pandemic-enforced hold off, the phase musical of Disney’s 2013 animated movie lastly sweeps into city like a snowstorm, transforming the phase of the (gloriously) refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane into a glittering ice palace and placing woman power entrance and centre. For Frozen’s attract — apart from the earworm-inducing selection “Let It Go” — is its neat subversion of the traditional fairytale, producing sisterly love the force that saves the working day.

Created by Jennifer Lee, with new music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the Snow Queen-motivated clearly show tells the story of Elsa, a Nordic princess who has magical frosty powers she just cannot manage. When she unintentionally freezes her minimal sister, Anna, their mother and father decide to individual them. A rapprochement when Elsa turns into queen potential customers to catastrophe: Elsa ices above equally her kingdom and her coronary heart and retreats into chilly seclusion Anna attempts to get by to her. Equally are brave and self-sacrificing and it’s their deep appreciate for 1 a different that inevitably thaws the spell.

On stage, that concept gains