the finding nemo musical and impending doom

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  • in which Max tries to understand Finding Nemo the Musical but he gets all existential about it.
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  • @user-xy7yx8zv5m
    @user-xy7yx8zv5m 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1641

    "all puppets should just be muppets" SO TRUE, YOU GET ME

    • @Imtoby939
      @Imtoby939 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Timestamp rn pls I demand it

    • @tortoiseoflegends4466
      @tortoiseoflegends4466 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      War Horse but it's a Muppet instead.

    • @alliedog6678
      @alliedog6678 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Imtoby9398:54 i believe

    • @rena-dt4oy
      @rena-dt4oy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      we have the exact same pfp what’s going onnnn

    • @paigemorabito4770
      @paigemorabito4770 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      How about audrey 2

  • @SteveJubs
    @SteveJubs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +460

    Really can’t get enough of Nemo looking like a haunted little Victorian child

    • @Measuresderepo
      @Measuresderepo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      “haunted little Victorian child” I DIED

  • @stupidbandkid741
    @stupidbandkid741 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1123

    I sort of agree with the “all puppets should be muppets”, but I would also argue that Starship by Starkid has excellent puppetry that can emote surprisingly well.

    • @fvcking_r4t
      @fvcking_r4t 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      Fs!! Starships puppets really impressed me!

    • @theflickchick9850
      @theflickchick9850 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      The Starship puppets kinda reminded me of Muppets tbh.

    • @ThatDudeWithBoobs
      @ThatDudeWithBoobs 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They were probably thoroughly inspired by Muppets tbh, especially Pincer. The mechanics of multiple puppeteers working one character is very Snuffy from Sesame Street, and while Pincer is a much bigger scale and required at least 3 actors for the face and claws, the multi person puppet structure was shown to be possible through Jim Henson's work.

    • @stupidbandkid741
      @stupidbandkid741 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh that’s a really good point @@ThatDudeWithBoobs

    • @ryebread5658
      @ryebread5658 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      The dude who plays crush is giving big “Kick It Up a Notch” energy

  • @gigi2820
    @gigi2820 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +572

    11:56 I hate how prepared I was to just accept that the vine boom was just part of the actual sounds of the show

    • @captaincrazycreative
      @captaincrazycreative 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Hey! I would not have expected to see you here. I love your epic animatics!

    • @freyadoesitall
      @freyadoesitall 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      hey! your animatics absolutely make my day! keep it up!

  • @CharliXCXismymom
    @CharliXCXismymom 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +468

    “Go with the flow” has been one of my go to audition songs since I was 12 and every director always asks where the song is from and I’m like finding Nemo the musical

    • @giulianapuro
      @giulianapuro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      oh to be a middle age theatre director being serenaded by a 12 year old screlting go with the flow 😌

    • @Winkiez
      @Winkiez 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Go with the flow just hits different man

    • @brynncess2228
      @brynncess2228 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I've always loved this song

  • @ambroseandersonmusic
    @ambroseandersonmusic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +200

    EPCOT cast member here! A nice conversation piece when someone hands you their Disney ID to use their discount is, “so where do you make magic?” Last month, while I was ringing up a guest and applying their discount, I asked, and he said he’s one of the puppeteers for Crush in the musical! Has to be the coolest response I’ve gotten by far.

  • @user-uv3vn3rl5x
    @user-uv3vn3rl5x 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +512

    I am obsessed with how uncanny the puppets look haha. Another musical you should check out is Turnabout: An Ace Attorney Musical! It's an original musical made entirely by strangers on the internet over 15 years and came out earlier this year!

    • @k.e.d.
      @k.e.d. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      This! It was interesting to see what they changed to adapt the game to a musical. So many people have been working on it over the years and it’s clear how much effort they put into it. Plus, one of the songs won against a rent song on some sort of tumblr voting bracket lol

    • @idkany293
      @idkany293 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      WAIT I KNOW THAT MUSICAL
      That's the one by Matthew Taranto right? He's not a stranger, he actually made a freaking webcomic about Nintendo characters. HE MADE BRAWL IN THE FAMILY
      And nowadays he actually works for Nintendo Force Magazine, making comics and such.
      Ok i just checked and he along with his wife were credited for the music and lyrics... alongside a dozen other people. But yeah, they did make an entire album long ago.

  • @thosefroggyfolks2004
    @thosefroggyfolks2004 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    0:29 I love how even though you can clearly see him pulling the trigger, that puppet’s lips are barely moving. Like, forget about making a clear picture for the back row, the first row can’t even see it.

  • @jits8767
    @jits8767 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +211

    to me the meme has two important factors -
    1. the intensity of the puppet and the song paired with the stripped down casual context of the actor.
    2. the childhood nostalgia and feelings that should be irrelevant for adults/millenials but in their simplicity strike an emotion that speaks to a universal experience but are able to be transformed into self-mockery when combined with the absurdity of point 1
    hope this helps!

  • @raidenriot
    @raidenriot 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    A Turning Red musical would actually be really interesting because they could potentially mix musicals elements with the early 2000s boy band vibes from 4TOWN. Part of why people love the movie so much is the band so it would make sense

  • @trashgod7095
    @trashgod7095 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    i love that giant pelican puppet so so much but you KNOW several kids have screamed in terror at it. I want it in my house.

    • @mollycblaeser
      @mollycblaeser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They got rid of him 😭

  • @literally_a_crow
    @literally_a_crow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +254

    you just unlocked my memory of seeing this eight years ago. somehow I didn't remember it was a musical, i just remembered the puppets.

  • @samking7955
    @samking7955 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +207

    I went to Disneyworld around 2016. My family saw this musical in its original form, and we all loved it! The Bruce, Crush and Nigel puppets are now core memories. After the show was over me and my siblings asked if we could see it again (we didn't) but our mom realized how much we loved the show and bought us the cast recording. That C.D. was the only C.D. we had in our car for years so we would listen to it on repeat. At this point, I basically have the entire show memorized. This all came full circle when me and my sisters performed in Finding Nemo Jr. I play Bloat the pufferfish, one of my sisters was Nigel, and the other was in a ton of ensembles parts. I know this show is flawed but I deeply love the musical and the movie.

    • @charlieorr2875
      @charlieorr2875 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      almost the same exact story with me!

    • @mollycblaeser
      @mollycblaeser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I miss the Nigel puppet! I was so excited to show my partner the larger-than-life pelican last year -- but they cut Nigel from the new show 😭

  • @BroadwayBrittany
    @BroadwayBrittany 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Another musical you might wanna get on your radar is Death Note: The Musical. Yes, really, I’m not kidding. Need convincing? The music is by Frank Wildhorn. Yes, THAT ONE. Not only that, but an actual English production of the show (originally only performed in Japan and South Korea) is set to debut in London very soon. It’s amazing and I cannot WAIT to see how it’s official English debut turns out.

    • @Moocow2003
      @Moocow2003 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Okay so I'm just here to tell you that Frank Wildhorn made a Your Lie In April musical too and it's really GOOD. And he's recently announced that he's making Fist of the North Star. Frank Wildhorn fans and fans of bizarre anime musicals are eating so good

  • @compassrose1466
    @compassrose1466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Props to the man who does Marlin’s part as he works basically EVERY show and same with Dory! They all have such good acting! I love these puppets but the reason is because it’s not about the puppets. You’re supposed to also watch the expressions of the humans! They emote in the puppets but the actual actors have the actual expressions. Also Crush’s huge puppet and the bike for the teacher sting ray are SO cool! I love this show so much. It’s so good! It makes me miss the little mermaid one. The building got molded so they don’t open it anymore :(
    Edit: I mentioned the Nigel puppet as I saw it as a kid but yeah they got rid of it 😭 I think it was destroyed in storage :(

  • @MareTigeress2
    @MareTigeress2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Forgive me if I’m repeating this, I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet from my brief look at the comments…
    From the end clip; the excessive narration by the feminine voice is actually an accommodation for the blind/difficulty seeing 😅 (Disney parks really get into accessibility) They have a very similar narration if you turn that feature on when streaming the movie, but it’s with a more monotone voice.

  • @Ace-ace-baby
    @Ace-ace-baby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    One of my favorite parts of the finding Nemo movie is when the main shark smells some blood and his friends scream “intervention” it was so funny to me😂

  • @isabellp.5730
    @isabellp.5730 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    this is such a deeply niche topic and i adore this

  • @Pbarz554
    @Pbarz554 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    When my school got the rights to this show last year instead of using puppets we kinda did what SpongeBob the musical did where we were the characters and it actually came out really well!

  • @morgan1076
    @morgan1076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    Starship by starkid is one of my favorite musicals with puppets. They do a pretty good job of translating emotion through the actors and the puppets

    • @ryebread5658
      @ryebread5658 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      PLEASE tell me I’m not crazy in thinking that Dylan Saunders plays Crush here

    • @morgan1076
      @morgan1076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ryebread5658 oh my god he sounds exactly like him
      on a second watch I don't think it's him but he sounds a lot like him (especially during flow). I've seen it live a couple times but not since I fully got into Starkid

    • @BroadwayBrittany
      @BroadwayBrittany 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ryebread5658I was rushing to the comments to see if I was the only one thinking the exact same thing XD

    • @Quackervoltz
      @Quackervoltz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      STARSHIP MENTION

  • @thepigman9272
    @thepigman9272 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I really agree with him that LED screens ruin the set. Not long ago I watched an amazing production of "The sounds of music" and the set was mostly a screen and it just felt cheap for the high tickets price.

  • @butteredpopcornjellybean7583
    @butteredpopcornjellybean7583 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +258

    Finding Nemo? More like... Finding EMO! This video has already made me cry, piss, and shit my pants. Well done Max, you've done it again!

  • @LyricNear
    @LyricNear 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    man I LOVE weird puppets like this. I remember almost seeing it at the parks but we decided to wait around to catch the Kevin puppet instead (also made by the same designer! and she's a beautiful bird holy shit)
    if you're looking for weird musicals to cover, I think you're really enjoy the strangeness that was the short-lived Broadway run of the Raggedy Ann musical. it got a lot of attention early on from parents for being too dark and traumatizing their kids, so you know it's gonna be fun.

    • @stupidbandkid741
      @stupidbandkid741 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hope he does a video about a StarKid show, though that may be too mainstream

  • @jackburroughs2584
    @jackburroughs2584 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I know one of the old actors for crush (not the one in the video you watched) and he was able to take us backstage after the show to meet all the cast and see the puppets up close. It was a really cool experience and I'm still in contact with him now and he's an amazing singer and actor.

    • @Measuresderepo
      @Measuresderepo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait… what’s his name?
      Cause if it Dylan Saunders…

  • @AuraNova-AshleyH
    @AuraNova-AshleyH 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Them changing the original version of this show will forever be my villain arc

  • @adrimartinez4714
    @adrimartinez4714 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I first saw the Finding Nemo musical in the park the year it came out because I thought it was such a strange idea that I needed to watch it. And because it was such a higher quality than most other musicals in the parks with completely original music and weird little puppets, I ended up falling love with it. Anytime I’d go to Disney with May family, seeing the show was on my must do list.
    And then I saw it this past year. They absolutely destroyed my strange little play to cut costs and the cast. It kind of feels like they’re dragging around the corpse of the old musical like it’s weekend at Bernie’s but there’s a lot more flashing LED screens that are meant to distract you from the murder they committed.

  • @woodlice
    @woodlice 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    It’s always a good day when Max uploads

  • @averyeml
    @averyeml 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Once you’re deep enough in the whole Disney Parks fandom you know people who have capital O Opinions on this musical so I went in pretty much expecting this video to go one certain way.
    These shows that stand out (or at least are decent enough and attached to one of the more timeless movies) enough to camp out in a theater for as long as Nemo did build a lot of following. When COVID hit and the live actor collection of cast members were dropped from furlough and the show came back abridged, I knew a lot of people really mourning the loss. The Dory actress and Crush actor (they both had their roles for a majority of the run) in particular were crushing blows. We were very worried in my Discord groups about what else wouldn’t come back.
    (Edit to say: I didn’t creep to know who the actors were, when the show got canned the actors at the end, who again were often actors for most/all of its run, made Instagram posts saying goodbye and having a hashtag together and all sorts of things. It’s very easily Google-able)

  • @ArtemisLeo2662
    @ArtemisLeo2662 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ok I think the meme isn’t because of the kid but it’s more the “where’s my dad I’m all alone” is set in front of things like “me trying to call the dr to make an appointment”

  • @judydo_om
    @judydo_om 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    great video dude! really glad I stumbled on your channel. One of my professors, Skip Mercier, actually did the set design for this show. He passed a few years ago, but how he spoke about his process for this show really stuck with me. He knew it was a fun show for kids, but in one of his initial sketches he dug into the grief that Marlin experiences in the prologue. Apparently that sketch really struck the director and ended up framed in his office.
    He was a great guy that cared a lot about his students, and I think it says a lot about him that he talked more about his time on this show for a theme park than he did for shows he did with like Julie Taymor.

  • @ernie39
    @ernie39 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I love the setpieces so much like the coral?? gorgeous!! I think making the fish more like muppets would just be *chefs kiss*

  • @jonahbroberg7346
    @jonahbroberg7346 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As someone who watched the movie about 50 times as a child and had every line permanently ingrained into my brain, it hurt when they said lines that were *almost* the same as the movie but not lol…

  • @alicechristopher514
    @alicechristopher514 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I was in this musical! We didn't have the budget or skill for puppets. I watched the three iterations of the "Where's My Dad" song (Not My Dad, That's My Dad, and Where's My Dad(which was extra weird, since I was playing the dad) every day for a week. Everyone in the cast kind of bonded over the fact that we were forced into being in a fish musical (we auditioned without knowing what it was) I can never see fish the same.

  • @toxicbambi6208
    @toxicbambi6208 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Finding Nemo meant a lot to me as a kid who had a fucked up tiny arm from a stroke. I kinda forgot about it though I should watch it again.

  • @TheConsummateArtist
    @TheConsummateArtist 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Of COURSE I just saw a local production of Finding Nemo Jr and enjoyed it so much, I wanted to see what other productions on TH-cam looked like... and somehow I ended up here lol. I have to say I loved the musical the way it was performed in my local theater! No puppets and VERY low budget, which actually made it more relatable and gave the actors more freedom to dance around and fully inhabit the characters. Everyone in the theater was laughing and (I'll admit) I shed a few tears. Marlin being reunited with Nemo was done completely differently than in the theme park version; more realistically, but still rushed.
    That said, I truly wish that they would've created an expanded edition. For example, the whale scene in the movie is one of my favorites, and I truly believe a theatrical take would have been epic - high or low budget.

  • @sophiabusch5615
    @sophiabusch5615 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    wow the bear in the big blue house is such a nastolgic trip back!!!

    • @maxwellgreenee
      @maxwellgreenee  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It’s the greatest show of all time

    • @sagegreeeeeeen
      @sagegreeeeeeen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@maxwellgreenee I second this

  • @LyssyRandom
    @LyssyRandom 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I’m always scared my director will choose this as our next musical since the rights were released-

  • @kaitlynrain899
    @kaitlynrain899 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    This is SO my niche and I love it
    I LOVE the shows at theme parks! I love finding nemo the musical and the beauty and the beast show over in hollywood studios and idk if it’s my nostalgia for the music but that show ALWAYS gives me chills and belle’s performance blows me away every time

  • @luketaylor7262
    @luketaylor7262 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I haven't finished the vid yet so forgive me if you mention this, but it's honestly worth checking out a youth production of this show if there's one in your area. From what I can tell, it's fleshed out a bit more than the parks version (the one I saw ran a little over an hour). The annoying parts of kids shows are really avoided in how cute this one is.
    Also the one I saw had some super fun ways of handling costuming. The main actors were just dressed as their characters but the jellyfish were translucent umbrellas with streamers, squad of silver fish that gives directions was made of shiny silver oven mitts used as hand puppets, stuff like that. Low-budget but weirdly effective.

  • @emmaginative
    @emmaginative 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I would LOVE to see you talk about "Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular" - the Aladdin musical that Disney California Adventure had for a while - just to see and hear your opinion about it. It's one of my fav things Disney has ever done, so much heart and passion into this short simple little musical! (I've never seen it live myself because I live in Ikea land - aka Sweden - but I've seen about every recording I can find of it, I love it.)

  • @bigbrain1415
    @bigbrain1415 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    that day TMBG delayed all their concerts is a day that will live in infamy for the rest of my life

  • @Art_with_atlas
    @Art_with_atlas 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My family knows someone who used to act as crush in this show. They’re in an a cappella group as the higher voice.
    Also, I danced on this stage as Disney’s “Dance the Magic” program with my dance studio

  • @grack1899
    @grack1899 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i was in finding nemo jr this summer and i had to sing "they're eggs on a beach, then COO COO CACHOO"

  • @Last_Person
    @Last_Person 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This show was my childhood. My parents have always been Disney parks kinds of people, and this show in particular always grabbed the whole family with how magical it is. I still haven’t seen the post closure version but even just hearing what was cut left me heartbroken. (I’m technically leaving this video halfway through to sleep so I’m gonna continue with my full thoughts in the morning)

  • @serialcoffeedrinker
    @serialcoffeedrinker 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was in finding nemo jr this year at my highschool, and I thought it was gonna suck, but really it wasn't that bad. we didn't have goofy ass puppets, just fish themed costume-things. still was somewhat cringe-worthy, yes, but i'm so glad that it wasn't like the weird pandemic ones 😭

  • @protomoon
    @protomoon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This muppets enthusiasm makes me incredibly happy. GIVE THE MUPPETS MORE REAL ESTATE IN THE PARKS, DISNEY.

  • @movieforceofficial
    @movieforceofficial 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I love the Finding Nemo musical and I'm so mad that Disney cut and altered it down from its original run

  • @woolybroth
    @woolybroth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I adore how the characters are both the puppets and the actors, like nemos mom putting her real hand over the eggs

  • @rocketman437
    @rocketman437 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    15:23 that legit sounds like the songs you sing with the people on stage at the Hills church

  • @Yakita60
    @Yakita60 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The meme is mostly the internet “evolving” the lyrics of the song to basically joke about “abandoned dad” tropes. (I.e. Me when I have to change a flat tire…). I don’t think anyone is making fun of the kid singing 😊

  • @patmjr22
    @patmjr22 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I grew up going to Disney world bc I had family in Florida (I’m from NY). I’ve seen Finding Nemo the musical multiple times and ngl it was the one show I would sit down and watch bc it was so good. To me shows at a theme park just get in the way of ride time but when you throw an actual musical in the park the theater nerd in me has to appreciate that

  • @sydney4242
    @sydney4242 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love shows at theme parks because they give me a fun way to sit and relax as a break. All the walking in the heat at a theme parks can be exhausting lol

  • @stargirl2477
    @stargirl2477 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This brought me back to when I first saw that show with my aunt about 2 years ago at Animal Kingdom. It just feels a bit off seeing a stage show of a movie you grew up with being trimmed down to 15 or 30 minutes. But the songs were well made, with the Go with the Flow song and Big Blue World being my favorites. ITs nice when things that were not originally musicals being turned into musicals is interesting, and the same could also be said for musicals that add original songs in with the pre-existing songs.

  • @JaredGriffiths2000
    @JaredGriffiths2000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The Impending Doom one actually looks like a pretty cool show. Speaking of musicals set underwater, I recently saw the SpongeBob musical and it was awesome!

  • @pencil_cat_studios
    @pencil_cat_studios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    34:24 I like how you were thinking about animal related Disney movies to make into musicals and forgot Zootopia exists 💀

  • @funnysillyclown
    @funnysillyclown 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This musical was always a highlight during my visits to animal kingdom. Nice to hear someone else talk about it in a way that respects it but also admits it’s silliness lol.

  • @morticiax540
    @morticiax540 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Crush's actor in that bootleg is absolutely SLAYING I'M SHOOK

  • @akirahyrule2157
    @akirahyrule2157 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was in this play about two weeks ago! I played the Vacationer, who wasn’t in the Disney version. I got chased around by the seagulls and had three scenes all to myself. I had one line, and yet I was the audience favorite.
    It was actually a really good show! We didn’t use puppets though. It’s a really good show without the puppets. The puppets are scary. It was SO. FUN. We also had a great director. Somehow the show is so much better when you have little kids playing the roles. And also some teenagers (like myself) doing roles like Crush, Gil, the Vacationer, etc.

    • @akirahyrule2157
      @akirahyrule2157 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And we didn’t end with ‘Go With the Flow.’ We did a reprise of ‘Big Blue World’ that mirrored the beginning but with different lyrics. It actually made sense. The Disney version is honestly worse, in my opinion.

  • @paullindley2
    @paullindley2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    31:31 I'm about to direct Finding Nemo Jr. with a bunch of elementary students. If you want to come, I will comp your ticket 😂

  • @chaseonyourcase
    @chaseonyourcase 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is the perfect crossover of my two favorite things: musical theater… AND STUPID INTERNET CLIPS… mixed with my childhood nostalgia for all of the things you talked about

  • @z1andonlyme557
    @z1andonlyme557 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nah, the music is so good though. Also, my high school is doing it as our children’s musical AND WE ARE PUMPED

  • @jacksonlee161
    @jacksonlee161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    i had the pleasure of being a part of a kickoff showcase of the junior version of this show, and i was so surprised to hear this was a musical! i think a show like nemo could have been a really culturally relevant thing if it were made more as a piece of art than a theme park attraction. that’s what gives me the most hope about the junior version-because of the length of the original show, it mostly keeps the spirit of the original, and the context of smaller theaters doing this show provides a lot of opportunities for innovation (for example: we didn’t use puppets!) there are so many directions to grow with a show like this, and i think it’s really fun to watch that happen:)

  • @SongBird101
    @SongBird101 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My husband and I saw this show in august while at animal kingdom for our honeymoon. It had been many years since I last saw the show, but I knew upon rewatch something was…off. Now I know, everything was just worse, and now I’m really sad 😢

  • @FortressOfFriendship
    @FortressOfFriendship 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this video is so personal to ME i regularly wax poetic about finding nemo the musical, it was my favorite thing in the parks and i saw it every time i was there. and now all my friends have to hear me yell about how the new version sucks 😭😭 the screens and lack of sets/puppets is of course devastating but to ME the greatest loss was the net scene at the end, bc it had the payoff of “you think that you can do these things but….. i know you can” from the dropoff scene in the beginning. that and getting rid of the opening scene with pearls death really just said screw marlin’s character development

  • @supporter6667
    @supporter6667 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When I clicked on this video, for some reason I was thinking that you were about to rant about how bad the original was and how much better the new one is. Thankfully that was not the case lol. Finding Nemo the Musical was outstanding for a Theme Park show. They had Pyrotechnics, Flying, Giant Puppets, Beautiful sets, and so much more. In the new version they got rid of all of that. They cut it down so much it's not worth your 25 Minutes. Before, it was worth those 35 Minutes. In the old version, there was *some* emotional connection to the characters (Not much but at least some). In the new version there's nothing. I hope soon we get something new at the Theater In the Wild though.

  • @p5strikerss
    @p5strikerss 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i watched this in one year and my sister was crying during it 💀

  • @GoatTheBomb
    @GoatTheBomb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loving the Tom Leher at the ending monologue. The ephemeral nature of theatre is critical to it's impact. However, I had not considered it in regards to all art. Perhaps Plato's Meno was dead on in the statement that a statue is nothing without it's creator. Thanks for the passionate analysis!

  • @crhiannonelizabeth4267
    @crhiannonelizabeth4267 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    the cast and set design was fantastic. the puppets needed work and the lyrics were god awful, but like you said, the spectacle of it all was what sold it. im kind of sad that it was ruined like this and i have this weird obsession with knowing every detail about the production

    • @mollycblaeser
      @mollycblaeser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The lyrics?! Are we listening to the same show?!

  • @Antifearn
    @Antifearn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When my family went to Animal Kingdom during our vacation to Disney World when I was 7, I _dragged_ my parents into going to see the Finding Nemo show because it was a big part of my childhood. None of us liked it at all, the moving mouths on the puppets made me uncomfortable, and the only song that stuck with me was the one where the puffer fish sings about poop.

  • @erinsanders4449
    @erinsanders4449 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the best, potentially NSFW puppets to come out of Australia is randy feltface. There's a show called randy writes a novel, its about an hour and a half maybe? A shorter excerpt is randy buys a bookshelf. Its a story of hum buying a bookshop off gumtree (the aussie craigslist) and the shenanigans that ensue when he gets there. You forget he is a puppet after a while. There is a lot more out there, but this is a good introduction. He and his puppeteer heath mcivor is
    what puppets CAN be.

  • @andresmaldonado8935
    @andresmaldonado8935 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would like to see an Encanto show with all the song (+turn it down become omg that’s the best fan song of encanto) and I think it might be possible because they are going to turn the Dinoland USA into an Encanto/Indiana Jones land (maybe based in South America)

  • @alliedog6678
    @alliedog6678 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    have you heard of Starkid Productions? they make some great musicals. Starship is also a puppet musical. their musicals are also free to watch on youtube :)

  • @Inurantchan
    @Inurantchan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Had to stop this video several days ago when you said "a few accounts of accidents" happend in Tarzan Rocks. I saw so many accidents in that show there is ZERO chance the comments of the videos from people who remember it did not mention how often the bladers wiped on those ramps and you really believed it was alleged....In fact the main reason to going to see that show were the stunts: because everyone knew they would wipe. I'm certain I have video evidence of it since my dad use to tape everything in the parks from the years 1992-2002. It was a thing in my family, "Let's go see Tarzan rocks so mom can enjoy the music and the rest of us can enjoy them falling so much they had to start wearing pads". [Yes, they use to not wear pads so the costumes would be visible and yes: I did in fact see some seriously painful looking wipeouts to the point this one guy was covered up with a board that had trees on it since they were really STRUGGLING to get back up. Most of them just got right back up.] By the end of the show's life span, there were barely any people visiting the shows because the bladers had gotten so good/they had probably cut out the more difficult tricks that no one really fell during the last couple of years. So most of the videos online don't really capture what a spectacle, and super impressive when someone did not wipe, the show use to be.
    It also wasn't just about Rent in terms of how the set was designed: the stunts being on blades was said to have been inspired by how big Tony Hawk/skateboarding was at the time as well. It's very much a time capsule of a show and I love it for all of that.

  • @little.prince
    @little.prince 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    19:02 They’ve made it into a meme from a relatability factor, most of them probably don’t know it’s from FN The Musical. There’s so many show tunes that have become trends on TikTok and hardly ever do the people doing those trends even acknowledge where the songs are from.
    Their ignorance is a bliss for us theatre fans, cause if they knew they’d probably never even use those songs just cause “they wouldn’t work without context” or “musicals are so childish” and nonsense like that.

  • @ona3779
    @ona3779 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Okay, the puppets were WAY cooler than I expected, especially that Crush puppet, that was amazing.
    Edit, because I watched further: OOOOOOOH, THE JELLYFIIIIISH!!

  • @untitleduntitled4740
    @untitleduntitled4740 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i'd give anything for this to go on broadway, with a full two act run and more emotional songs!

    • @otter.mayhem
      @otter.mayhem 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And instead of puppets like this, I'd love to see something like avante garde costumes that evoke fins and floaty movements and character makeup like how they did in Lion King, like bright and bold and mimicking the incresible fishy patterns and textures. Like their costumes could be gorgeous if they tried, but it feels like the ly just wanted the puppets to look as much like the animation as possible. Which is better for a 34 min park show where the point is for people to see their favorite characters on stage and cheer lol but if it could ever be on Broadway, it could be magical 😌

  • @IWasHereThird
    @IWasHereThird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was watching this video then went down to comment then saw the views... how does this only have 7.2k views??? It's insanely good.

  • @vaporgayve
    @vaporgayve 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i'm about half a year late but i literally just finished doing mic tech work on a pretty high end version of the jr. version tonight and you answered a lot of the questions i had about this musical, so thank you for that!!
    as i said, the production i just finished was pretty high end (even though it was kinder thru 5th grade kids) so the real spectacle was the costumes, which were fantastic and glittery and definitely brought that wow factor that the musical needs to keep attention. also i feel like a decent amount of the (very understandable) pacing issues you have with the show are helped a lot by expanding it to about an hour, where it's still a bit rushed but definitely allows for more character development. overall, i think this show really works as a jr musical, since a lot of people are just there to see their kids perform and it's pretty accessible for the kids to wrap their heads around as performers, and since i'm a big softie that gives the musical some merit for me.
    (also i love your music taste, the tmbg and ben folds in the bg of this video and the hall & oates and men at work cargo in your hamilton video made me smile :D)

  • @thelovelyladylil
    @thelovelyladylil 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Really well put-together video essay!! Your content keeps improving I love seeing what you have to say on weird musical theater happenings, haha

  • @almanac4150
    @almanac4150 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    34:34 ... so who's going to tell him that the frozen show already exists??😂

  • @Preppie.Hayden
    @Preppie.Hayden 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Help I was in finding Nemo the musical jr.
    I was chum the shark.
    My shark costume was the mommy shark Halloween costume.
    Fish are friends not food.
    Tbh it was really fun to perform, thank god we didn’t use puppets but um Nemo had 2 heads.
    But overall not the best show

  • @Clubbingclown
    @Clubbingclown 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bestie the meme is that the puppet in the TikTok clip looked fucked up

  • @amandamoore7512
    @amandamoore7512 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You’ll have to cage fight Hank Green for that pelican puppet😂

    • @Dr.PicklePh.D.
      @Dr.PicklePh.D. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's after it too? 😂

    • @amandamoore7512
      @amandamoore7512 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Dr.PicklePh.D. Hank Green is on record as a lover of pelicans

    • @nectarina3891
      @nectarina3891 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@amandamoore7512phrasing lmao

  • @cassidyr2287
    @cassidyr2287 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    omg I get so excited when u post!! I love ur videos and you are so funny!! I love theater and commentary. you’re a gem ❤️❤️

  • @lilyhatesgoogle
    @lilyhatesgoogle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ngl if i was at disney world and i wanted a break from the sunny chaos outside, watching a 35 minute musical adaptation of nemo in a dimly-lit, air conditioned room would sound like an absolute treat. i love it

  • @nintendoplushworld4405
    @nintendoplushworld4405 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    If you want another Disney theme park musical that would benefit if it was longer, I suggest Rogers the Musical. The songs are really good, and really could benefited if it was 2 acts

  • @venus4560
    @venus4560 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this show holds so much to me 😭 my theater company did the east coast premiere of finding nemo jr and i saw it there first lmao..it was very good, and was an hour long. then a few months later, i saw it at animal kingdom and i was not highly impressed..this musical is just so cute tho :,)

  • @HiFky
    @HiFky 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My school did a Nemo musical but it was for the elementary

  • @nygirlyankees4ever
    @nygirlyankees4ever 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those penguins who can’t fly were always my favorite! :,( I was sad to see them executed with the “oh no it’s much worse” reboot

  • @Final_Guy
    @Final_Guy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved this video my school is doing the junior version and I immediately looked it up and was super happy to see that you posted a vid about it 😁

  • @sharpeningtheaxe
    @sharpeningtheaxe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I watched this right after waking up and somehow even with just the clips you showed it managed to make me cry lol
    I gotta watch this thing

  • @Clefablestarz
    @Clefablestarz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The jr version, weirdly, is much better. Its 1 hour long, so no awful pacing, One dedicated father isn't weird like that, no new characters with quirky lines that are super out of place. MOST don't use puppets, which allows for more freedom of choreography. The cast (at least the one I'm performing with) is super good, and I absolutely adore the songs. It's so so much better because we can TAKE OUR TIME. There are some weird things, like cutting out Darla and the dentists office as a whole, the Nigel chase being absent entirely, the whole intake pipe thing, and some other stuff that's a little wonk, but if you want a fully fleshed version of the finding nemo musical, go see a jr production. You'll be giving funding to a community theatre or a school instead of Disney, and likely will be getting a better experience rather than a lazy, cut down version of a great movie.

  • @808natee
    @808natee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love finding Nemo,it came out the year I was born and is probably a reason why I love sea creatures LOL and it was the only movie I saw re released in theaters a few years back and this musical is honestly so cute!! I've been wanting to see the Jr version for the longest time which is basically the same original show, but with a few elements for a theatrical setting

  • @gavi3
    @gavi3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is so niche I love it. Now I NEED you to cover “Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage” at Hollywood Studios

  • @user-xy7yx8zv5m
    @user-xy7yx8zv5m 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    incredible video, Max! definitely going into my rotation of comfort videos by you 😊 the love for the puppets was super appreciated!!!! justice for Nigel and justice for the muppets!!! looking forward to whatever comes next

    • @rebelprincess1164
      @rebelprincess1164 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not often one puts a video with the words “we are doomed” in the thumbnail into their comfort videos

    • @user-xy7yx8zv5m
      @user-xy7yx8zv5m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@rebelprincess1164 i'm built different :) back for my comfort watch!

    • @mollycblaeser
      @mollycblaeser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm so mad my partner didn't get to see Nigel last year!

  • @foxshorts
    @foxshorts 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "All puppets should be muppets" Muppets on strings would be muppiets

  • @SnepperStepTV
    @SnepperStepTV 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've seen this show at Animal Kingdom over and over because its a great show with performance layers where you can watch the puppets, OR the performers, OR both and how they interact building the character through puppetry and human acting all at once. I see it every time I go.
    Oh yeah, and I remember the Tarzan musical, though for some reason I remember it being at a theater in Disney's Hollywood Studios over by Tower of Terror. I loved that one too and miss it dearly.
    I'm honestly bummed I missed the Junglebook one, I'm a 90s kid and loved the movie so much I pretended to be the characters even when everyone else was pretending to be mommies and army men. Not only that, but cursed heavy-costumed stage shows are very much a special interest of mine.
    Due to the fact they can't stop me, I'll be going to make a supercut of the Finding Nemo show on video tape by watching it over and over next time I go before they put a Rocket Raccoon show or whatever in. (I will scream if its not finally something for Zootopia in Animal Kingdom, though I also would be all-for an Oliver & Company show using fursuits)

  • @NathanSpies
    @NathanSpies 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I loved this musical! I’ve loved it ever since I saw it when I went to Disney in 2013!
    They should’ve never butchered it.

  • @sharpeningtheaxe
    @sharpeningtheaxe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    25:50 This is interesting, I had heard of this being the case for the cast members who play characters in the parks and have meet-and-greets or other direct fan interactions, but I didn’t know it was the case for other performers as well. Do you think that even if the performers themselves are vocal on social media or in interviews about their work/experiences at the parks, and are not working there anymore, that we still shouldn’t discuss their involvement online for their safety?

    • @mollycblaeser
      @mollycblaeser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not true in this case. I follow my favorite Marlin actor & he doesn't hide it at all. You're not gonna find their info in a playbill, but the actors in stage shows are allowed more permissions in terms of sharing.

  • @yemmie
    @yemmie 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    LOVE THE BEN FOLDS FIVE RECORD IN THE BACKGROUND