House of Dancing Water

Awesome! What more to say? Sword fights and acrobats diving and flipping from huge heights.

Did a great job of telling a story with no words at all. Was a classic Chinese “boy fights bad guys with Kung Fu and rescues girl who has amazing magic water powers that she uses to clobber everyone and then boy becomes emperor.” Only problem was that all the acrobats/ swimmers were white... and so obviously couldn't become emperor - so they added two boys who worked together to save the girl (who then revealed that she had the magic power to beat everyone from the get-go of course) and then the Chinese boy becomes emperor and the white boy gets the girl.

And then they threw in a scene of motor bikes doing jumps and flips because who doesn't like motorbikes?!

The stage was pretty amazing - floor becomes pool and people go down and never come back up again. Gotta find the kids a show now on how that works!Read more