I am so stoked to see this play!!! I love dinosaurs!!!

Take away the Xbox. Replace with manners.

Alison, you're going to be reviewing this, right?

The five year old in me is this close to plopping down the $25, but I'm wondering if the show is anything other then thirty minutes of what I just saw.

I will not lie, I took a date to this show last year. I had 50 bucks and a desire not to spend it in a productive way.

My review: It's pretty neat, once you get over the whole uncanny valley thing. It should be said that you have to really like dinosaurs.

Yeah, we'll be reviewing it. I'll probably make Erik Henriksen do it, though I'm not sure if his childlike enthusiasm for dinosaurs makes him the best or worst person to write about this show.

Do the dinosuars have any Oscar Wilde in their repertoire?

In the second act, King Laius is killed by a T-Rex which really complicates things for Oedipus.

Will the dinosaurs do the Thriller dance? I am 100% positive that the engineers who program these things have done this sort of thing already. They're not just gonna make programs for "authentic" dinosaur movements... way too boring.

@atomic: Did the dinosaurs get you laid?

There's a dinosaur in A Christmas Carol. I have proof: http://twitter.com/FakeScrooge/status/6277…

Erm, I mean, SEE! DINOSAUR! http://img160.yfrog.com/i/thrillertinytim.…

"It should be said that you have to really like dinosaurs."

Yes, it should be said, in fact, it should be law. Dinosaurs are awesome! They are huge! They are toothy! They ate that lawyer or accountant or whatever while he was in the outhouse in Jurassic Park!

Some of them have awesome bony plates along their spines and spiky tails and other have big wrecking ball tails and look like a walking tank crossed with a ninja turtle.

In short, if you don't like dinosaurs, you are totally lame and probably should go starve to death in the forest of lame things.

Please don't actually starve yourself, just accept the awesomeness of dinosaurs.

@Graham: you mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90Cf6ARscc

"Well, take your pick: would you like to go see this, or maybe you'd like to see 'Star Wars' with a live orchestra. Or no -NO!- I got it: what you need is a bunch of video game theme songs as done by an orchestra! Good for us!"

... I saw both of those shows.

& I just procured an extra pair of tickets to this; I'll give them away on Blogtown closer to the show. STAY TUNED UNTIL FEBRUARY.

@Graham The dinos aren't programed. They're basically giant robotic puppets performed live. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNgpmGnbRM

@rich You are partially correct. There is a person driving them, but they don't control the movements, just the placement on stage. There are two other people (voodoo puppeteers) who perform each of the large dinos. One controls all of the large movements - head, neck, body, tail - and the other controls the smaller movements and sounds - eyes and mouth. A team of three altogether performing one dino. :)

There are smaller dinos in the show - raptors for example - that are performed by a person inside them. The suits weigh about 100 lbs. The performer also controls each of the sounds as well as the head, mouth and eye movements from inside the suit.