![]() ![]() It hits all the notes that made the books so wildly successful and leaves out the parts that would just drag it down. The Lightning Thief knocks it out of the park. If she had clapped any harder, she might’ve broken a finger bone. If she had smiled any more, it would’ve left permanent wrinkles on her face. Reader: I’ve literally never seen her so happy as she was during the two hours of this musical. The real test of this performance was whether she’d be satisfied. So needless to say, she was expecting nothing but the best. I heard her do it in the back seat of the car as we drove home from New York this past weekend. My Percy Jackson-obsessed daughter can recite and sing the entire musical by heart. I’ll admit that I went into this with the bar set pretty high. And OK, they made a musical out of the first book. So, OK, the Percy Jackson books are wildly popular and have sold something like 100 million copies worldwide. Also on tour from the original cast are James Hayden Rodriguez (Luke, Ares, others) and Sarah Beth Pfeifer (Clarisse, Mrs. The recording is also streaming on Spotify here.Ĭhris McCarrell and Kristin Stokes reprise their roles as Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase, respectively. The show originally premiered Off Broadway in 2017 and is currently on a national tour featuring most of the original cast (so if you’re a fan of the original cast recording, you’ll hear a lot of familiar voices). (Hey, if Spongebob Squarepants is fair game for Broadway, Percy Jackson has more than enough cred.) ![]() ![]() They made a musical out of The Lightning Thief. In all honesty, they’re not that great and left a lot of fans feeling really let down.īut The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is here to change all that. The first two books were also made into films ( The Lightning Thief and Sea of Monsters), for better or worse. You don’t need to be a “young reader” to appreciate them. If you haven’t picked one up, you might just want to do that, regardless of how old you are. There’s something special about these books. Seriously, they can’t get enough mythology and routinely come home from school with books about Ancient Greece, mythology, and related legends. My own kids (7 and 9) recently discovered the books and absolutely devoured them. And in the process, he ignited an obsession for ancient Greek mythology among young readers everywhere. Riordan went on to write numerous supplementary books, sequel series, related titles, and graphic novelizations around Camp Half-Blood and its cast of gods and demigods. The series of five books, which begins with The Lightning Thief, basically spawned its own genre. He’s only the main character in a blockbuster series of books by Rick Riordan that’s pretty much second only to Harry Potter in the YA fantasy sphere. It’s kind of hard to imagine you haven’t. ![]()
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