“Yeah, the gods are real,” as everyone sings in an opening number seemingly written to be screamed in your bedroom after you’ve been grounded, “and they have kids / and those kids have issues! / Issues!” As ever, these gods are really promiscuous. After being attacked by a few monsters, he goes off to a magic training camp, where he meets a bunch of other superpowered demigod kids. ![]() Teen hero Percy - as in Perseus - Jackson never fit in at school, but surprise, surprise, it turns out his missing dad is actually a Greek god (his identity isn’t exactly a spoiler, but let’s just say his mom really loved the sea). The story’s based on the first of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians young-adult novels that transplant Greek mythology into the present. Your degree of enjoyment of The Lightning Thief will probably depend on your feelings about the toilet paper, which is a pretty neat stand-in for the rest of this scrappy, loudly eager-to-please show. I was delighted by the low-tech ingenuity, even if I did also feel like a suburban home those middle-schoolers had decided to vandalize, just in time for Halloween. The young fans at my performance cheered like the ball was being dropped on New Year’s Eve. To that messy trend, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is here to add rolls and rolls of toilet paper, shot over the audience’s head with leaf blowers when its young hero summons streams of water to fight one of his mythical enemies. It’s becoming hard to leave a big musical without having something rain down on you, whether confetti ( Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice), streamers ( Little Shop of Horrors), or fake snow ( Frozen).
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