During a busy week of multiple club meetings, 10-page papers and other stressful college responsibilities, do you find yourself putting off homework and reliving your childhood by watching Recess reruns on YouTube? No?
Well, I highly recommend it - if I've learned anything from volunteering with kids, it's that sometimes the best stress-buster is not reaching for the nearest cup of coffee and/or alcoholic beverage, but for the LEGOS. And so, when I stepped into John Paul Jones Arena to see Finding Nemo on Ice and found the auditorium lit by the spinning red lights of whirling, lit-up, Nemo-topped thingamabobs in the hands of hundreds of sticky 6-year-old kids, I knew I had come to the right place.
The show followed the familiar plot and dialogue of the well-loved Disney/Pixar movie, more or less, but the show did not focus so much on the plot as it did on the visual spectacle of beautifully costumed characters gliding gracefully on the ice, looking very much like fish swimming through water. The elaborate sets ranged from a coral reef glowing in psychedelic neon colors to a fish tank filled with life-sized aquarium d
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