DC, Do You Feel Excited!?! For this weekend at Verizon Center, you will be amazed and thrilled as the world of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon comes to life right before your eyes! If you want to take your family on a night out, then look no further for this show takes you on a journey you’ll talk about all summer long.
For my readers who are not familiar with this amazing movie, here’s a quick recap. The film is an the adaptation of the 2003 series of children’s novels by Cressida Cowell. A young Viking named Hiccup hopes to takes his place among his clan by becoming a dragon slayer. He captured his first dragon, a rare beast known as a “Night Fury,” and named him Toothless. Soon Hiccup learns that dragons are not the enemy, but misunderstood creatures. He and his dragon Toothless become the best of friends. Hiccup realizes that his friendship with the dragon could change the world of Vikings forever.
If these books or the movie captured your heart, then you are in for a real treat. When you see the stage itself, you suddenly forget that you are in DC since the island of Berk is projected on special screens on the backdrop and on the floor. Combined with the wonderful score, the great acting, and the animatronic dragons, you feel that you are not just watching the show but you are part of the movie!
The spectacular actors, dragons and animation on the backdrop move as one complete unit. It’s like watching a military precision drill team; you have to wonder how they do it so unbelievably well. All your favorite dragons including Nadder, Gronckle, Nightmare & Toothless are incredible when they walk around the arena. Toothless, a beautiful dragon with a 40-foot wingspan, flies across the stage and sparkles your imagination.
The same team that created “Walking With Dinosaurs,” a stage show based on a documentary about the Jurassic giants, worked on this wonderful stage show.
The verdict is Dragon Live Spectacular is SPECTACULAR! It’s great entertainment for the entire family that everyone will love how their favorite tale comes to life. No dragons were harmed while touring DC.
FINAL GRADE: A++
DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular is playing at the Verizon Center until July 22nd! For more information on the tour or to see if its coming to a city near you: check out www.dreamworksdragonslive.com/
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I knew early on that I wanted to take my place among the stars. One day, my mother saw me reading The Washington Post at a very young age. Who would have known that it would be the building blocks of my journey? Since that day, I dedicated my life to learn all that is learnable. I read everything from encyclopedias, to books, to dictionaries, to magazines. I’m also an avid consumer of television, with my favorite genre being game shows. If you’ve seen me on Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Wheel of Fortune, then you know that this interest has served me well!
My unique style of reporting began back in junior high school, when I started to chronicle the events that shaped my life. Whether it was the annual family vacation or the local science fiction convention, I shot numerous pictures and recorded my thoughts so I could truly appreciate the history. During my senior year at Friendly High, I wrote what was to be my first masterpiece, “Advanced Space Academy – A One Week Journey.” I sent the eleven-page article back to the U.S. Space Camp staff. The article was highly praised for being “one of the best written articles in the history of U.S. Space Camp.” From then on, I knew what I wanted to do for rest of my life — to be a reporter.
Since then, I have trained in Broadcast Journalism at Bowie State University (2008) in Bowie, MD earning a B.S. in Communications. I gained experience in news production and editing through field experiences with Bowie Community Media Corporation, Prince George’s Community Television, and Bowie State University Television. I also wrote scripts for a variety of quiz shows for over five years.
As a lifelong movie buff, I now see close to 100 films every year. I took this love of movies to the next step when I became a co-host for Eclipse Magazine TV in the fall of 2005. While at EMTV, I interviewed celebrities, worked red carpets, and attended a wide variety of movie screenings. In January 2009, I took a leap of faith and started my own entertainment news magazine, The Rogers Revue. Shortly afterward, my life-long journey of studying the silver screen and writing about what I learned finally earned me a place in the Washington Area Film Critics Association.
All of this has led me here, giving you the latest entertainment news for the DMV and the entire nation, and I am truly excited for whatever will come next.
