KidZania is a scaled city replica of real life for children from 4-14 years, designed to empower and inspire, located in West London (W12) and they streamed a version of the pantomime Cinderella during lockdown offering the kids a glimpse of what they are missing. They have now followed up with an even better production of Alice In Wonderland with the same team for this summer holiday again tempting parents and kids in the Southeast to visit the venue.
The production is filmed inside the building using the street scenes as a background for Alice’s home and clever editing, backcloths and stage sets for the Wonderland sequences. It works extremely well giving the show a high-quality look and they inject some digital effects to give it a magical feel that will surely entertain the 4-to-14-year-olds it is aimed out for the forty-minute run time. The music selection will also entertain the watching parents as the MD, Ed Court, packs a lot of well-known songs into the show.
Beccy Lane leads the cast as Alice, looking every inch the part and is very good throughout. Her powerful opening number is Stevie Wonder’s bluesy “Don’t worry about a thing” which sets the tone for the show. The sequences as she slides down the rabbit hole, shrinks from drink, and grows from the cake are all very simply and effectively done. Louis Rayneau as well as directing again, bounds through the story as the White Rabbitt and although the pace temporarily dips in the sequence of the Mouse delivering a lecture, it soon accelerates into a madcap chase around the site meeting the array of bizarre and amusing characters from Lewis Carroll’s famous novel.
