Joyce Lander

Review of Old Log Theater

My family and I have been going to the children's ...

My family and I have been going to the children's Christmas shows at the Old Log Theatre for the past 40+ years. We started going as a family when our children were small and now attend the theatre with our grandchildren. This year's performance of Charlie Brown's Christmas was the worst children's Christmas show we have ever attended. Our grandchildren are from Orange County, California and has recently visited Knott's Berry Farm where Charlie Brown and the other characters were dressed in costume, & that was what they expected to see at the Old Log Theatre, not a group of adult actors with only Snoopy dressed in costume. There was not one character from this year's show that was could be remembered by a child. In last year's performance of Todd & Frog, Snail was the most remembered character & our grandchildren still talk about him. My son, who attended this year's performance, remembered Rumpelstiltskin from a performance we must have seen many years ago. If the Old Log Theatre doesn't return to child-friendly productions, we will not be back.