Interesting show tonight. The Lightning Thief followed the novel fairly well, but there was so much exposition that the fun stuff became mere highlights to make room for a couple of uninteresting power ballads and one funny production number in Hades. You practically had to know the book for some of it to make sense. And a couple of performers, especially the Dionysus character, were poorly mic'd. But the sold-out crowd loved every moment of it. Their reactions were genuine, not the phony hoops and hollers that BK laments so often.
