Thrills and chills at Broadway's Frozen musical
By Elysa Gardner
BBC News, New York
Caissie Levy and Patti Murin play siblings Elsa and Anna
As the musical version of Disney's hit film Frozen opens on Broadway, reporter Elysa Gardner takes a trip to Arendelle with some excited fans.
On a late winter's evening in New York City, fans young and old gathered to be transported to an even chillier place.
Their destination, technically speaking, was Times Square, where Disney's latest stage outing, an adaptation of its 2013 screen musical Frozen - the highest-grossing animated film of all time - was in previews.
But even before the curtain rose inside Broadway's St James Theatre on 17 March, audience members were ready to suspend disbelief and enter the gates of Arendelle, the fictional kingdom where royal sisters Elsa and Anna grow up and apart and are then reunited - with a little help from an ice salesman, his reindeer and an indomitable snowman.
"I want to see what the characters look like in real life," said nine-year-old Margaux Knepper, from suburban Long Island.
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Gabriel and Grace Stevens, aged 12 and nine respectively, had travelled all the way from Destin, Florida with their parents and were especially eager to see how Sven the reindeer would be recreated onstage.
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