The Little Mermaid Jr - Cast 1 - 4 out of 5 stars Pelican Productions TICKETS (to Cast 2):  https://www.trybooking.com/au/event/1596031 The Little Mermaid Jr is a 60-minute, one-act adaptation of the full-length stage musical (which itself expands on the 1989 animated film), specially edited and simplified for performance by schools and youth theatre casts. While core songs from the animated movie remain, several original Broadway numbers are cut or trimmed for time. Nonetheless, Pelican Productions’ staging delivers a high-impact hour full of colour, talent… and wheels. Jen Frith’s costume design is remarkably bright and colourful across the range of land and sea creatures. Notably, the characters living under the sea glide around the stage in Heelys—shoes with wheels in the heel—and it works quite well, allowing the cast to glide in and around the space, then stop in place simply by putting their foot down. Using the same scaffolding structure from their production of Grease...