THE LIGHTNING THIEF: HALF-GODS AND MONSTERS, AT SUMMER CAMP
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So now we know: The Greek gods were not helicopter parents. That's the takeaway, at least, from The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, adapted from the popular young readers' book by Rick Riordan, the first installment in a series that's emerged as a sort of Harry Potter lite. The show follows the adventures of a group of 'half-bloods'-not the offspring of witches and wizards and non-magical 'Muggles,' as in J.K. Rowling's novels, but the spawn of gods or goddesses and mere mortals. And rather than meeting at a school for superior beings, these teens cross path at a summer camp for misfits, where our titular hero is sent after being tossed out of three schools; the last expulsion occurs after Percy attacks a teacher, when she turns into a creature called a Minotaur. (Think Dementor, Potterheads.)
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