Beautiful Sounds from the Beetlejuice Tour Performance

Love for the Ghost with the Most and his singing.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts has been a wonderful mainstay in Miami. I interned there as a college student and enjoy watching the various shows that tour. Musicals have always been a delight for me, and Beetlejuice is no different.

Having attended so many shows, this was the first one where I saw people attending a touring musical in costume. I saw plenty of green-haired Beetlejuices, one or two Lydias, and even a Maitland or someone in a green dress. Many were teens who had dressed up for the occasion. My friend Bettina and her brother Adam joined me for the show; I joked with Bettina that if Hamilton came back to Miami, maybe people would cosplay for it. We’d need nineteenth-century soldier costumes and ballgowns.

What Seeing the Stage Show In-Person Uncovers

First, unlike the Broadway theater, Adrienne Arsht doesn’t have trapdoors. That means the Maitlands don’t fall through broken floorboards and break their necks; instead, they shock each other by accident. It’s certainly more gruesome as the actors have to lie on the floor while Beetlejuice explains his plan and tosses away a very useful book. They only get up as he finishes his monologue.