An American Tail is a pleasant diversion with a couple of big shortcomings. For one thing, Fievel’s adventures don’t have much of a point or, rather, they have too many points.

“An American Tail the Musical” will premiere at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis on April 25 and run through June 18.

“An American Tail,” which also opens today, is the first animated movie presented by Steven Spielberg, who’s been called the Disney of the ’80s, especially for “E.T.” and “Close ...

My child self is like, "Oh my God, I get to work on American Tail." And then also the movie, when I watched it again, it was sort of clear to me why CTC wanted to do it now.

A version of this article appears in print on May 22, 2023, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘An American Tail’ Takes the Stage.

Itamar Moses was 10 years old when he watched “An American Tail” at his Jewish day school in California. He was struck by the 1986 film, an animated musical about a family of Russian-Jewish ...