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Friday December 16, 2016
Broadway Christmas Wonderland, The Holiday Show, Birmingham, ALabama
Broadway comes to Gooberville II
The Broadway Christmas Wonderland Broadway Show... was the traveling theater production come to town. Boy were they in for a treat.
The playbill stated - paraphrased- NO photographs, or any type of video / recording device... Prohibited. OK... we'll do this your way. Had I had any responsibility for this production... I wouldn't want any photographic evidence of it either.
Darwin would have been fascinated watching this age of discovery and enlightenment take place in Gooberville, USA. You think ... I don't like theater. WRONG ! I love theater ! I live for Dance! I live for good choreography! I dance for my tribe ! Good choreography is wonderful and was done well in this production.
The performers / dancers/ actors of The Broadway Christmas Wonderland - The Holiday Show did a great job... they served their craft well and due respect is noted for their performance. Any time New York theater productions come to the South our cultural world is expanded and we thank you... our IQ goes up when you come to town, and I apologize up front for what took place from here on.
The producers, directors, author.... I'm sorry you have not won your Mom and Dads approval yet. Keep trying. The performers did what they were directed / paid to do as best as they could in the nightmare of this production. It was a 'perience not to be forgotten anytime soon.
It was BAD !... this was a RT Road Trip to Hell . Dinner Theater is not this bad. It was worse than Bad Dinner Theater; this critics review is NOT favorable, but i'll be gentle.
NONE of the Christmas repertoire was original; it was ALL borrowed from other artists talent. A wandering medley from Wish upon a Christmas Star to every Christmas song ever written.
It was ALL canned music, mostly lip sinc'd, some live performance singers in between the canned repertoire.
Even some NOT Christmas adaptations ie... Rockin' Robbin, Peanuts... Charlie Brown and Snoopy... there was no level of whore that the producers wouldn't plagerize, poach, purloin, sneak, loot, or absolutely steal. I forgot shoplift.
Oh Happy days singer lady had the talent to sing it, and bring it... and they marginalized her with some canned music version that was lacking. If you have the talent; let it run. The owners of "Seattle Slew" didn't make him do pony rides at the fair; they turned him loose to run... and show his talent. The producers and directors and ALL of the management staff should be horse whipped for bringing this amateur production to the stage. The actors, dancers, and singers there were ready and willing to perform. This was a tragedy; wasted talent on the stage by your uninspired amateur direction.
Many Christmas programs have had artists, singers sing the Christmas favorites. Country music artists do wonderful versions of the favorites of the holiday season, many with their own songs. Favorite home town group "Alabama" sang their "Christmas in Dixie"
...one of the best Christmas songs EVER!
I mean guys... ?can you come up with something original? Anything? Just something?
It was like NY theater troop comes to Gooberville, Alabama. They could have shown a Dukes of Hazard movie and the crowd would have been just as happy, while eating / stuffing their pie holes with their hot dogs and popcorn, while consuming their favorite adult beverage.
I'm sure the actors were aghast at the Gooberville patrons starting in the orchestra section.... among them noted Birmingham metro society theater patrons.... Mr and Mrs Bubba "Hoss" Turnipseed, jr, eating their 2 hotdogs apiece... wondering when The Dukes of Hazzard was going to start,... the Culhanes,... that's the Mount Laurel Culhanes sucking their teeth during the dialogue of the 4th song,.... the Parkers of Chelsea and their bucket of popcorn, ... the Traywicks.... wearing a black cap with a white " 3"... ... the Louie Robbins' of Odenville that were burping and farting from eating too much bacon,... the Travis Carters ... the Mountain Brook Carters ...with gratuitous applause during tap dance numbers... Mrs Houston "Jabo" Tankersley enlightened the theater troop with a nascar "whoooo" after each scene/ song, ...at times I thought I was in mega church. .... and this.... is... Broadway Theater in Birmingham.
In all fairness... several years ago watched the Mormon Snagletoothed Choir do their Christmas special and it was equally as bad. NOT one thing from their Mormon religion; ALL borrowed and plagiarized Christmas songs and stories.
After 2 hours of this Christmas hell I just wanted to go outside and take a huge Santa dump down the chimney.
If you've got kids/ grandkids take them. They'll enjoy it and be enthused with Christmas. Otherwise it can be kinda long if you've heard these songs all your life.
This was a wonderful production your kids will enjoy,... I wont forget it anytime soon. Neither will you.
You never drink twice from the same stream.
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