So, if I'm reading this right, they made you sit in the house with nothing happening for about 90 minutes? That's inexcusable.
--Dave Sikula On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 7:22:13 PM UTC-7 David Bruggeman wrote: > I left the Ed about 6:45 Eastern, and haven't seen the show yet, so I > might have more to say later in the week. > > Most of what Dave describes below reflects my experience, though the > process is much more efficient than in 2017. I arrived at 3:30, and once > my plus one satisfied all the COVID requirements, we were in the Ed within > 20 minutes and right to our seats (ground level, near the back and across > from Joe Saylor in the band, though we still had a fair amount of time > waiting in the theater. > > The staff had music piped in (mostly current hits). I can't remember who > came first, but the floor director and the warm-up guy (Paul Mercurio, who > was probably doing it in 2017) were next. Mercurio was leaning hard on the > cheerleading approach to being a warm-up comic, which can easily rub > someone the wrong way. His interactions with audience members were more > entertaining. > > The band came out and the crowd really responded. They played the song > that used to play over the end titles (chorus lyrics "I feel good, I feel > free, I feel fine just being me.") Stephen came out during the song, did > the Q&A thing, and then the show started around 5:30-5:40. > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e3bb1fd0-4b33-4023-b149-fa602c0c9ca9n%40googlegroups.com.
