Was the keyboard player who has popped up this week identified? And when are they going to give the keyboard players a real piano and/or a Hammond instead of a Nord Stage?
Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:20 PM M-D November <mdnovem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dave - I'd rather sit in the house for 90 minutes than have to stand on > the street in line (or crammed into the Ed's lobby), as it had been done > pre-COVID. > > On Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 5:37:55 AM UTC-4 Dave Sikula wrote: > >> 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/21147afc-5617-4630-b5f6-8c2a0c11a079n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/21147afc-5617-4630-b5f6-8c2a0c11a079n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJ_uKi_GtX6wA7MyQqiKsYXvPfGAz2ND-6wT0-Bpv14yfd-4%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
