You win some, you lose some

I've always enjoyed watching the touring productions of various Broadway shows that are hosted in Salt Lake City by Broadway in Utah. However, this year was the first year that I've bought season tickets. One of the advantages of season tickets is that you get good seats to the shows that you really want to see. One of the disadvantages of season tickets is that some times you end up with tickets to shows that you're not that interested in. In the past week, I've had both.

Last weekend, Rosey and I got to see "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" at Capitol Theatre. Prior to buying the tickets, I didn't even realize that that DRS was a Broadway show. I only knew it as a movie with Steve Martin. It was a spectacular show. One of the best that I've seen in a while. It was an all-singing, all-dancing, all-entertaining raucous of a show. Although, it was apparently a little too risque for the delicate sensibilities of some members of our Utah audience... half-way through the show about 15% of seats in the theatre had cleared out :)

Last night, on the other hand, was a much less pleasurable experience. We had tickets to see "One Man Star Wars" at the Rose Wagner theatre in Salt Lake City. It wasn't a show that held a lot of natural appeal to me, but I was encouraged by all of the positive reviews that it had gotten. About 10 seconds into the show I knew that I was in for trouble when the sole actor started voicing the opening score for Star Wars while acting out the plot text floating over the "screen".

Fortunately, the show was only an hour long and only encompassed the original Star Wars trilogy. However, that entire hour I spent feeling like I was on the outside of an inside joke. The audience kept laughing hysterically at, what seemed to me, to be the most inane humor. Maybe I'm just not enough of a die-hard Star Wars fanatic (which, of course, I'm not) but I barely broke into a chuckle once during the entire show.