I first saw this show several years ago at the Kennedy Center with a large group of friends. At the time, I really enjoyed show. The music was good, the video presentation was good, even the on-stage bits, while kind of goofy, were still entertaining. Seeing it again, this time outdoors at Wolf Trap, was pretty much the same thing, only outdoors and surrounded by lots of intoxicated people who felt obligated to make their most inane thoughts known to
everyone. The basic show was essentially the same, though I expect the games highlighted were different, the formula was unchanged. Actually, one of the most interesting segments was when they got a kid from the audience to go up on stage and play Guitar Hero. If he could play Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith on hard and clear 200,000 points he would win a laptop. He told them to set it to expert and then proceeded to get a 609 note streak and something like 317,000 points. I basically don't know anything about the game, but that was pretty damned impressive. Especially when you imagine that this kid had the pressure of thousands of people watching him very closely as well as the NSO playing backup to the song. Talk about being a guitar hero! So generally, not a bad evening, but I don't expect to be going again when it comes around in the future... not unless there's a friend who
really wants to go.
3/5
I first saw this show several years ago at the Kennedy Center with a large group of friends. At the time, I really enjoyed show. The music was good, the video presentation was good, even the on-stage bits, while kind of goofy, were still entertaining. Seeing it again, this time outdoors at Wolf Trap, was pretty much the same thing, only outdoors and surrounded by lots of intoxicated people who felt obligated to make their most inane thoughts known to everyone. The basic show was essentially the same, though I expect the games highlighted were different, the formula was unchanged. Actually, one of the most interesting segments was when they got a kid from the audience to go up on stage and play Guitar Hero. If he could play Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith on hard and clear 200,000 points he would win a laptop. He told them to set it to expert and then proceeded to get a 609 note streak and something like 317,000 points. I basically don't know anything about the game, but that was pretty damned impressive. Especially when you imagine that this kid had the pressure of thousands of people watching him very closely as well as the NSO playing backup to the song. Talk about being a guitar hero! So generally, not a bad evening, but I don't expect to be going again when it comes around in the future... not unless there's a friend who really wants to go.