April 01, 2008
The rest of the weekend (no hockey)
Saturday night: Radici (new menu!) and then They Might Be Giants at The Music Hall. TMBG puts on a fun live show (2 encores!), and man, do I love the venue: Perfect sized theatre, great view from the balcony, plenty of leg room in the seats (oh yeah -- I don't have to stand the whole time), and when it's all over it takes less than 3 minutes to exit the building and get to the car -- and then home in 20 minutes! Take that Boston!
Sunday afternoon: Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, again, at The Music Hall. It would be cool to play in a group like this: Local and volunteer -- of course there's not that many seats for winds. They did a pretty good job, although they are not quite up to the level of the UNH Orchestra. Sometimes the intonation was off, and they sound what I can only describe as "tentative" at times. But they did a great job on Dvorak's New World Symphony.
Worst part of the concert was, of course, the audience: Arrive late? No problem, walk down the center aisle and take a seat in the 2nd row. Need to get up and fiddle with your video camera? Please, leave your seat and return 4 times in 10 minutes, it's not distracting at all. Oh, and when you get up and disappear for the remainder of the concert, leave your coat behind, with the cell phone in it. And the ringer on. Please don't worry about the "beep" it will make every 90 seconds for the remainder of the concert. Hey at least the beep is (mostly) in the same key as Dvorak!
After the concert: Radici (new menu!)
Posted by David at April 1, 2008 12:38 AM | EditDid they sing any D&D songs?... "Freezing at Pee Wee Hockey?"
I have to disagree about those Music Hall seats... maybe I have longer legs but those things are torture.
Kreblog, you must be mistaken. What is your comparison? Seats at the Hoyt's mega-lo-plex? Have you ever been to the Shubert theatre in Boston?
I'm curious if there were a lot of children there? They are pretty big in Playhouse Disney! Or was it not that kind of show??
It's fun inside so come inside! My A-girl is a huge fan of TMBG. Whenever I'm at the music hall I feel like I'm sitting in the future site of the next big fire disaster. I'm sure I'm paranoid though.
TMBG played two shows that day at the Music Hall. One in the afternoon that was geared towards kids and one at night that was strictly over 14. There were signs everywhere saying that TMBG would not take the stage if it wasn't enforced.
I give them credit for tailoring their shows for a specific audience. Who knows, maybe that was a lesson they already learned the hard way?
It was a great show. The set was a great mix of their older songs (mostly from Flood and Apollo 18) and songs from their latest "adult" album: The Else. Their stage presence and banter was pretty much how I remembered them from the other time I saw them a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
Oh and I forgot: FINGERTIPS!