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What's a cool theatre experience you've had?

posted a year ago by sslssg (30354)
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The Edmonton Fringe Festival is starting this week, and I was speaking to another poster about some of the shows I've seen, and am going to see this year. I mentioned a show I saw a few years ago called 'St. Kilda' performed by Jody Christopherson. It was one of the most interesting bit of storytelling I've seen in a long time.

https://jodychristopherson.wixsite.com/jodychristopherson/st-kilda

I feel lucky that I live in a city that embraces independent theatre, the arts in general, and I feel very lucky that I've been able to see so many amazing shows over the 30 years that I have been attending the festival.

I'm just curious about any cool, interesting, weird, or memorable shows you may have seen?

[–] majaplaya (922) a year ago

I really want to see what the "The Sphere" in Las Vegas is all about. They spent over $2 billion on it!

https://youtu.be/GUsY8ocXVuk

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/07/24/msg-sphere-las-vegas-teases-most-advanced-audio-system/70460205007/

[–] parkerbot (6432) a year ago

It's hard to believe that thing is real - it looks freakin' amazeballs.

Wonder how many car accidents it will cause.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

WTF is that thing anyway? A concert venue?

How the hell are they going to make $2 billion dollars back I don't know, there must be money laundering involved somehow. I mean, it's Vegas.

[–] majaplaya (922) a year ago

Concerts and movies so far. The cheapest U2 ticket I see is over $600. The movie prices start at $100/seat, times 20k seats = $2 million per sold-out showing.

My general sense of how the Vegas economy works tells me that it will do very well.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

At those prices, I don't expect that many sold-out shows. Vegas isn't the playground of the rich, most of the people who regularly go to Vegas are regular schmoes with jobs who are there to have a spree and a show.

Those prices are out of the range of the average Vegas visitor, so yeah. I haven't stopped thinking there's money laundering involved.

[–] tcrum (30536) a year ago

Yeah my 1st thought was movie theater. The most interesting theater I've been to is Mcmenamins Kennedy school in Portland. It's an old elementary school they turned into a hotel and a movie theater. The movie theater is actually just a really big room, no movie theatre seats, just a bunch of couches and tables and a big screen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raqbj2ssZLA&pp=ygUhbWNtZW5hbWlucyBrZW5uZWR5IHNjaG9vbCB0aGVhdGVy

[–] sslssg (30354) a year ago

That looks really comfortable.

[–] ClementinaSpur (882) a year ago

It's not really a live performance theater or a movie theater either, but my favorite cool theater experience was at Disneyworld in the mid 1980s at the Circle-Vision 360 degree theater.

My family didn't know what to expect from it, but we quickly saw that we were surrounded by large screens. I can't remember the name of the show, but it was all about the greatness of America.

Then we got to the part that showed the flight deck of an aircraft carrier at its busiest. We were surrounded by it. It was just like we were standing there. Being a Navy guy who had the best years of his life on the decks of aircraft carriers, my dad lost it in a good way. He was so taken by surprise that this was a part of the movie, he couldn't contain his excitement even though there were many, many people in there with us. He started pointing at all the screens trying to point out things with a kid's excitement in his voice. I remember how loud it was, so my dad was practically yelling. The show really immersed you in whatever world being shown with visuals and sounds.

I never saw my dad more excited before or after this moment. A cool memory from a usually very stoic man.

[–] sslssg (30354) a year ago

That sounds really amazing.