Tinseltown Louisville KY

[FordPrefect]

I went ahead and bought tickets for the live show here in Louisville. So far I haven't seen a lot of evidence that people in this area (aside from me) post on this board. Anyone who plans to go to the Tinseltown showing is welcome to make a reply here though. Hope we get a good number of people to show up in spite of the Kentucky State Fair.

[borg48]

I'm totally going to, I will see you there random stranger I've never seen.

[FordPrefect]

I'm totally going to, I will see you there random stranger I've never seen.

Thanks person who's totally not a friend of mine making a post out of pity.

Kelly Clarkson and Peter Frampton are supposed to be in town that day for the State Fair, so I assume that's going to distract some people unfortunately.

[borg48]

I love kelly clarkson we can probably get refunds on our riff tickets, lets go see her.

[FordPrefect]

I love kelly clarkson we can probably get refunds on our riff tickets, lets go see her.

Ha ha. 

[FordPrefect]

A great time was had by all. I managed to directly or indirectly convince seven other people to come to the show with me, although two arrived a bit late. It wasn't a sold out show, but I was happy that the theater was relatively packed. If it had just been the eight of us, I would have been a bit worried.

I should note that this almost felt like a secret showing. Hardly anyone seemed to be working at the theater that night and did not appear to make any effort to advertise the show. I assume everybody there found out about it entirely through the net. The only sign that something might be going on was that the particular area where it was showing was labeled "Fathom Special Event". I guess the fact that it was "special" was supposed to be enough to sell it. Nobody asked to see the tickets I bought earlier for a friend and I, which made me suspect that we might have been able to come into the show free. 

The facts at the beginning were a nice surprise. I had a nice discussion with the guys sitting behind me before and after the show. I liked the host and the Something Awful sketches. Most people (myself included) enjoyed the Jonathan Coulton performance. Unfortunately, a couple guys in front of me either didn't get that he was supposed to be funny at first or just didn't find him funny at all. One guy actually said "Why don't they riff him?" which I didn't appreciate since he wasn't even really whispering it.

We lost the signal a few times during the short and once after the JoCo performance. This was met with vocal disapproval by the audience, but fortunately it was only brief blink outs and they never lost the signal during the main feature. The free digital goodies were very nice too.

I plan on going to the September 2nd showing at the Stonybrook location in Louisville. I hope that tickets sell well for that showing too.