Don't Drag Your Husband to This
- August 30, 2009
- Rated 1 of 5 by
orig_az from Phoenix, Arizona
While researching our trip to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, I kept seeing ads for the Medora Musical and pitchfork fondue. Since there is not much else in terms of nightlife in Medora, I convinced my husband that we should check it out. We were both expecting the show to be a bit hokey, reading the description that it was a variety show with a heavy patriotic and Teddy Roosevelt theme. We were both fairly disappointed. The plot, if you can call it that, was barely followed and the songs performed had nothing to do with anything (example: a girl sings "I Hope You Dance" to the main character who has just opened a cafe. Huh???). However, the singers were all pretty decent. The choreography was straight up amusement park quality, meaning unoriginal and unimpressive. There was a short clogging piece that was cool, but that alone could not make up for the rest of the two hours of step-touch/step-touch/turn over and over again. My husband and I aren't particularly religious and were therefore a little weirded out by the random Christian rock number performed in gospel robes. Again, this number had nothing to do with the plot, but we had already realized not to expect that. The featured performers were the Peking Acrobats. This was definitely the best part of the show, which is strange as didn't fit into the rest of the performance at all. The tickets are a little steep for such a mediocre performance so if you want to go and your husband is whining about it, let him stay in the hotel! It'll save you the much louder whining in the car ride home.
Husband's Perspective:
I went into this with extremely low expectations which were not met. As the wife mentioned, we expected a patriotic and corny performance, however, the disjointed nature and religious overtones of the performance made for an especially disappointing evening. I don't know who I fell worse for, the audience or the poor entertainers who are forced to endure a summer of performing what would, on it's best day, be a below average musical.