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Anyways, part of my slightly stretched weekend was spent in some places.

One of these was in the evening, when I went to watch a stage show (free tickets). The producers of which advertised in a really glitzy “Moulin Rouge” style that it aims to mystify your mind. It tried hard to be Disney perfect, and though it ran smoothly for an hour, there are quite a number of shortcomings.

Yes, really mystified I was by (in order of appearance)…

• The incredible seating arrangement that made everything on stage Lego sized.
• Distractingly bright electric blue lighted stage steps.
• Tiny video screens.
• Opening group of ladies dancing out of sync in high heels with only 3 men. Kind of like a mediocre So You Think You Can Dance group performance of the top 12 girls.
• Some  human statue playing around with his own mask. Like a white version of the Blue Man Group or the yellow coverage fellow.
• A dude who had like almost a hundred over mini umbrellas magically appear.
• A supposedly “invisible man” whose act had nothing much. Yes mystified indeed. Walking around in a bulky Hazmat suit spraying powder to make his face (?) visible. Searching for the invisible man as he proudly announced in his voice over? Well, he is the one.
• Some other dance number with the 12 ladies coming in again, only thing half the dozen were dressed like men. I call it the lesbian dance sequence.
• Close up magic by some Italian dude that only benefit those who got the front row seats. After that a random audience member was fooled by the same magician into a helping hands sequence.
• Hand shadow performance that was carried out on a dim screen. But that was one of the better performances, by this guy called Sonny Fontana. Flying the eagle around the auditorium was achieved quite good, although blur.
• Quick change sequence, where a lady very quickly changes clothes in the blink of an eye. Then a few by the man. The is a good one.
• He continued with some other magic sequence with a live violinist, and two ladies flanked both sides who began gyrating their buttocks for all to see. I can’t recall that act because the gyrating buttocks monopolized everything.
• Ended with a cheaped out version of the ABBA Mamma Mia finale.
• The audience was really rude and they started to leave HALFWAY through the show, and THEN BEFORE the curtain call was complete! Probably because of the free tickets.

The audience wasn’t really receptive of it, and neither was I in most part. But oh well, it is a free ticket, so why bother so much.