This was the most surreal night
Mar. 29th, 2008 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herzverstreut_buImagine a small production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". Now imagine it in a tiny little church (a real one, with tower and vaults and everything), played to an audience of maybe 50 people, roughly 60% of which were old ladies. (The remaining 40 percent, except for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaoru_is_here and myself, seemed to consist of the church's youth group.) It was one of the most WTF-inducing evenings of my life.
The staging was really good, though. They mostly just played the songs (that alone would have been worth it), interspersed with Hedwig telling the story a bit, but I'm afraid anyone who hadn't seen it before probably had trouble following along. Didn't matter to me, obviously, and the band was really pretty good, although everything else (costumes, set) was very amateurish. Hedwig had a fantastic voice and acted quite well, and I was very enamored by the drummer, who looked like the love child of Hyde (of "That 70s Show") and TAI's Butcher - funny little 'fro and silly tight pants - and was either really stoned or just a very cheerful person, judging from the way he kept grinning and making stupid faces and banging away happily. They handed out sparklers for the finale, and hearing "Midnight Radio" (♥) played live in a sea of sparks was amazing. Although it would have been more amazing if I hadn't been the only one nodding their head and murmuring along (it was so hard not to stand up and rock out, you don't even know). Oh, and they mixed up English and German lyrics, and it didn't suck! I assume they translated it themselves, since no official translation is available (that I'm aware of, at least), and just left the English where they couldn't come up with anything, and it worked strangely well.
Afterwards people called for an encore, and they came back on stage and played - and this is where the real WTF-ery began - first "Jump", then something electronic that I knew, but didn't recognize (presumably something off a soundtrack), then some other metal kind of thing neither Jonas nor I recognized (something along the lines of Black Sabbath and containing bits of grunting, awesomely done by the bassist), then "Easy Like Sunday Morning" (what??), "Enter Sandman" (preceded by "Ok, now I'm going to say something very bad, considering this is a church: Sataaan! \m/" *lmao*) and finally "Highway to Hell", askfhjkf. He asked the audience to sing along for the chorus, and most actually did.
Yes, I heard "Highway to Hell" performed in church, with the elderly ladies of the church choir as backup vocals. I never thought I would one day be able to say this.
(P.S. You have roughly half an hour left to bid at Sweet Charity!)
kaoru_is_here and myself, seemed to consist of the church's youth group.) It was one of the most WTF-inducing evenings of my life.The staging was really good, though. They mostly just played the songs (that alone would have been worth it), interspersed with Hedwig telling the story a bit, but I'm afraid anyone who hadn't seen it before probably had trouble following along. Didn't matter to me, obviously, and the band was really pretty good, although everything else (costumes, set) was very amateurish. Hedwig had a fantastic voice and acted quite well, and I was very enamored by the drummer, who looked like the love child of Hyde (of "That 70s Show") and TAI's Butcher - funny little 'fro and silly tight pants - and was either really stoned or just a very cheerful person, judging from the way he kept grinning and making stupid faces and banging away happily. They handed out sparklers for the finale, and hearing "Midnight Radio" (♥) played live in a sea of sparks was amazing. Although it would have been more amazing if I hadn't been the only one nodding their head and murmuring along (it was so hard not to stand up and rock out, you don't even know). Oh, and they mixed up English and German lyrics, and it didn't suck! I assume they translated it themselves, since no official translation is available (that I'm aware of, at least), and just left the English where they couldn't come up with anything, and it worked strangely well.
Afterwards people called for an encore, and they came back on stage and played - and this is where the real WTF-ery began - first "Jump", then something electronic that I knew, but didn't recognize (presumably something off a soundtrack), then some other metal kind of thing neither Jonas nor I recognized (something along the lines of Black Sabbath and containing bits of grunting, awesomely done by the bassist), then "Easy Like Sunday Morning" (what??), "Enter Sandman" (preceded by "Ok, now I'm going to say something very bad, considering this is a church: Sataaan! \m/" *lmao*) and finally "Highway to Hell", askfhjkf. He asked the audience to sing along for the chorus, and most actually did.
Yes, I heard "Highway to Hell" performed in church, with the elderly ladies of the church choir as backup vocals. I never thought I would one day be able to say this.
(P.S. You have roughly half an hour left to bid at Sweet Charity!)
