I’m a mega fan and I came away disappointed
by John on 5/7/24I’ve been watching on YouTube for years and loved so many of the performances. I showed so many people, watched on repeat and shared with people at work on social groups. I paid a lot of money for my me and my wife to go see them for the first time. I noticed a few things early on ranging from admittedly irrelevant to very disappointing. No Scott Bradlee? Huh? No grand piano. The host has a few jobs like setting the scene, introductions, thanks yous, singing some songs and also some padding of time to allow performers to rest and get ready etc. but the amount of filling he did blew my mind. He went on and on and on and on and on. Did he then start a song? No, he went on and on and on and on. Was something wrong? Is this normal? I don’t know. He was a fantastic performer and very good at getting everyone in the mood but I was shocked at how he could just keep going on and on and on. He wasted so much time. The next thing was key to me but might be irrelevant to 97% of people. The standard of the performances were good but what I always loved about postmodern jukebox was that the performances were elite. But these were just…good. It’s like they just hired some professional performers and did a few rehearsals. Nothing like Hayley Reinhart or Morgan James (for example) Nothing. I quickly came to the conclusion I’d wasted my money and they were just living off the “Scott Brandlee” brand name. If you look at the most popular songs on YouTube absolutely none of them are Zelda medleys. What was that about? I love Nintendo music but that was never what postmodern jukebox was about. Bizarre. I absolutely loved the short tap dancing interludes on YouTube but not whole performances of just tap dancing. Far too much. Overall, just disappointing. Are there still some gigs that match the original magic? I don’t know. I only saw this one.