Usually, when my spouse and I come home from some theatrical production, I am bubbling over with enthusiasm for what we have seen and anxious to share the experience. Not so this evening. We went to a production of "Christmas My Way, a Rat Pack Holiday Bash" which featured six singers, three men and three women, and a key board, bass and drums musical group. I will say the instrumental music was good, and the singers all had decent voices. They could certainly carry a tune far better than I can. But the show just didn't seem to come together for me. There were duets, there were jokes and solos, jumping from Frank Sinatra hits to familiar holiday songs. It wasn't all bad. Their version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" was funny and the final song, sung by all six, "I Did It My Way" was well done. In their defense, we had terrible seats, right up front and off to the side, definitely not the best seats at Arena, and the dinner before the show was a disappointment. The same company catered the meal at the last play and the brisket was amazing. This time around they served us grilled pork loin with golden raisin glaze. It was dry, tough and hard to cut and the glaze was almost nonexistent. My spouse did get three raisins, I got none. The herbed carrots were ripple cut slices, gray in color and tasteless; really not good to look at at all, let alone eat. On the up side, the au gratin potatoes, dinner rolls and Merry Cherry Holiday Fluff were all good so we didn't starve. Even better, we were given free tickets to this show. We will definitely be going back to Arena. Most of their shows are very good, but this one may have proved the old adage, at least for us, "You get what you pay for."
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