Vinyl Vaudeville vintage cabaret show on opening night at Performance Works on Granville Island on February 10, 2012. Written by Christina Luo.
This was my first time at Performance Works so I wasn't quite sure what was in store for me.
The staff were dressed in extravagant 1920s style outfits and the theatre was laden with chandeliers and candlelight. Eden, the house magician, showed us a couple of delightful magic tricks before the show began.
Little did we know, we were seated right in the "splash zone" of what was described to us as "death-defying acts". This was simultaneously nervewracking and exciting.
We quickly discovered what they meant by death-defying as a couple performed Cirque-style trapeze stunts nearly right above our dinner table, a woman spun around in an elevated hoop swing and a man rode a unicycle around the stage with an audience member perched atop his shoulders.
The show was extraordinarily varied and very audience-interactive, with acts spanning from acrobatics to burlesque to extreme pogo-sticking straight from California. Much of the comedy required audience participation which always results in a good laugh.
The band, aptly named The Vinyls, tied the entire show together with oldies to dance in our seats to. As the show closed, we danced our way out, thoroughly impressed with all that we had just witnessed.
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This was my first time at Performance Works so I wasn't quite sure what was in store for me.
The staff were dressed in extravagant 1920s style outfits and the theatre was laden with chandeliers and candlelight. Eden, the house magician, showed us a couple of delightful magic tricks before the show began.
Little did we know, we were seated right in the "splash zone" of what was described to us as "death-defying acts". This was simultaneously nervewracking and exciting.
We quickly discovered what they meant by death-defying as a couple performed Cirque-style trapeze stunts nearly right above our dinner table, a woman spun around in an elevated hoop swing and a man rode a unicycle around the stage with an audience member perched atop his shoulders.
The show was extraordinarily varied and very audience-interactive, with acts spanning from acrobatics to burlesque to extreme pogo-sticking straight from California. Much of the comedy required audience participation which always results in a good laugh.
The band, aptly named The Vinyls, tied the entire show together with oldies to dance in our seats to. As the show closed, we danced our way out, thoroughly impressed with all that we had just witnessed.
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