My husband and I went to see Ira Glass at his show in Houston on Sept. 20: 3 Acts, 2 Dancers, 1 Radio Show Host. We got to meet Mr. Glass before the show, which was great. He was very friendly and acted interested in everyone in the room. Terrific. We took a picture with him and we were told it would be emailed to us, but we still haven't received it. Sad, but not part of the show, I guess. Mr. Glass's role in the show was great; exactly what you'd expect from such a fabulous radio host. The stories were maybe a little on the boring side, but that might have been because I was expecting too much. But the dancers were AWFUL!! The "interpretive dance" or whatever they were doing was soooooo stupid. Their outfits were ugly, the dancing was lousy (one repeated move was for them to do a squat and roll their arms around like they were playing pat-a-cake; another time they set up a dinner table, complete with plates and cups, held each other and danced slowly in a circle for 10 minutes), and they also made ugly faces a lot, which sounds stupid when I write it, but to watch 2 women pretend to be men arguing with someone off-stage was really unattractive. I kept thinking the whole time they were on stage, "I could do that," and I am not a dancer by any means. The choreography was just awful and uninspired. Whichever one of them choreographed the dancing must have been trained at the strip-mall dance center down the road. I couldn't believe it when the audience clapped after every dance and then gave the show a standing ovation. Overall, Mr. Glass did a fine job (nothing spectacular, just fine) and the dancing SUCKED. Save your money, listen to TAL on your radio, and spend your time going to a REAL dance show, like a ballet.
