Laurie Anderson Tickets

First of all, the ushers at Royce Hall allowed over a 30 minute late seating period--and I'm not talking about seating in the back of the hall. Ushers were escorting people down to the front of the venue with flashlights, no less, all during the first THREE numbers! SO RUDE--that set the tone for the lack of professionalism we saw during the whole performance. Ms. Anderson missed notes, was often flat in her playing, misspoke, and actually READ one portion of her performance off of what looked like a crumpled set of papers stapled together. I had seen Laurie Anderson several years ago, as had my husband, and we considered ourselves BIG FANS, but this performance was PATHETIC. Some good ideas, but completely unformed to any degree, and frankly, just very boring visuals. I doubt we would ever go to another performance by her, yes it was THAT BAD.

The performance started late -- ten minutes or so, maybe more. On top of that breach, the management continued seating people after the performance had begun, which was annoying and distracting. My hunch is that if Yo Yo Ma had been performing one of the Bach cello suites that late comers would not have been admitted. The vocal acoustics were poor. I was unable to understand Ms. Anderson at least 50% of the time. Leaving Royce Hall my wife and I heard five or six groups of people expressing the same complaint. Two women in their 20s asked us if we'd had the same problems understanding the vocal element that they had experienced.

Performance art, cutting edge music, philosophical commentary,mesmerizing storytelling. Support an extraordinary artist while enjoying an incredible 90 minutes.

Sound system at Royce Hall was not up to par for her type of event. Clairty was lost in the big room ....... sound technology in bldg. is not up to 21st century standards......aged amps microphones, etc. Either that or the sound engineer could not capture Anderson's uniqueness.