Excellent!!
by Elle on 6/23/22Liberty Hall - LawrenceA fun show filled with a great story & many laughs, absolutely would see again
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A fun show filled with a great story & many laughs, absolutely would see again
Well-worth the price. I had a ton of fun, and enjoyed the whole experience.
Very fun for everyone even if they haven’t listened to wtnv before! I made my mom go with me with only one episode under her belt and she loved it.
The venue was perfectly sized for the show, and the sound was clear and excellent. (Mal Blum's guitar might have had a little too much high end at some points, but that didn't detract from the performance at all!) An entertaining show all around and very much delivering the classic Welcome to Night Vale experience. HOWEVER, the ticket said the show was to start at 6:30pm, with doors opening at 6:00, but the start time was delayed to 8:00 without notice, which led to some frustration. Luckily my dinner reservation was moved an hour without any trouble, but it did somewhat sour the night up until the show itself began. All that said, I'd gladly go again.
The show was amazing. Mal Blum was great! A little pal and ghostly, but great! Promoter should have noted that doors were at 6:30pm and the show started at 8:30pm. People were waiting in line much earlier thinking the show started at 6:30pm.
So queer, so accepting, so welcoming. It's wonderful to watch performers feel so comfortable with their audience that they can also be themselves. I will tell you NOTHING about the plot of the show itself, as that was the request of the performers. You want to know what is haunting Nightvale this time? Go see the show. Really, go see it.
The show was amazing! Exactly what I need and well worth the trip out to Boston.
Surreal, entertaining, dark and humorous. Exactly what Night Vale should be, with added bonus of seeing the lovely actors emote and radiate their characters in person. Great energy in the whole theater!
I’ve been listening to WTNV since I was about 13 (2013 or 2014?) and I have grown up with this podcast. It means so much to me that I FINALLY was able to see a live show after all of this time, and it truly lived up to — and exceeded — expectations. LOVED IT!!! Everybody was so amazing in stage, and Cecil is a truly excellent actor. AMAZING!
great cast, great story, great music, amazing vibe, all around incredible show
Wonderful show as always - funny, spooky, emotional. Mal Blum was great as the weather. Cecil Baldwin, Symphony Sanders and Kate Jones were perfect. I have been to 4 Night Vale live shows and I have every one!
It was funny, had good music, and the crew put on a good show. Would recommend if you're a fan of the podcast.
Didn't really know what to expect. In the end it was a funny engaging show filled with some memories that are in my soul.
If it had been more than one night I would've gone multiple times. It was funny, emotional, and overall just a wonderful experience.
The venue was super cool, and the show was a lot of fun.
I enjoyed many things about this show including and especially the gay part
Absolutely delightful. Just as in keeping with weirdness as any Nightvale episode, with the added visual element just enhancing the experience.
The Haunting of Night Vale was a pretty fun live experience. It was fun to hear and see Cecil in person and the rest of the cast present were awesome too; love the jokes and humor! The musician had a really nice voice too. I guess I was kind of disappointed the rest of the cast wasn’t there. The tour info didn’t say who specifically was coming but the photo they use to advertise has everyone in it so I kind of assumed they’d be there; at least Dylan Marron because the story was about his and Cecil’s characters. I also didn’t really like the ending much. I literally couldn’t hear how it ended with all the different sound effects and how faint the volume suddenly was (no offense to Disparition, because I was in love with everything else they did that night!) so I’m not even entirely sure what went on. Idk I’m definitely glad I went, total bucket list experience, but I probably won’t go again.
I don’t know if there was an incident at this venue or what, but you go through more security than TSA, complete with having to dump any liquids or gels. My small pocket-sized jar of lip balm had to go. As for the event, I didn’t really care for the musical guest or the opening comedy act. They weren’t bad, but they were out of tone for the meat of the event—the story. I think the WTNV live show format can use an update. I’d rather the story be extended rather than be forced to sit through music and a comedy I didn’t select for myself. As for the story, what was up with the scripts onstage? For a 30-40 minute story with trained professional actors, it might not hurt for the players to at the very least perhaps memorize, and improv/adjust with any changes, their lines.
The Haunting of Night Vale was a lot of great work from the cast, but the writers were asleep at the wheel. Cecil Baldwin was awesome, as always. His castmates, Kate Jones and Symphony Sanders, also did great work in supporting roles. But there was not much to the show. The story was paper thin, bolstered by the usual Welcome to Night Vale tropes (Horoscopes, Community Calendar, Traffic, Children's Fun Fact Science Corner). The musical guest, Kate McKeown (who also did an excellent job), seemed to be on stage more than the cast of the show. I got the feeling that there should have been more cast members and a LOT more story. For me, Welcome to Night Vale live shows are always kind of disappointing. The writers, in their quest to make their weird material "accessible to a larger audience," make everything a lot more bland and "relatable" in the live shows. And everything comes together in a big, sloppy metaphor at the end. Like a bizarre after-school special. The writers did their best to "banal" the heck out of the truly strange world of Welcome to Night Vale in order to not scare off or offend anyone. But in doing so, they disappoint their core fans (like I once was). So I give the cast five stars. Kate McKeown gets four stars. And the writers...no stars.