Gaslight Theatre

Elias and Sam play in the bouncing carriage outside the Gaslight Theatre.

Tonight we went to a Christmas show at the Gaslight Theatre. This is a local western themed theatre house here in Tucson. It fills up quickly so you have to make your reservations quite a bit in advance. They do singing and dancing shows that are often parodies of classic stories or mainstream movies. We've been to the Buccaneer's of the Caribbean and the Two Amigos before. Tonight we went to "Scrooge, A Christmas Musical -or- Older but Miser!" It was the classic Scrooge story set in the 50's with an Elvis ghost of Christmas present. It was awesome.

Kristin and I had gone together without Elias (before Eva was born) a few times and decided that Elias could probably handle the environment now. Tonight was his first time attending and he did wonderfully. The show was hilarious and Elias was cracking up. He also really got into the story which I thought was great. Often times he'll focus on a particular thing he sees and not so much the entire story so it was good to see him get intellectually involved. Kristin wisely reserved a seat on the balcony in the corner so Elias spent the entire time on a chair peering over the railing with a wide grin.

The Gaslight Theatre is catered by Grandma Tony's pizza, a 50's diner. We ordered pizza, fried zucchini, a pitcher of root beer and popcorn. Then for dessert we enjoyed the seasonal peppermint ice cream milk shakes. My son's dinner consisted of popcorn, soda, ice cream and a few bites of pizza. But what the heck, it's a night out right? :)

The main Scrooge show was succeeded by a Blue Grass Christmas Jamboree. This is my favorite part of the Gaslight Theatre. They usually take one genre of music and lampoon famous songs and people from it, and every music act is interspersed with terrible jokes (my favorite kind):

"Did you hear a feller invented a new way to count cattle?"
"Oh yeah? What is it?"
"It's called a cow-culator"

That's comedy gold right there. :)

It was a wonderful night and given Elias' reaction, I think we might have to make it a Christmas tradition. Maybe I need to look into season tickets...