One Hundred Sixty-Third Entry

Work was boring today. I am so over my job, and ready for a change. But that could be the post-vacation depression talking.

Jerry Springer Opera

Lisa and I started our Tube ride with much anticipation for the Opera about to begin. Well, I was bouncing off the walls, Lisa was more composed. We get off at the Covent Garden Tube Station and walk around for a bit. Lisa asks a local merchant where the Cambridge Theatre is. We walk up the street a bit and turn the corner. Just a little further down, in bright neon lights, we see, "JERRY JERRY". I was home.

We get to the Will Call and collect our tickets. We have about half an hour to kill. We walk around and check out the Seven Dials area. Lots of cool looking stores. I found it to be a very indie area.

After about 25 minutes, we get back to the theater and wait for the doors to open.

The main doors open and we walk upstairs. There is a waiting area with a bar and sofas. The doors into the theater seats are still closed, and remain so for about 10 minutes. While we wait, the bar area fills to capacity. It got pretty stuffy in there.

Access to the theater seats opened and off we went to our seats. Decent seats. It would have been nicer to sit a little closer, but from where we were, we could see everything.

Over the speakers they were playing music. Very nice. The theater was probably at about 70% capacity when the lights dimmed and the music started.

From the second the music started to the very last second of the opera, it was a laugh-fest. It was a HILARIOUS show! With songs like "Poop Your Pants" and "Mama Gimme Smack on the Asshole", how could it go wrong?!? I think I enjoyed the Opera a lot more than Lisa did. And I must admit, it was a really rude and crude production and a lot of people would be offended by it.

The first half was Jerry's show. The actor looked and sounded exactly like Jerry Springer! It was freaky. There were guests and fights and Steve and the audience and commercials. It was hilarious. At the end of the first half, Jerry gets shot by a man who gets sexually excited when he wears diapers and poops his pants.

At the beginning of the second half, Jerry is in purgatory. He is transported to Hell by the devil himself. When in Hell, he is informed by the devil that he is going to host one last Jerry Springer Show. The devil is going to be the main guest. And guess what he wants...an apology from Jesus!

Not for the religious and faint of heart.

Nevertheless, Lisa and I enjoyed it. I would definitely see it if it came to the States, but we figured it would never make it to the US.

The End