Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 27, 2018

And a rendition of “Kill the Wabbit!”

The fat lady is singing, maybe the over is coming.

There is a live audience, you know. Just wait for the comedy relief parts.

I cannot watch a show with a laugh track! Live audiences laugh when something’s funny. With a laugh track, it’s hahahaha after every line that pretends to be mildly amusing, which is basically every line. Predictable and distracting. Sadly I miss out on a lot of got comedies that way.I

You just have to strike the right note when going to the opera. Otherwise everything seems off-key.

Where are Statler and Waldorf when you need them?

Don’t think I’ve ever seen Shoe in formal. But it ain’t over until the fat bird sings.

Eh, Tomas! The opera she’s a start! Now we really go to work.

Opera is one of three music forms I simply can’t listen to (rap and most smooth jazz being the other two), but I have to admit it was tolerable when I sat through three hours of Don Giovanni because I actually saw what the singing was all about with English subtitles projected above the stage to tell me WHAT the singing was all about. To me, opera is like a prehistoric Broadway but I still can’t listen to it on its own…the singing’s typically too forced and unnatural.

It looks like her buns are mislocated!

I thought this was a commercial for “Cash Now”!