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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have I ever been to a dinner theater?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
No, When would I have ever gone to a dinner theater?
Well you never did in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No, I've never been to a dinner theater.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
The closest thing for us would have been medieval times.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That's not dinner theater the Did you ever go to
Tony and Tina's.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (00:23):
The only reason I went, though was because of Christine Nagy,
because she was playing Tony or Tina rather sorry she
was playing Tina.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was a horrible show. Is that's very immersive? Because
aren't you treated like your guests at the wedding?
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Yeah, like you're a part of the show. You got
to get up and walk.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
To the reception. Is this the really stupidest thing ever.
It's a little different than traditional dinner theater.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
So then like it's when the wedding's over, you got
to get up and walk with Cubby and it's scary
and Greg t to go over to the reception and
he eat Italian meatballs soup.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right, So that's not dinner theater.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
That's doing a coworker of faith and it's horrible, but.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It is not in the I would say in the
most basic.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
No, because you're part of the show at dinner theater,
like when we went to and I'll use Diane's example,
even though you say that doesn't count times right, Remember
my buddy, I've been to Medieval Times here and in
New York. Remember my buddy Kevin's car got stolen from
the parking lot at Medieval Times.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's embarrassing. You have to tell the cops because the
first thing they do is like, why are you even here?
Wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Well? Remember though Scott Scott loved the chicken no silverware.
Scott didn't care. He picked that up and made it
with his hand as most people do. Eat a chicken breast.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And their logo I just checked it does say underneath
the Medieval Times dinner and tournament, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My show.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
So what is what is dinner theater? Well, let me
back up a step. Does dinner theater do well?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Is there money not for the actors? Well, let's define
it is dinner theater where like you're watching like a
real life play. Yeah, while you're eating dinner? Like is
it pretty simple to figure out?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I too have never been what I know.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I know that is shocking, but I do believe that
with purchase of a ticket comes the meal.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Right, But is it you eat and then you watch
a show or is it while the show is going on? Like?
Is somebody up on stage? I have no idea what
shows they do, but is somebody up on stage doing
br yes?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And I'm eating a Brussels sprout.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh, I don't know if you're eating during the entire performance,
that would be a distraction, the.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Christian.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Will you see if anybody has ever gone to a
dinner theater?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Please, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Hold on eight six six to Elliott eight six six
two three five five four six eight anyone who has
ever been ever to a dinner theater?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I am growing up around here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I used to hear about it all the time, but
I never went because, as you can imagine me, No, no, no, my.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Dad not a big dinner theater. Guy.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You used to hear spots for the Lazy Susan as
a kid. You heard him for years. It's closed now
it's in Woodbridge. But it was the Lazy Susan Dinner Theater.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So the dinner theater?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh so did they just put all the food on
the big Lazy Susan and they would spin around. And
I don't know, what's favorite table at Peking Gourmet when
you have enough to get a Lazy Susan and they
just put the egg rolls down and you spin it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I don't like.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That's like a wheel of fortune cookie you never went.
Don't know if it was theater in the round, if
that's why it was called the Lazy Susan or what,
but it was it was.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh, so you think the stage spun around?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And I'm seeing mixed answers here. Some say, yes, you
dined during the performance. Others say, make sure you arrive
early to have ample time to enjoy your meal before
the show begins.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Wouldn't you think that?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like you're hearing like clanging of plates and cups, like
that's so distracting for the actors?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Can I give you? Can I give you a counter
to that?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
For years you've seen stand up comedy there's waiters walking
around bringing drinks, bringing food like that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's one person talking. It's not be our guest, be
our guest. It's not that or is it a circuit though?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Where these traveling shows, these troops are only doing dinner
theaters style setups, so they're very used to it.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Is that worse than being like in the traveling show
of like a Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'll never put down the arts. So yes, here can
I tell you why I ask? There was just a.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Story that came out of the ten best dinner theaters
in America America and not just the forty eight contiguous America.
Three are in our area. Of the ten best, wow,
three of them. I'm good for the scene Number one,
(05:35):
the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Number seven.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Wait that did you know anything about it? They don't
tell you anything?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh yeah, I mean I can tell you what.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Hagar'stown, Maryland, has been the home of the Washington County
Playhouse Dinner Theater, a place that locals and visitors returned
to again and again. It's roster of renowned musicals like
the Sound of Music, foot Loose, Oh, Footloose, and many
other Broadway staples, as well as mysteries, holiday specials, and
kid shows, give audiences a wide variety of live productions
(06:08):
to choose from.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Dinner at this theater is buffet style.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes, well that can't be during the show.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Everybody cutting, everybody cut, going for more mac and cheese.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Wait, I think I'm confused. Does the audience sing with
the crowd like the show? No?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
No, Now there might be some again immersive ones where
that is advertised and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I'm not getting up because i just ran out of
brisket and I'm not getting up and going to get that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So I'm looking at it in my hand. I'd be
like footloose loose.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm looking at the Sound of Music menu for Washington
County Playoffs and it's the buffet had green beans, candy, carrots, parmesan,
new potatoes.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'll tell you how we solve a problem like Maria mores.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Lemon pep, whitefish and bait baitam that sounds awesome. Now
let me check the FAQSF.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You no, lemon pepper chicken?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Does it have anything about consumption?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I'm eating a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
There they are, and give yourself time to enjoy the
meal before the show begins.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Playhouse, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You better snuff, asterno, because if not, I'm going Number
seven Riverside Center for the Performing Night Arts. Rather excuse
me in Fredericksburg, offering musicals, comedies, and drama. Since nineteen
ninety eight, the Riverside Center Dinner Theater has grown into
a larger entity that also includes a conference center.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who Cares m.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Diverse shows like Jesus Christ Superstar and To Kill a
Mockingbird are paired with tasty meals that often take on
a themed element of the current production.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
To Kill a Mockingbirds starts in a week. Oh and
they have the sound of music this summer.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh really? Oh how about that?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
These run for a long stretch. So To Kill a Mockingbird?
Where did that graphic go? That runs from May seventh
to June twenty second, so two months?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You know that?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Sometimes you know, Tony and Tina's wedding's been going for
about one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But I understand. And obviously on Broadway Christine started when
she was sixty, shows hope for years long runs. But
when sometimes when Broadway tours nationally, they don't stay for
more than a week. Sometimes it's just a weekend. Yeah,
I know, but that's that's a tour. This isn't a tour.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
This is the theater and the sound of music.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Like rent when it comes to Riverside Center is August
through October.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh damn.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, that's a popular one though.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But I just saw it in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Yeah, but that's the kind of the beauty, is it?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What is the Christmas show that everybody goes.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
To the Nutcracker?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Nutcracker where there's like one hundred different versions.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Wouldn't it be kind of fun to see what the
difference is on the sound of music between Hagar'stown and Fredericksburg.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
But I also want to have my fun, I mean,
like punching your ds. I wondered if there was a
circuit listen to this. Oh, so you think it's the
same show.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't know, Neil Rights.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I have a subscription to the Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, I have a message for Neil. Get a friend.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Stop it.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We eat dinner and dessert before the show, at intermission intermission.
At intermission, we leave the act the actors, who are
also the weight staff no serve drinks and take care
of the checks.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Oh, Maria, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Could you ask one of the von Trapps to get
me another chard?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
And then Okay, So eight is the Washington County Playhouse
Dinner Theater in Hagerstown. Number seven is the Riverside Center
for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg and number two in
the USA.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We've all been by it a million times.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
As a matter of fact, our old production director what
was his name, the Philly the Zach fat Zach.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Remember he was.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Sitting on a curb right outside Toby's Dinner thea Toby's.
That is the second best dinner theater in the entire
United States.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Music man's playing there right now.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Don't know anything about that show.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Zue seventy six trombones.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Seventy six trombones led the big parade.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Fat Zach sitting outside on his ass.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Daniellis's her in laws go twice a year at Toby's.
They love it.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Since nineteen seventy nine, the award winning Toby's Dinner Theater
has brought joy to Columbia, Maryland Broadway musicals like nine
to five and Annie, as well as their own originals
Ooh and yet Again but face Style.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, you're wondering if they do well well. There's a
parking alert on their website because construction for the brand
new Toby's Dinner Theater has begun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh really? Wait? So what are they doing with the
old one? Do I need to buy a seat?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Like when they tore down Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
For some people? God, Welp's coming in the December.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
What is that carpet like in their.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Block of ages in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh with what's his face?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
No, we don't need to be suggesting. Yes, I like Constantine,
isn't it that we know of?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah? We got three in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That's really impressive. Uh, hi Elliott the morning I did
the wait stuff everywhere?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Do you think when like when they did nine to
five and they talk about stumble out the kitchen, they
all really do come out of the kitchen Like that's
kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You build like the theater into into the show. Yes, ma'am.
Hi who is this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
This is Kim?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes Kim. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well? I used to work at Swiss Creek mel Playhouse
down in clint Heights off for Route one.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is that a dinner theater?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Sorry, I only know that. I only know the top ten?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Did see an actress too?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Were you an actress too?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No? Goodness, No, I did set design, but I also
did the kitchen stuff. I worked as a meat cutter.
Apparently that paid like ten dollars more so, Wait, but
that was back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So wait, so what is set design like? Oh, you
know what it should go like?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
We should have the protein, then the starch, then the vegetables.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Basically, they said the people, then the people went upstairs,
and the weight staff cleaned up after while everyone was
up in the dinner theater, and then the weight staff
would go afterwards and have a nice little meal and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hey, is it a circuit? Can you answer Tyler's question?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Is the sound of music in Hagerstown the same one
that'll be in Fredericksburg?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I have no clue.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Are the actors? Do they seem happy with what they're doing?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yea? Why are the actors a holes?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
When you're working on set designs, sometimes they smoke around
the flammable ingredients like paints and Saint dinners and everything,
and You're like, can you please not do that over
here while I'm trying to fireproof the tree.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Did you have a favorite show that they would do?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They did one called Forever Plaid, and it was actually
pretty good. Out of all the ones, and they did
Phantom of the Opera was like nah, but uh they
also had a I can't remember. It was some passy
client thing honky Tonk something or whatever, and that wasn't
too bad. And but yeah, Forever Plaid was a great Yeah,
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they brought that one back because it was recycled.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you. You know,
what's to me seems like a like a dinner theater show.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Shucked.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, that play is to the Broadway, so does Annie,
and they're doing that in dinner theater. Okay, I mean
that's a fair point. Oh altyto checking in.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I would die before I would know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Did you start there?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I'll never speak badly of the arts, but I would
also never do this.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
No, nope, he writes, I've acted at Swift Creek Mill Theater.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Oh look, do you know how excited I would be
if I went to Dinner Theater and I had just
finished my lemon Chicken and al Toydo, who playing the
part of.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Stephen van Trapp, had to come over or leasel. I
don't know their names.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah, no, no, that's a that's a good part. This
is just some kid had to come over and.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Clear my plate.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh, hold on, al toyto let me finish that green bean.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Playing the part of Friedrich the Nazis tonight?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, al toydo, I'm sorry? Is it a hard knock life?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Do we need to make this an outing a twenty
twenty five evening with the star Toby's? Oh, i'd like
them to bid for us?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh? Oh, well, hey, who got a dollar? Who got
a dollar? Who got a dollar fifty? Who got a
dollar fifty? No? Maybe, pitch.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I want people from either Washington County Playhouse, Riverside Center
for the Performing Yards, or Toby's. Now are we counting
others that call him? We're hearing from people who aren't
on this top TI?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I mean, do we want to go to one of
the ten best or do you just want some garbage
dump that we're gonna go to?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Are they would? I be shocked at how nice they
are inside?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You didn't mean you'd probably enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You get to get the food or the show.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You get a good meal and you get a show.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And do we believe it's all eat? Then?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Watch oh and checks that intermission?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Because like would it be would it be rude? In
between dinner and the show starting. If I turned my
ringer all the way up and it was like, oh crap,
that's an emergency.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So are we gonna do Elliott in the morning night
for dinner theater?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And you're asking a lot, dude, do you well, No,
I'm not asking to do it. I was wondering if
it's an interest or of interest.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I do want to go see how the I do
want to go smoke around all the A hole actors.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When you click on I know you have. We haven't
done a date night in a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You have a list that ranked them on god knows
what criteria, right, But in pulling up the different box
office and schedules, I've noticed some dinner theaters have very
recognizable shows.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Others do not.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Could that be an indication of the quality because it
costs more to put on certain shows that obviously you
got it.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
You got to see a show that people know. You
think I'm going to go see an original at a
dinner theater.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, some their entire twenty twenty five lineup is you've
never heard of.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh, well, enjoy your going out of business season. Not
going to see that?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But what were they doing, like a lot of people
Diane seem to have fond memories of the Lazy Lazy season.
Oh really, what were they shower?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I mean, what were the big shows in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They definitely got everything big like I'll tell you so
they had Chat nine to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Five, Annie woodloose.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah, it's all the Jesus Christ Superstar shucked all the
same things.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So people remember the Lazy Susan.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I'm telling you that the market was saturated with ads for.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
That thing, Laura says, I vaguely remember it was buffet
style before the show, but I also feel like something
else happened at intermission. But that's what that hell, she says.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Is the Lazy Susan. Is that where they would do
like Tuna Christmas?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That wasn't that The Warner Theater.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The Morner Theater did Tuna Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don't remember, Dacy says, used to have season tickets
for the Lazy suasan off of that place.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Big flex Hi, Elliot the morning, Hi, I just meet yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Hi? This is Megan from Frederick spur Carriyu.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I am well, thank you. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I was calling because when my twenties I was in
like a murder mystery dinner theater that was played in.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It was so fun because we had the liberty to
kind of even eat off people's plates when we were
like in character and stuff, and they seem to love it.
But my husband is completely different. And one year for
our anniversary, he was like, he got me tickets for
he and I to go see Gypsy at the Riverside
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And every second that that play was on intermission and everything,
my husband acted like somebody was running in the audience
and cutting off arteries all over again so he could
die and bleed out slowly. He I have never seen
someone he checked the program. I want to say, every
seven seconds like it is it intermission?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
How much more time?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
How long is this play? He was, And then they
started he they started singing songs, and he was like,
I need a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I need to do this is not this is not
for me.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
But I appreciated the effort from it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It was it was great, But yeah, he did. He
is like south Park. His riverside is Riverside Center. Is
it nice?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Like if I do Elliott in the morning, date night
at the dinner theater, is it is it nice?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Is the food good?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
So I'm gonna say that it's it's kind of like
wedding food if you I mean to be completely honest,
You're not going to get like five star gourmet amazing meals.
But but it's okay. You know, obviously you're going to
have old ends that are going to say the the
chicken is too dry or the green beans weren't what
they want. But you're at a dagon dinner theater, like
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you're like, come on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Your standards, come on exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh, I'm sorry, thank you from the archives here, I
don't want to do this if you're gonna mock it
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
If we're no, I'm all in. You know that you
have to be. Now.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
This is an old archived review of the Lazy season.
This literally from nineteen eighty one that I found. They
were excited for the upcoming run of No No Nanette,
and then I know they did like a Christmas Carol,
But this is you don't go to dinner theater for
the food.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
But now again this is a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They probably up their game, I know, but other places
may have up their game.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh why did you used to have to microwave everything.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But if you don't mind eating all you can of
fairly routine buffet, it's a.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Pretty good deal.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I'm it's especially appealing to kids.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I'm not opposed to I'm not a posed to a buffet.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I love a buffet for Jesus Christ, superstar Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
This is cold at side.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
And the menu was Spanic Copada. Oh, I don't like
Spanic Copada. What I don't like Spanic Copa. They had
falaffel balls. I love falaffel balls though, And for the
entres they did chicken kebobs, yes, orange salmon that was
a little overdone, and leak stew goodbye. I thought you
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would appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
That to me doesn't sound It's not rubber chicken.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And also it's just that color mentioned like a murder mystery.
To me, that is different. And again I've never been
to that either, But.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That sounds horrible that way. That's isn't that very interactive? Again?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Yeah, it's Tony and Tina's wedding, except I'd like to
be the victim somebody killed me.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And I imagine in a murder mystery there's less musical.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Numbers, probably, although I do like with that one show
where they where they go around they eat.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Off your plate all five six? Hey, what is honest? Question?
What is what is? What is dress?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
How do you dress for it?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Like I know Tyler is like if you go to
a Broadway show, Tyler wants you dressed up?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
So is this like, are we for Elliot in the
Morning date night? Are the three plus floaters? Are they
gonna have to wear suits?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I don't think you need to wear a suit? Okay,
very good? How about a dress shirt? Yeah? No, but
like no shorts exactly, no shorts, Elliott, I'm asking.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He's talking to himself.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hi, Elliott in the Morning.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I am well, thank you? How are you good?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
So I've been to the Washington County Playhouse. My daughter's
been in their plays and been to their camp. I
know the owners. And I've also had a subscription to Toby's.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh boy, you are all about it? Yeah, you're like
a little dinner theater slot if you will.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Yeah, that is it?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Let me ask you a couple of questions. Is it
all eat and then watch the show?
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, you eat? You watch the show and then an
intermission they can bring you, like different drinks, but you
eat beforehand?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are they? Oh when when you say they bring you drinks,
is there alcohol?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can I get a jack and coke for the show?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Yes, oh yes, oh yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
How about a heavy poor the Tyler.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
There's even mixed drinks for Tyler.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Oh okay, very good. And then what is the what
is the is? It? Is it fun?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
It is?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It is.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
It's a lot of fun and it's the I think
what makes people stay is the community as far as
the actors, because everybody just kind of does everything behind
the scenes and part of the show. And then they
also serve you too.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That sounds I mean, that's nice, that's not But it's buffet.
Who are they? What are they serving? Like up my
plate style?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yes, I need a new plate.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm done.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
So Toby's you serve yourself in a Washingt County playhouse,
they actually serve you. I kind of like that, like
if you walk in line up to the buffet and
they serve you. So it's a little bit different in
each one.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Can I can I ask this also?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
If if if I ever eat and then watch a show,
what time does like how long is the night Jesus.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I saw somebody reference. By the time you pull in,
it's hours.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Well, the show's got to be a couple of hours
at least, and I'm eating. That's it's probably like a
four hour night.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh god, it is.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, wait are you out now?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, it depends what time. What time you can plain,
you can't mock.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
We're establishing all of those rules, and you can't leave
an intermission.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
No, no, But what I'm saying is if you show
up like there's no way I start eating at seven
pm and I don't leave until midnight.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Well, they do have matinees on Sundays, so that's a
possibility too, if you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Think I'm giving up my f and Sunday to go
watch this.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
During the week though too. During the week is the evenings,
but the weekend is where you have the midday.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
But like evenings, like we were gathering at five pm,
we're done eating by five thirty and then I'm in
the car by eight?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Or am I not even eight? Is my ass not
touching my car again until midnight?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, it's probably not until like ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, Sunday night day. It is all right, very good?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yes, Tyler, Yeah, doors at six, show starts at eight.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Eight, two hours.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I don't need two hours two hours to eat.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, they stop the buffet service at seven twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Then let's start the show at seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
So everybody's sitting there looking at each other, waiting till
late o'clock.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh my god, what time does it end? It would
depend on the show.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You know what sounds awesome is the show ending at
ten and then making that short drive from Hagerstown to Arling.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That was Toby's I was reading. I was reading Toby's, Well,
it looks like we're going to Fredericksburg.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And Wes is confirming they do have jack and coke
because when he was eight at the Lazy Susan, the
waiter mixed up his regular Coca cola with his dad's order.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, west combuzz.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Okay, So now let me ask you this, do we
just need to do well? First of all, I don't
know if any of these places want to work with us.
I do love the idea of an Elliott the Morning
Date Night number one, number two. We don't know if
any of these places will work with us. How many
seats are in one of these oh? I don't know,
Like they're not going to give us our own night,
are they?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I don't think so. No, they shouldn't. They shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I don't want to bankrupt what already seems like a
diet business.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
No, they're opening up a new one. Toby's is three
hundred seats.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh that's a lot. Would people go?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Absolutely, we go? Now we've here. Multiple people have said
they have Elliott the morning. Yes, yes, those people. Okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's like, hey, someone called me and told me to tweet. No, no,
all right, so can we look into it?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, we just have to kind of narrow it down
to who we want to contact first, because it does
not seem like any have reached out to us directly
right well this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So also, I want to make sure we go.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
I mean this with no disrespect, but I don't want
to go see some drama like it's got.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
To be on fun You on a musical?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Okay, Like what else am I going to see?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Maybe we'll get
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Grease the Oh you will as soon as since you
get to the buffet.
Have I ever been to a dinner theater?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
No, When would I have ever gone to a dinner theater?
Well you never did in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No, I've never been to a dinner theater.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
The closest thing for us would have been medieval times.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That's not dinner theater the Did you ever go to
Tony and Tina's.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (00:23):
The only reason I went, though was because of Christine Nagy,
because she was playing Tony or Tina rather sorry she
was playing Tina.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was a horrible show. Is that's very immersive? Because
aren't you treated like your guests at the wedding?
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Yeah, like you're a part of the show. You got
to get up and walk.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
To the reception. Is this the really stupidest thing ever.
It's a little different than traditional dinner theater.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
So then like it's when the wedding's over, you got
to get up and walk with Cubby and it's scary
and Greg t to go over to the reception and
he eat Italian meatballs soup.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right, So that's not dinner theater.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
That's doing a coworker of faith and it's horrible, but.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It is not in the I would say in the
most basic.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
No, because you're part of the show at dinner theater,
like when we went to and I'll use Diane's example,
even though you say that doesn't count times right, Remember
my buddy, I've been to Medieval Times here and in
New York. Remember my buddy Kevin's car got stolen from
the parking lot at Medieval Times.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's embarrassing. You have to tell the cops because the
first thing they do is like, why are you even here?
Wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Well? Remember though Scott Scott loved the chicken no silverware.
Scott didn't care. He picked that up and made it
with his hand as most people do. Eat a chicken breast.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And their logo I just checked it does say underneath
the Medieval Times dinner and tournament, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My show.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
So what is what is dinner theater? Well, let me
back up a step. Does dinner theater do well?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Is there money not for the actors? Well, let's define
it is dinner theater where like you're watching like a
real life play. Yeah, while you're eating dinner? Like is
it pretty simple to figure out?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I too have never been what I know.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I know that is shocking, but I do believe that
with purchase of a ticket comes the meal.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Right, But is it you eat and then you watch
a show or is it while the show is going on? Like?
Is somebody up on stage? I have no idea what
shows they do, but is somebody up on stage doing
br yes?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And I'm eating a Brussels sprout.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh, I don't know if you're eating during the entire performance,
that would be a distraction, the.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Christian.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Will you see if anybody has ever gone to a
dinner theater?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Please, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Hold on eight six six to Elliott eight six six
two three five five four six eight anyone who has
ever been ever to a dinner theater?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I am growing up around here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I used to hear about it all the time, but
I never went because, as you can imagine me, No, no, no, my.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Dad not a big dinner theater. Guy.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You used to hear spots for the Lazy Susan as
a kid. You heard him for years. It's closed now
it's in Woodbridge. But it was the Lazy Susan Dinner Theater.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So the dinner theater?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Oh so did they just put all the food on
the big Lazy Susan and they would spin around. And
I don't know, what's favorite table at Peking Gourmet when
you have enough to get a Lazy Susan and they
just put the egg rolls down and you spin it.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I don't like.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That's like a wheel of fortune cookie you never went.
Don't know if it was theater in the round, if
that's why it was called the Lazy Susan or what,
but it was it was.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh, so you think the stage spun around?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And I'm seeing mixed answers here. Some say, yes, you
dined during the performance. Others say, make sure you arrive
early to have ample time to enjoy your meal before
the show begins.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Wouldn't you think that?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like you're hearing like clanging of plates and cups, like
that's so distracting for the actors?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Can I give you? Can I give you a counter
to that?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
For years you've seen stand up comedy there's waiters walking
around bringing drinks, bringing food like that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's one person talking. It's not be our guest, be
our guest. It's not that or is it a circuit though?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Where these traveling shows, these troops are only doing dinner
theaters style setups, so they're very used to it.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Is that worse than being like in the traveling show
of like a Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'll never put down the arts. So yes, here can
I tell you why I ask? There was just a.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Story that came out of the ten best dinner theaters
in America America and not just the forty eight contiguous America.
Three are in our area. Of the ten best, wow,
three of them. I'm good for the scene Number one,
(05:35):
the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Number seven.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Wait that did you know anything about it? They don't
tell you anything?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh yeah, I mean I can tell you what.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Hagar'stown, Maryland, has been the home of the Washington County
Playhouse Dinner Theater, a place that locals and visitors returned
to again and again. It's roster of renowned musicals like
the Sound of Music, foot Loose, Oh, Footloose, and many
other Broadway staples, as well as mysteries, holiday specials, and
kid shows, give audiences a wide variety of live productions
(06:08):
to choose from.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Dinner at this theater is buffet style.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes, well that can't be during the show.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Everybody cutting, everybody cut, going for more mac and cheese.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Wait, I think I'm confused. Does the audience sing with
the crowd like the show? No?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
No, Now there might be some again immersive ones where
that is advertised and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I'm not getting up because i just ran out of
brisket and I'm not getting up and going to get that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So I'm looking at it in my hand. I'd be
like footloose loose.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm looking at the Sound of Music menu for Washington
County Playoffs and it's the buffet had green beans, candy, carrots, parmesan,
new potatoes.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'll tell you how we solve a problem like Maria mores.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Lemon pep, whitefish and bait baitam that sounds awesome. Now
let me check the FAQSF.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You no, lemon pepper chicken?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Does it have anything about consumption?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I'm eating a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
There they are, and give yourself time to enjoy the
meal before the show begins.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Playhouse, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You better snuff, asterno, because if not, I'm going Number
seven Riverside Center for the Performing Night Arts. Rather excuse
me in Fredericksburg, offering musicals, comedies, and drama. Since nineteen
ninety eight, the Riverside Center Dinner Theater has grown into
a larger entity that also includes a conference center.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who Cares m.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Diverse shows like Jesus Christ Superstar and To Kill a
Mockingbird are paired with tasty meals that often take on
a themed element of the current production.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
To Kill a Mockingbirds starts in a week. Oh and
they have the sound of music this summer.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh really? Oh how about that?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
These run for a long stretch. So To Kill a Mockingbird?
Where did that graphic go? That runs from May seventh
to June twenty second, so two months?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You know that?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Sometimes you know, Tony and Tina's wedding's been going for
about one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But I understand. And obviously on Broadway Christine started when
she was sixty, shows hope for years long runs. But
when sometimes when Broadway tours nationally, they don't stay for
more than a week. Sometimes it's just a weekend. Yeah,
I know, but that's that's a tour. This isn't a tour.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
This is the theater and the sound of music.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Like rent when it comes to Riverside Center is August
through October.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh damn.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, that's a popular one though.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
But I just saw it in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Yeah, but that's the kind of the beauty, is it?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What is the Christmas show that everybody goes.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
To the Nutcracker?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Nutcracker where there's like one hundred different versions.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Wouldn't it be kind of fun to see what the
difference is on the sound of music between Hagar'stown and Fredericksburg.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
But I also want to have my fun, I mean,
like punching your ds. I wondered if there was a
circuit listen to this. Oh, so you think it's the
same show.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't know, Neil Rights.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I have a subscription to the Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, I have a message for Neil. Get a friend.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Stop it.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We eat dinner and dessert before the show, at intermission intermission.
At intermission, we leave the act the actors, who are
also the weight staff no serve drinks and take care
of the checks.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Oh, Maria, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Could you ask one of the von Trapps to get
me another chard?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
And then Okay, So eight is the Washington County Playhouse
Dinner Theater in Hagerstown. Number seven is the Riverside Center
for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg and number two in
the USA.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We've all been by it a million times.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
As a matter of fact, our old production director what
was his name, the Philly the Zach fat Zach.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Remember he was.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Sitting on a curb right outside Toby's Dinner thea Toby's.
That is the second best dinner theater in the entire
United States.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Music man's playing there right now.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Don't know anything about that show.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Zue seventy six trombones.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Seventy six trombones led the big parade.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Fat Zach sitting outside on his ass.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Daniellis's her in laws go twice a year at Toby's.
They love it.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Since nineteen seventy nine, the award winning Toby's Dinner Theater
has brought joy to Columbia, Maryland Broadway musicals like nine
to five and Annie, as well as their own originals
Ooh and yet Again but face Style.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, you're wondering if they do well well. There's a
parking alert on their website because construction for the brand
new Toby's Dinner Theater has begun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh really? Wait? So what are they doing with the
old one? Do I need to buy a seat?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Like when they tore down Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
For some people? God, Welp's coming in the December.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
What is that carpet like in their.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Block of ages in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh with what's his face?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
No, we don't need to be suggesting. Yes, I like Constantine,
isn't it that we know of?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah? We got three in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That's really impressive. Uh, hi Elliott the morning I did
the wait stuff everywhere?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Do you think when like when they did nine to
five and they talk about stumble out the kitchen, they
all really do come out of the kitchen Like that's
kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You build like the theater into into the show. Yes, ma'am.
Hi who is this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
This is Kim?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes Kim. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well? I used to work at Swiss Creek mel Playhouse
down in clint Heights off for Route one.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is that a dinner theater?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Sorry, I only know that. I only know the top ten?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Did see an actress too?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Were you an actress too?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No? Goodness, No, I did set design, but I also
did the kitchen stuff. I worked as a meat cutter.
Apparently that paid like ten dollars more so, Wait, but
that was back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So wait, so what is set design like? Oh, you
know what it should go like?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
We should have the protein, then the starch, then the vegetables.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Basically, they said the people, then the people went upstairs,
and the weight staff cleaned up after while everyone was
up in the dinner theater, and then the weight staff
would go afterwards and have a nice little meal and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hey, is it a circuit? Can you answer Tyler's question?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Is the sound of music in Hagerstown the same one
that'll be in Fredericksburg?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I have no clue.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Are the actors? Do they seem happy with what they're doing?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yea? Why are the actors a holes?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
When you're working on set designs, sometimes they smoke around
the flammable ingredients like paints and Saint dinners and everything,
and You're like, can you please not do that over
here while I'm trying to fireproof the tree.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Did you have a favorite show that they would do?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They did one called Forever Plaid, and it was actually
pretty good. Out of all the ones, and they did
Phantom of the Opera was like nah, but uh they
also had a I can't remember. It was some passy
client thing honky Tonk something or whatever, and that wasn't
too bad. And but yeah, Forever Plaid was a great Yeah,
(14:28):
they brought that one back because it was recycled.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you. You know,
what's to me seems like a like a dinner theater show.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Shucked.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, that play is to the Broadway, so does Annie,
and they're doing that in dinner theater. Okay, I mean
that's a fair point. Oh altyto checking in.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I would die before I would know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Did you start there?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I'll never speak badly of the arts, but I would
also never do this.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
No, nope, he writes, I've acted at Swift Creek Mill Theater.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Oh look, do you know how excited I would be
if I went to Dinner Theater and I had just
finished my lemon Chicken and al Toydo, who playing the
part of.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Stephen van Trapp, had to come over or leasel. I
don't know their names.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah, no, no, that's a that's a good part. This
is just some kid had to come over and.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Clear my plate.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh, hold on, al toyto let me finish that green bean.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Playing the part of Friedrich the Nazis tonight?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, al toydo, I'm sorry? Is it a hard knock life?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Do we need to make this an outing a twenty
twenty five evening with the star Toby's? Oh, i'd like
them to bid for us?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh? Oh, well, hey, who got a dollar? Who got
a dollar? Who got a dollar fifty? Who got a
dollar fifty? No? Maybe, pitch.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I want people from either Washington County Playhouse, Riverside Center
for the Performing Yards, or Toby's. Now are we counting
others that call him? We're hearing from people who aren't
on this top TI?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I mean, do we want to go to one of
the ten best or do you just want some garbage
dump that we're gonna go to?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Are they would? I be shocked at how nice they
are inside?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You didn't mean you'd probably enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You get to get the food or the show.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You get a good meal and you get a show.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And do we believe it's all eat? Then?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Watch oh and checks that intermission?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Because like would it be would it be rude? In
between dinner and the show starting. If I turned my
ringer all the way up and it was like, oh crap,
that's an emergency.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So are we gonna do Elliott in the morning night
for dinner theater?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And you're asking a lot, dude, do you well, No,
I'm not asking to do it. I was wondering if
it's an interest or of interest.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I do want to go see how the I do
want to go smoke around all the A hole actors.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When you click on I know you have. We haven't
done a date night in a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You have a list that ranked them on god knows
what criteria, right, But in pulling up the different box
office and schedules, I've noticed some dinner theaters have very
recognizable shows.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Others do not.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Could that be an indication of the quality because it
costs more to put on certain shows that obviously you
got it.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
You got to see a show that people know. You
think I'm going to go see an original at a
dinner theater.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, some their entire twenty twenty five lineup is you've
never heard of.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh, well, enjoy your going out of business season. Not
going to see that?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But what were they doing, like a lot of people
Diane seem to have fond memories of the Lazy Lazy season.
Oh really, what were they shower?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I mean, what were the big shows in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They definitely got everything big like I'll tell you so
they had Chat nine to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Five, Annie woodloose.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah, it's all the Jesus Christ Superstar shucked all the
same things.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So people remember the Lazy Susan.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I'm telling you that the market was saturated with ads for.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
That thing, Laura says, I vaguely remember it was buffet
style before the show, but I also feel like something
else happened at intermission. But that's what that hell, she says.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Is the Lazy Susan. Is that where they would do
like Tuna Christmas?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That wasn't that The Warner Theater.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The Morner Theater did Tuna Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don't remember, Dacy says, used to have season tickets
for the Lazy suasan off of that place.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Big flex Hi, Elliot the morning, Hi, I just meet yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Hi? This is Megan from Frederick spur Carriyu.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I am well, thank you. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I was calling because when my twenties I was in
like a murder mystery dinner theater that was played in.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It was so fun because we had the liberty to
kind of even eat off people's plates when we were
like in character and stuff, and they seem to love it.
But my husband is completely different. And one year for
our anniversary, he was like, he got me tickets for
he and I to go see Gypsy at the Riverside
(19:51):
And every second that that play was on intermission and everything,
my husband acted like somebody was running in the audience
and cutting off arteries all over again so he could
die and bleed out slowly. He I have never seen
someone he checked the program. I want to say, every
seven seconds like it is it intermission?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
How much more time?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
How long is this play? He was, And then they
started he they started singing songs, and he was like,
I need a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I need to do this is not this is not
for me.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
But I appreciated the effort from it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It was it was great, But yeah, he did. He
is like south Park. His riverside is Riverside Center. Is
it nice?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Like if I do Elliott in the morning, date night
at the dinner theater, is it is it nice?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Is the food good?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
So I'm gonna say that it's it's kind of like
wedding food if you I mean to be completely honest,
You're not going to get like five star gourmet amazing meals.
But but it's okay. You know, obviously you're going to
have old ends that are going to say the the
chicken is too dry or the green beans weren't what
they want. But you're at a dagon dinner theater, like
(21:04):
you're like, come on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Your standards, come on exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh, I'm sorry, thank you from the archives here, I
don't want to do this if you're gonna mock it
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
If we're no, I'm all in. You know that you
have to be. Now.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
This is an old archived review of the Lazy season.
This literally from nineteen eighty one that I found. They
were excited for the upcoming run of No No Nanette,
and then I know they did like a Christmas Carol,
But this is you don't go to dinner theater for
the food.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
But now again this is a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They probably up their game, I know, but other places
may have up their game.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh why did you used to have to microwave everything.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But if you don't mind eating all you can of
fairly routine buffet, it's a.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Pretty good deal.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I'm it's especially appealing to kids.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I'm not opposed to I'm not a posed to a buffet.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I love a buffet for Jesus Christ, superstar Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
This is cold at side.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
And the menu was Spanic Copada. Oh, I don't like
Spanic Copada. What I don't like Spanic Copa. They had
falaffel balls. I love falaffel balls though, And for the
entres they did chicken kebobs, yes, orange salmon that was
a little overdone, and leak stew goodbye. I thought you
(22:30):
would appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
That to me doesn't sound It's not rubber chicken.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And also it's just that color mentioned like a murder mystery.
To me, that is different. And again I've never been
to that either, But.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That sounds horrible that way. That's isn't that very interactive? Again?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Yeah, it's Tony and Tina's wedding, except I'd like to
be the victim somebody killed me.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And I imagine in a murder mystery there's less musical.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Numbers, probably, although I do like with that one show
where they where they go around they eat.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Off your plate all five six? Hey, what is honest? Question?
What is what is? What is dress?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
How do you dress for it?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Like I know Tyler is like if you go to
a Broadway show, Tyler wants you dressed up?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
So is this like, are we for Elliot in the
Morning date night? Are the three plus floaters? Are they
gonna have to wear suits?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I don't think you need to wear a suit? Okay,
very good? How about a dress shirt? Yeah? No, but
like no shorts exactly, no shorts, Elliott, I'm asking.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He's talking to himself.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hi, Elliott in the Morning.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I am well, thank you? How are you good?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
So I've been to the Washington County Playhouse. My daughter's
been in their plays and been to their camp. I
know the owners. And I've also had a subscription to Toby's.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh boy, you are all about it? Yeah, you're like
a little dinner theater slot if you will.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Yeah, that is it?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Let me ask you a couple of questions. Is it
all eat and then watch the show?
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, you eat? You watch the show and then an
intermission they can bring you, like different drinks, but you
eat beforehand?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are they? Oh when when you say they bring you drinks,
is there alcohol?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can I get a jack and coke for the show?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Yes, oh yes, oh yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
How about a heavy poor the Tyler.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
There's even mixed drinks for Tyler.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Oh okay, very good. And then what is the what
is the is? It? Is it fun?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
It is?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It is.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
It's a lot of fun and it's the I think
what makes people stay is the community as far as
the actors, because everybody just kind of does everything behind
the scenes and part of the show. And then they
also serve you too.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That sounds I mean, that's nice, that's not But it's buffet.
Who are they? What are they serving? Like up my
plate style?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yes, I need a new plate.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm done.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
So Toby's you serve yourself in a Washingt County playhouse,
they actually serve you. I kind of like that, like
if you walk in line up to the buffet and
they serve you. So it's a little bit different in
each one.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Can I can I ask this also?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
If if if I ever eat and then watch a show,
what time does like how long is the night Jesus.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I saw somebody reference. By the time you pull in,
it's hours.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Well, the show's got to be a couple of hours
at least, and I'm eating. That's it's probably like a
four hour night.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh god, it is.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, wait are you out now?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, it depends what time. What time you can plain,
you can't mock.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
We're establishing all of those rules, and you can't leave
an intermission.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
No, no, But what I'm saying is if you show
up like there's no way I start eating at seven
pm and I don't leave until midnight.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Well, they do have matinees on Sundays, so that's a
possibility too, if you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Think I'm giving up my f and Sunday to go
watch this.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
During the week though too. During the week is the evenings,
but the weekend is where you have the midday.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
But like evenings, like we were gathering at five pm,
we're done eating by five thirty and then I'm in
the car by eight?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Or am I not even eight? Is my ass not
touching my car again until midnight?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, it's probably not until like ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, Sunday night day. It is all right, very good?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yes, Tyler, Yeah, doors at six, show starts at eight.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Eight, two hours.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I don't need two hours two hours to eat.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, they stop the buffet service at seven twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Then let's start the show at seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
So everybody's sitting there looking at each other, waiting till
late o'clock.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh my god, what time does it end? It would
depend on the show.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You know what sounds awesome is the show ending at
ten and then making that short drive from Hagerstown to Arling.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That was Toby's I was reading. I was reading Toby's, Well,
it looks like we're going to Fredericksburg.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And Wes is confirming they do have jack and coke
because when he was eight at the Lazy Susan, the
waiter mixed up his regular Coca cola with his dad's order.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, west combuzz.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Okay, So now let me ask you this, do we
just need to do well? First of all, I don't
know if any of these places want to work with us.
I do love the idea of an Elliott the Morning
Date Night number one, number two. We don't know if
any of these places will work with us. How many
seats are in one of these oh? I don't know,
Like they're not going to give us our own night,
are they?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I don't think so. No, they shouldn't. They shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I don't want to bankrupt what already seems like a
diet business.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
No, they're opening up a new one. Toby's is three
hundred seats.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh that's a lot. Would people go?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Absolutely, we go? Now we've here. Multiple people have said
they have Elliott the morning. Yes, yes, those people. Okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's like, hey, someone called me and told me to tweet. No, no,
all right, so can we look into it?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, we just have to kind of narrow it down
to who we want to contact first, because it does
not seem like any have reached out to us directly
right well this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So also, I want to make sure we go.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
I mean this with no disrespect, but I don't want
to go see some drama like it's got.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
To be on fun You on a musical?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Okay, Like what else am I going to see?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Maybe we'll get
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Grease the Oh you will as soon as since you
get to the buffet.
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