We Will Rock You - Queen Musical

New thing today, saw We Will Rock You - a Queen Tribute Musical. We like Queen music, we loved the Rock of Ages musical and movie, so we were excited to see this show. A coworker had free tickets and couldn't go so we picked them up and went on a weeknight - Wednesday night! Look at us crazy people. 

Anyway another new first - went to the Ahmanson theater in downtown LA. New venue to us and it was neat. Felt cozy. Husband noticed how tall the theater was and I noticed our angle of watching the show was pretty steep. We liked the theater and location. 

So the show itself was sorta lame. We still liked the music and the performances of the songs were good, but the overall story and characters were pretty weak. Spoilers! 

Plot - So there's this new future world called "iPlanet" where everything is controlled by the Killer Queen and no music or original thought is allowed. There are these "Bohemian" rebels that want to bring back original rock music and experience real life concerts instead of getting everything from the online iPlanet control. There's a strong baby boomer anti-establishment, preserve rock and roll and your own identity theme. They over-do it, and it's really old and sorta lame. I mean, it just seemed to really appeal to people who loved and lived in the 60s and 70s. Tiring and blah. 

Characters - Eh. They had funny names based on music characters and songs. The main character is Galileo Figuro and the girl is Scaramoosh. The other characters in the Bohemian gang are named after other pop and rock icons. 

Music - The music was well done. It didn't seem to fit into the plot and there were weird parts where they played the music but didn't seem to fit into the plot of the story. OK - so "Another one bites the dust" - they performed it in the 2nd act at a random place. The 1st act, the Killer Queen's minions took down a Bohemian rebel base, and they did NOT sing or use that song. So bizarre? Like, really? Here was a great place to perform that and you didn't?....

Also I wasn't so familiar with some of the songs so I didn't understand how it fit into the plot or what they were singing about, so it was lame. The performers were awesome and belted it out and did great! 

Props and scenery I thought were sorta lame. Eh? Unimpressed.

Jokes - some parts were funny, and they overplayed and some old jokes, but overall just ok. I laughed out loud at some parts, but lost interest in others. Some characters did the comedy part really well. 

Overall husband and I found it rather blah. We would prefer the music on its own than to watch the musical. Although it was sorta entertaining in parts and fun in parts, I got bored and annoyed enough not to give it an overall good rating. I'd say 4 out of 10 stars. 

I would not recommend this, unless you're over 40 or 45... then maybe you'll like it... maybe, or maybe you'd have to be older, donno? I'm glad the tickets were free.