For The Record presents Tarantino

New thing today, watched For The Record presents Tarantino - songs and scenes inspired by the films of Mr. Tarantino. This was pretty amazing awesome and I highly highly recommend it. They have a live band and singers perform songs from Tarantino films, interspersed with actual performances recreating the most memorable scenes. It's a pretty great mash-up and mix of Tarantino music and theater. A huge kudos to the cast and crew of the performance we saw! They were absolutely fantastic!

We saw our show at the DBA in Hollywood - which is this really neat venue with great ambiance, and a roomy seating area which feels cozy for the showplace. The actual action of the show takes place all over the DBA, and not just on the main stage, which made it really really cool.

All the actors did a wonderful job singing and performing their pieces. I was especially impressed by Rumor Willis who played the Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill) and Mia Wallace (Pulp Fiction) characters. I was a bit hesitant she wouldn't be that good since she has the name and the Hollywood parent lineage, that perhaps they only recruited her for her star power. No - she absolutely rocked it out and performed just as high a caliber as all the other cast.

Oh and the entire ENTIRE cast was absolutely fantastic. They all rocked it out completely. They looked like they were having a great time too, and it just seemed like they all had incredible talent. I hope they have fantastic careers, and I'm not a theater person, but it seems like these people are already successful, or will be successful in their careers, from what I saw in the show.

There were a few hitches in the show and in my experience. They had to play late since their drummer didn't show up and they needed a last minute replacement, so we ended up getting impromptu random performances from the cast which was really entertaining. James Byous rocked out some incredible blues numbers and three lovely ladies sang Fever a cappella which was awesome. So that wasn't so terrible, but a waitress spilled a drink all over my back, sweater and purse, so I sat in damp clothes pissed off for the last half of the show and everything smelled like alcohol, so that was super annoying and frustrating. I tried not to let it bother me in the second half of the show, but honestly it did and it sort of ruined it for me.

But all that aside, I rave for the DBA in Hollywood and this show Tarantino! I would go watch it all over again and this was a really awesome highlight to the weekend!