Botcon Attendee's Guide to Florida: Part 3
Jun. 8th, 2010 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosieknightPart 3: Dinner Shows
Sleuths: A dinner theater that you can visit multiple times and never see the same show twice. Sleuths has a rotating selection of about 14 comedic murder mystery plays, all family friendly. Each show features a cast of four or five suspects, each with motives and opportunities to commit the crime, and a great deal of audience participation. I highly recommend Sleuths for anyone wanting to try a dinner show in Orlando.
Medieval Times: The basic premise of this show is a tournament between several knights in a country. The audience is divided into sections, each rooting for a different knight and from a different kingdom. There's jousting, sword fighint, and a mysterious villain to fight the champion. I highly recommend this show, unless you have an aversion to eating with your hands.
Pirates' Adventure: This dinner show has probably the best pre-show of all the dinner shows, where you can wander among various entertainers - joke tellers, jugglers, fortunetellers - as you wait for the doors to open. The main theater itself both lives up to and falls short of the waiting area's build-up. The stage is composed of a large replica of a pirate ship, sitting atop of a huge pool of water. While an impressive feat of engineering, this tremendously limits the amount of the show can be seen by the audience. Add to that one of the largest casts in a dinner show, many of whom are wearing similar costumes, and you have a recipe for a confused audience. I recommend skipping this show unless you really like pirates and have good character identification skills.
Capone's: To be perfectly honest, I'd thought this dinner show had gone out a business. I'm glad to be wrong, though. Capone's is a blast. You enter the dinner theater by giving a password to the person behind the door and are immersed in a world of 1930's Chicago gangsters - even the waiters are in character. I recommend this place for people who like Italian food and 1930's mobsters.
Arabian Nights: This show is great for horse lovers as it features lots and lots of horses and ponies. There's not much else, however. The whole plot line is "Princess who loves horses is taken on a world tour by a magical being to find a guy who loves horses as much as she does". I think the plot was just a way to tie all of the segments of different types of horses, different cultures with horses, and different types of horse riding together. If you're a horse lover, go see this show. Otherwise, skip it.
Go back to the Intro.
Sleuths: A dinner theater that you can visit multiple times and never see the same show twice. Sleuths has a rotating selection of about 14 comedic murder mystery plays, all family friendly. Each show features a cast of four or five suspects, each with motives and opportunities to commit the crime, and a great deal of audience participation. I highly recommend Sleuths for anyone wanting to try a dinner show in Orlando.
Medieval Times: The basic premise of this show is a tournament between several knights in a country. The audience is divided into sections, each rooting for a different knight and from a different kingdom. There's jousting, sword fighint, and a mysterious villain to fight the champion. I highly recommend this show, unless you have an aversion to eating with your hands.
Pirates' Adventure: This dinner show has probably the best pre-show of all the dinner shows, where you can wander among various entertainers - joke tellers, jugglers, fortunetellers - as you wait for the doors to open. The main theater itself both lives up to and falls short of the waiting area's build-up. The stage is composed of a large replica of a pirate ship, sitting atop of a huge pool of water. While an impressive feat of engineering, this tremendously limits the amount of the show can be seen by the audience. Add to that one of the largest casts in a dinner show, many of whom are wearing similar costumes, and you have a recipe for a confused audience. I recommend skipping this show unless you really like pirates and have good character identification skills.
Capone's: To be perfectly honest, I'd thought this dinner show had gone out a business. I'm glad to be wrong, though. Capone's is a blast. You enter the dinner theater by giving a password to the person behind the door and are immersed in a world of 1930's Chicago gangsters - even the waiters are in character. I recommend this place for people who like Italian food and 1930's mobsters.
Arabian Nights: This show is great for horse lovers as it features lots and lots of horses and ponies. There's not much else, however. The whole plot line is "Princess who loves horses is taken on a world tour by a magical being to find a guy who loves horses as much as she does". I think the plot was just a way to tie all of the segments of different types of horses, different cultures with horses, and different types of horse riding together. If you're a horse lover, go see this show. Otherwise, skip it.
Go back to the Intro.