We were out there as well today. Busy, but not unmanageable. We were also focusing on the shows, not the rides at all.
Saw the very first showing of Rueben's Swashbuckling Adventure, appeared briefly in the livestream (Hi Terry!), and enjoyed the show. My wife doesn't generally like musicals, so she was "ehhh" but I really enjoyed it. You can tell it's brand new- a couple of the actors are still trying to get comfortable in their roles, but overall I thought it was a good show with some great music, and some very funny bits in it as well. Most of us will recognize one of the main actors, who now has an ironic bit in common with his wife. But I'll leave that there as a fun surprise for others to figure out.
We really enjoyed the juggler comedian Greg Bennick. Sons of Silver Dollar put on a great show as well (only caught a few minutes of it) the "Dance Explosion" is the cloggers with a different show- more modern dance less clogging. I dunno, I like the clogging better. It was ok, but not something I'd likely stop to see again.
Bart and Brooklyn Rockett were pretty decent- better than a lot of adult magicians I've seen. But they are still kids, and had a couple of blown moments. I think the biggest issue is that for our show at least the crowd while pretty large was stone dead and cold, and the kids just don't have the ability to work with a hard crowd. That's not any fault of theirs, that's age as much as anything. (and maybe not helped by being overhyped by the preshow videos, which should be cut down to about 1/3rd of what they are). The one thing my wife and I kept thinking though is if that was our kids up there, we would have had a hard time not yelling at the crowd to lighten up and cheer them on just for being kids doing their best. And even though there were a couple of slips, they were better than half of the magicians I've seen doing shows in Branson.
had a late lunch/ early dinner at wagon works, which still has the best burgers and fries in the park.
We closed out with the Pickers, who finally got a chance to make it down to the Picking Shed after so much rain the last few weeks. Then headed home. Overall really enjoyed our day at the park.
I'll have a video preview and vlog posting up hopefully on Tuesday showing everything we saw.