So on Sunday I headed up to my home city of Birmingham and went to the Glee club to see the Live "Welcome to Night Vale" show. I was surprised about the number of youngsters in the queue with their parents. Apparently the podcast has a high number of young female listeners!
The show started off with a set from The Weather - Mary Epworth. To be honest, i could have done without this. I'm sure she's very good with a band, but her solo guitar playing seemed hesitant at times and she did a song using backing track from an ipad. I couldn't help but think that if you aren't going to have your band with you, then maybe you need to pick different songs from your set to play.
Anyway. On to the show!
Jeffrey Cranor as the mc, who gave a humorous recounting of healthy and safely and rocked an awesome bow-tie.
Cecil Baldwin as Cecil! You can tell that not only is he an excellent voice actor, but has also done a lot of theatre. He knew how to play with the audience and with his gestures and body brought us into the story further.
And then we have Joseph Fink as Intern Joe. He looks completely different to how I imagined, and it was great to have him on stage.
Then Jeffrey came back on to do a turn as "Dave" the voice of American Express.
Kate Jones as Michelle Nguyen was a lot of fun, and the eye rolls add so much!
Desiree Burch as Pamela Winchell, because we need emergency press conferences about Librarians.
The entire cast, including The Weather by Mary Epworth.
The show was funny, and interactive. I thought more people would cosplay though. I saw a Kevin and a few Cecils. There were also a lot of people wearing Night Vale t-shirts, which violates the gig-going code.
Overall it was a great experience, the cast clearly loving the experience and the feedback from the crowd. I know they stopped around outside to take pictures and sign posters for the young fans.
I'd be interested in seeing Baldwin in another role, as he is so closely tied to Night Vale but is clearly a very good actor.
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