somewhat tardy show review

[Bethany Keeley <blk4 at calvin_edu>]

I was going to post this review earlier but I ended up spending my 
entire Saturday doing this 24 hour theatre thing, so I spent the entire 
day, 9-midnight in and around the lab theatre.  (If anyone wants to 
hear more about that, I'm really geeked and I'll be happy to tell you, 
perhaps offlist)  Suffice to say that I had a fun and intensive acting 
experience.
I went to the Calvin OTR show Friday night.  It was fantastic.  The 
setlist was pretty similar to the one someone posted for Beachland 
Ballroom, except they played a second encore.  I think it was Latter 
Days.  At least, latter days was in there somewhere.  I really didn't 
think they'd come out again, becuase changes come is such a good note 
to end it on, but I'm glad they did.
As for the 5-peice lineup, it was fun to see OTR so rockin' for the 
first time.  I rarely notice drummers, but I really think that Will's 
style added a lot.  (And sorry to go all teenie-bopper on you, but does 
anyone else think he's rather attractive?)  All in all, I think I 
prefer the toned-down acoustic lineup to full band.  Partly because all 
the spectacle of Paul's playing drew my attention away from Linford's 
playing (which I love) and Karin's singing (which everyone loves).  
Paul's equipment though was sure fun and exciting.
I went to the conversation beforehand, and a lot of the information I 
had already read in interviews or whatever, but some new things came 
up.  Karin quipped that at one point she wanted to name the album Cruel 
and Pretty but didn't want people to think that it meant she was cruel 
and linford was pretty.  Another interesting thing I didn't know was 
that having the "f-word" in "Changes Come" has already lost them money 
because some colleges who would have invited them to play decided not 
to becasue of it.  Which, really, is a little silly.  As Linford said, 
what's really daring is to sing lyrics like "Jesus come turn the world 
around take the whole thing down" in some club somewhere, which is what 
they do more often.  My Dad shared some applicable beatles/lennon 
trivia.  This was his first OTR show and I'm excited to talk to him 
about it, but I haven't had a chance yet, due to him leaving soon after 
and me being penned up in the theatre all day yesterday.
So, the show was great.  Stephen Delopelous didn't open after all, 
which was disapointing.  Highlights for me were Cruel and Pretty, 
Changes Come, All I Need is Everything, Latter Days.

Bethany
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