Flutterby™! : Chicago

Went to see Chicago yesterday evening. Mostly watchable, but the second act really drags, the music has no soul, and Renée Zellweger's lip synching was intrusive at times. It really sounded like the band and the conductor were going through the motions, phoning in their performances.

But the dancing and the costumes got us in the mood for some cabaret, so we dropped into the city. Soup and salad at Rock Soup(I love food prices in The Mission), where the band for the evening showed us good timing, then over to the Odeon to see Kitten on the Keys and Mr. Tinkler open for the Devil-ettes doing interpretive dance to the music of Harvey Sid Fisher. Kitten and Mr. Tinkler did mostly the old favorites that we'd seen before (some samples here), with a new ode to the Hello Kitty Vibrator that was... unrehearsed, and I mean that in a good way. Unfortunately, Harvey Sid Fisher and the Devil-ettes ended up on the lower stage, and we didn't find the music compelling enough to watch on the overhead TVs from our table, so we bailed towards home.

Oh, and since most of my drinking has been up in the financial district recently, I'd forgotten what a real bartender can do with a Manhattan.