The Letterman

This evening we went over to the ballroom at the Radisson Hotel. I had purchased tickets for The Lettermen Christmas Show from on-line. I had to go over to the Casino entrance to pick up the tickets from Will Call. The ad said the doors would open at 5 PM for the show that would start at 7 PM. We got there about six. I was surprised to see how many of the seats had coats and pieces of paper on them to "reserve" them. I guess I think there's something a bit wrong about sending someone ahead to reserve a whole bunch of seats and then arriving at the last minute. I remember at Granddaughter Havela's graduation whole rows were "reserved" like that.

The Lettermen have been together with various members of the trio since the1960's. One of the fellows had been with the group since the beginning while the other two had been involved for eight and twelve years. They started off with a couple of Christmas songs, then sang a medley of their many hits.

 

The crowd was mostly seniors and most of them knew all the words and sang along. There was a group of women in the row behind us who were quite inebriated who either sang along very loudly or talked amongst themselves the entire show. (One of them even made a phone call during the show telling whoever she talked to about where she was...!)

It was a good show with a lot of the songs we remembered from our early married and baby-making years. I don't understand, however, how you can do an entire Christmas show and not sing a single Christmas carol or hymn.

This large fire circle is right outside the entrance to the hotel and conference center. It really lit up the night.

The large saguaro cacti were also doing their part to add to the festive appeal --

It was a fun night.