A Dinner Show

Red Baron remembers well the first dinner show he attended in Las Vegas in 1981. The star on stage was Shirley Bassey. At that show, she possibly performed All by Myself, one of her hits then.

42 years later, I went again to a dinner show at Europa Park north of Freiburg. The park is organized like a Disneyland. People come from France and Switzerland with or without kids and sometimes stay for a night at one of the hotels on-site.

This particular annual dinner show is organized by Freiburg’s Münsterbauverein, and attendees are supposed to donate the same amount of money as for the show to support the Minster Church.

You may remember that Red Baron is a Münsterpfleger. So once in my life,  I wanted to attend the special yearly dinner show on the condition that transport between Freiburg and Europa Park was provided.

On the last Wednesday in November, our coach left Freiburg at 15:30 to give us a chance to walk around the winterly installations of the park.

Replicas of buildings from the federal states of Berlin, Bavaria, and Hamburg
line the central alley. They are marked by their respective flags.
In the back, the Nuremberg Christkindle greets the rare visitor (Click to enlarge).

A slimmed-dow copy of Freiburg's Kaufhaus

It was getting dark.
The rape of Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull.

In the Roaring 20s, dinner shows were typical in Paris, London, and Berlin, but the show culture was all American.

     

Ouverture

The dinner show at Europa Park was no exception. The songs performed were already in English. Red Baron was delighted to listen to music he remembers well:

Smile though your Heart is Aching

I am Singin’ in the Rain

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

One Moment in Time

Here are some stage photos.

Note the ceiling painting: Europa and the Zeus bull.

Flying high

Out of the bathtub

A strong equilibritist

More dancing and singing

The end is near.

Thank you audience

They placed me at the table already filled with seven members of one family. They were all nice; the conversation flowed, and the dinner was excellent.

Will I be able to re-attend next year?

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