A Dinner Show

Red Baron remembers well the first dinner show he attended in Las Vegas in 1981. Shirley Bassey was the star on stage. 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 a night at one of the on-site hotels.

Freiburg's Münsterbauverein organizes this annual dinner show, and attendees are expected to donate the same amount as the ticket price 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, giving us a chance to walk around the park's winter installations.

Replicas of buildings from the federal states of Berlin, Bavaria, and Hamburg
line the central alley. Their respective flags mark them.
In the back, the Nuremberg Christkindle greets the rare visitor (Click to enlarge).

A slimmed-down 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 equilibrist

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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