Posted on Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Being a Theatre Critic and not a Music Critic, you must have strayed into the Gaiety by mistake last Monday night, possibly looking for the rear entrance to Neary’s Pub, but you certainly arrived with the word “Prejudice” burned into your furrowed brow; how it must have galled you to hear the rapturous welcome I received at the start of the show; how you must have writhed at every standing ovation, how you must have cringed at every call of “Chris, we love you”, how you must have felt isolated as the audience rose to their feet as one, singing, dancing and shouting out for more; how you must have growled to yourself as you left, surrounded by so many happy
people, to make your curmudgeonly way to the safety of the street outside. You really should look up the word “Entertainment’ again, you might be surprised to see that it is all about people having a GOOD TIME!!
