Escape To Margaritaville Tour

Anyone catch the tour yet? I saw it Wednesday night in Orlando. I wasn't expecting much, since I read the comments on here from the Broadway run. Plus I'm not a big fan of Jimmy Buffett. It was okay, nothing more, nothing less. I viewed a clip on youtube of the original cast and they greatly differed in appearance of the touring cast. I always thought tour casting mirrored the Broadway production. I am most curious to know if the tour has changes from the Broadway show. I don't remember seeing dancing clouds. It could be my attention was focused away at the moment. Lucky me, had an obnoxious pair in front of me. He was drunk and talking and singing in full volume. Although it was cold in the venue, she fanned herself with her playbill, the entire show. How she could do that without her arm getting tired, amazed me.

"They need to just put it on a cruise ship. Or into the Buffet hotel?"

I agree, this is a perfect show for cruise ship.

Is it actually possible for a Non-equity national tour to be better than the Broadway production? Caught this last night at the newly refurbished State Theater in New Brunswick, NJ. Had such a blast. Now, I enjoyed the Broadway production as well, but the tour just had more energy. Maybe the Broadway cast knew it was a flop after it opened and would quickly close? Also, the dancing clouds are gone. The tour is finishing up it's original run after COVID halted it's first year short. The tour is expected to go out again in 2022 sometime.



FYI, the newly refurbished State Theater is beautiful. It just reopened on Wednesday and this tour is its first event. Though a shame as the show on a Saturday night was less than 50% sold.

Jersey person here-was also at the matinee at the State Theater today. The renovation is stunning-if you have friends out on the road this year, come join us in New Brunswick to see what $25 million can do to a 100 year old venue. Message me on here and I'll buy first round at one of the restaurants in town.

I agree with ACL, I think I enjoyed this more than I did on Broadway-the script is still God-awful, but they seemed to be playing up the camp in what they were saying and doing more than the New York company did. Is this Shakespeare-absolutely not, but it's certainly a lot of fun. I'm honestly surprised Royal or Norwegian haven't commissioned a 90-minute tab script to throw on a ship-It would play perfectly in that setting.

A few stray thoughts:

The physical package looked bigger than the 4 trucks they are on the road with, and, thanks to the new rigging, it seemed like more of the show made it in the door than we usually see in New Brunswick.

How often are you going to see live steel drums with a non-equity tour.

Yes, the bar ran out of Margaritas at intermission.

Skip23 said: "Just saw the matinee in New Brunswick.

Is the set cut down for this tour?

Dancers were very strong. Yay.

Leads were rather bland. Although there’s not much in the script and production to make distinctive.

Don’t know if it was just me, but I couldn’t understand most of the dialogue. Seemed very non-equity - first rule of theatre - ee-nun-see-ate guys and gals. "

Non-equity doesn't mean amateur. Joining equity doesn't improve your diction if it was bad to begin with.