#funhouse lounge

As someone that’s not a huge fan of musicals (though I do like some) and someone that likes but does not love the original film, I highly recommend this. The amount of singing is relatively small percentage wise, but just enough in my opinion.

Die Hard was huge in the 80’s, fizzled out in popularity and then in the mid to late 2000’s re-emerged as a classic and was really “cool” to watch as a Christmas movie, and although better than most Christmas movies, and even though I’ve watched it at least half a dozen times, it just was never as awesome to me as it was to others.

Don’t get me wrong, as far as action movies go it’s essential, and worth watching at least a couple of times (if not three times), but once I hit that fourth time I felt it started losing its magic. All that being said, this musical was thoroughly entertaining, and made by folks that truly loved the movie, while also doing a perfect job of making fun of even the smallest nuances.

Often musicalizing a film like this, while good in theory, is often not executed well, this however I would consider an exception. It felt like the cast was able to improvise and be creative and it showed in how much fun they seemed to be having. The cast even at its silliest or most serious always committed fully to the role. My favorite part was the girl that played Hans Gruber with an intentionally bad German accent that generated laughter with almost every sentence she spoke. I would say one of the funniest performances I’ve ever seen on stage.

The actor playing Bruce Willis was over the top with his impersonations of Bruce but never to the point of it not being funny. “Yippy-Ky

-Yay…” being the most famous quote, they not only did a song about him coming up with a catch phrase, but also a song right after finding the catchphrase, where the chorus is them yelling “Yippy-Ky-Yay Mother…”

If you get tickets get them online ahead of time, in case it sells out. It is expensive but in my opinion worth it, much more entertaining than most of the theatre I’ve seen in Portland. Please support small theatres like these, they worked really hard on this and created something that is far more unique than most performances you’ll find around here.

My only beef is that it could’ve been perfect with a two hour length instead of three hours, but even still it’s worth a watch. Lots of laughs. I give it 8.5 stars out of 10.

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A source who worked at the Funhouse Lounge told Women Are Human:    “I was kicked out of the troop for refusing to go along with the Woke s**t and not finding stuff like this funny. I was just on the phone with the owner yesterday explaining to him that he may have some angry women on his hands. He dismissed it and said that Corina’s material was “interesting.”

   I worked for nearly three years at Funhouse watching the owner let more and more people get away with encouraging violence, always to lean back on, “I don’t censor my entertainment.” As soon as I made fun of the non-binary nonsense, he censored me. 

  My recommendation is to go to the Funhouse Lounge Facebook page and leave a review since they allow you to. Corina is one of several ‘comics’ in town that use Funhouse as their preferred church to mission their hate. The Portland Queer Comedy Festival isn’t a comedy festival or in any way an LGB event. It’s a gender propaganda convention with free joints.“