Live performance Evaluation: The Snowed in Comedy Tour, Prince Rupert, Lester Centre, Jan. 10
What began out 14 years in the past as principally an excuse for a paid northwest B.C. snowboarding/snowboarding trip has became a winter comedy tour-de-force that spans 69 cities throughout the nation.
After sledding and shredding within the pristine powder of the Smithers backcountry for a few days, the Snowed In Comedy Tour swung by way of Prince Rupert on Tuesday (Jan. 10).
Dan Quinn, tour founder and avid snowboarder, mentioned whereas the tour has grown from 9 exhibits within the first yr and the audiences are bigger, the comedians nonetheless honour the roots of it.
“So, we frolicked all day and [friends] took us sledding within the backcountry, we went snowboarding, [it was] thrilling,” Quinn mentioned.
On Tuesday night, emcee Pete Zedlacher whipped up the half-capacity Lester Centre crowd with energetic story-telling and zany antics establishing the viewers like dominoes to be knocked down by the next three comedians, Quinn, Erica Sigurdson and Paul Myrehaug.
They didn’t disappoint.
Quinn’s acerbic wit adopted by Sigurdson’s sardonic observational type was the right setup for tales of Myrehaug’s outrageous private exploits.
Rattling humorous in its particular person components, the general present added as much as a well-planned, cohesive entire that left Prince Rupert jaws aching and sides break up.
It was an ideal tonic for the post-holiday winter blues.
The comedians loved it too.
“That was actually enjoyable, crowd, we had a good time,” Quinn mentioned.
The tour strikes on to Terrace tonight (Jan. 11) on the R.E.M. Theatre and Smithers Jan. 12 on the Status Hudson Bay Lodge earlier than heading south and east.
If you happen to don’t have already got tickets to this present, get them… now!
They wind up on April 8 in Halifax, NS.
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