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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Franken breaks down the Trump Tulsa Totter
Link to tweet
Al Franken
@alfranken
6,200 people at Trump rally in Tulsa. Acts that had bigger crowds at the same venue in 2019:
- Sha Na Na
- The Pips (w/o Gladys Knight)
- Loverboy
- John Tesh
- The West Virginia Touring Company of La Traviata
Cha
(296,773 posts)leftieNanner
(15,058 posts)Pink tweeted yesterday that she sold out that arena in about 5 minutes, but she's PINK, for heaven's sakes!
These aren't exactly, ahem, top line acts.
John Tesh? OMG!
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Nor is Donnie...
MyOwnPeace
(16,917 posts)you DO have the RIGHT words!
Hey, MyOwnPeace.
coti
(4,612 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)"she's Pink" and an awesome lady of music, imo.
leftieNanner
(15,058 posts)MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)I guess thats his point.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,236 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)LOL!
BootinUp
(47,053 posts)fierywoman
(7,666 posts)Captain Zero
(6,778 posts)Nt
fierywoman
(7,666 posts)West Virginia opera got more people than Trump ?!?!?!?
Marthe48
(16,894 posts)My husband and his large family was from there, and we live in Ohio, just across the Ohio River. In the 1990's Gaston Caperton was governor of WV and was married to Rachel Worby, who conducted the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and really elevated classical music or awareness of it in WV. I have friends who attend a live music performance every month in Parkersburg, probably on hold for now.
Even though I live well away from major cities, I have never felt isolated from the fine arts in this area.
LisaM
(27,792 posts)I.do.associate West Virginia with a.muaical tradition.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,563 posts)And that's a paid event, not a free one!
liberalla
(9,221 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This won't set well with the big baby. Loverboy, fer crissakes?!
Dem2theMax
(9,637 posts)If John Tesh can pull a bigger crowd, Trump is toast.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)niyad
(113,021 posts)Attend pro football games.also, that one year, scalped tickets for an Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway premiere were much more expensive than scalped super bowl tickets.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Because there's about 35 million NFL attendees a year, and if you figure that the average theatre in which you'd produce opera has about 500 seats, you'd need over 70,000 (expensive, labor-intensive) opera productions to equal the NFL.
So I don't think so.
And scalped Superbowl tickets have topped out a $60,000 each, a price I don't think even Hamilton can get close to.
(Not to mention that Webber's work is musical theatre rather than opera, and so an entirely different kettle of fish.)
AllyCat
(16,135 posts)erronis
(15,170 posts)What people will do for $50 or a slice of pizza or a chance to catch a virus.
Or a chance to see their messiah before he is deep-sixed.
AllyCat
(16,135 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Al is the best
Harker
(13,957 posts)Woo! Woo!
NoMoreRepugs
(9,364 posts)than magats that stood around there for 5-10 minutes.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)"We've never had an empty seat.
And we certainly won't in Oklahoma."
The silver lining is at least Trump got to upstage Clint Eastwood.
Clint only spoke to one empty chair. (Got that from another poster)
Link to tweet
malaise
(268,664 posts)It's all ridicule from here
True Blue American
(17,981 posts)klook
(12,151 posts)but also the Invisible Majority!
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Beartracks
(12,794 posts)I don't think that was true even before Tulsa, was it?
Why can't his fans see that Trump is just a huckster? His schtick is like the robo-calls those same voters probably complain about during dinner.
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ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)like a special souvenir to always remember this experience
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)klook
(12,151 posts)JohnTesh?!?!
(I just posted the same Tweet and then saw your thread. Al Franken is a national treasure.)
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)Larry Moecurley
(72 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I, very much, want the chance to vote.
OnlinePoker
(5,715 posts)None of these acts performed in the BOK Center since at least 2017. Me thinks Al Franken was being facetious.
JenniferJuniper
(4,507 posts)the Dead Milkmen once said they were the greatest band of all time.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,131 posts)Trump's rally was free
soldierant
(6,785 posts)I recommend "MacBath." If the effects are a problem do it unstaged. It's that well written. It will still work - even better than Shakespeare.
La Traviata can be made or broken by the blend the soprano and the tenor can get going in Act II, and that's a lot harder that you think it is if you've only ever heard A listers singing it.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)2nd rate music, incomprehensible plot
Straw Man
(6,622 posts)... there was no COVID in 2019. Some Trump cultists may risk death to see their Dear Leader in the (ample) flesh, but somehow I doubt that even the most rabid Loverboy fans would do the same.
JHB
(37,152 posts)...Donnie burned through his entire lifetime allotment of "to be fair" sometime back during the Reagan administration.
Straw Man
(6,622 posts)... he never had any to begin with.
Crowman2009
(2,490 posts)....and had 10k more per game than at Drumpf's rally.
There are minor-league teams with better per game attendance as well.