Can anything else go wrong?

We had another Double Take Celebrity Impersonators show this past Wednesday. We were sold out two weeks early! This was our holiday show. We were cruising along getting everything ready….and then the day of the show, hit a thousand glitches. Okay, “stay calm, stay calm”……Ohmmmmmmmm……


One of our principal players got stuck at work….(there was an accident involving one of the workers, and he couldn’t leave) we were supposed to put two of the speakers on stands when he got there……but that wasn’t gonna happen, so we improvised and used bar stools.

We were all watching the minutes tick by as we were waiting for him. We’ve never started exactly on time….but now we were stretching it. Most of the folks in the audience were busy talking and didn’t really notice, but you’ve always got those few who are gonna complain. One woman was under the impression that we were waiting for everyone to finish eating, and went off on a rant about. I was trying to explain that the delay was due to circumstances beyond our control, but she kept going on and on and on about why should she have to wait for everyone to finish eating, when she ate early…blah blah blah. I finally told her she needed to stop talking, so I could explain the delay to her.

Anyways….we were all getting a lot antsy….and then he arrived!!! Within a couple of minutes, we started the show.

Turns out all the performers brought their “A” game that night. I’ve never heard so many people singing along with Karen Carpenter! When Neil Diamond (who’s also our sound man) got up and joined her in a duet of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” the audience gasped…their mouths hung open and they started clapping.

Then when Neil did “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show,” we brought out the Neil Diamond Gospel Dancers, complete with choir robes! They loved it!

I’ve never seen so many pictures being taken when Cher went table to table, singing to all the men.

For our last act….two of the servers wheeled out a cart with a giant box on it, all wrapped for Christmas …..and out popped Lady Gaga! Katie (Lady Gaga) finished up with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Katie is incredibly talented, and took that song, and made it her own, via Lady Gaga…..it was magnificent!!! When she finished, the audience was yelling “MORE! MORE!”

No one remembered that the show started late.