I'm a native of Edmonton, where I've proudly worked as a bank teller for 20 years and have been active in the ETU (Edmonton Teller's Union) for the past 8 years. I also have recently been elected co-subchairwoman of the LLP (Loony Loaners Parade), an annual family event celebrating Edmonton's diverse finance industry. So as you can see, my roots are so deep here that I don't have the time or luxury to travel outside Alberta, and frankly, nor would I want to, because the low bar of artistic and culinary expectations that Edmonton has set for me feels safe, while any external forays into culture are overwhelming, confusing, terrifying, and frequently violate the minimal expectations of the world around me which Edmonton has so magnificently instilled into me.
There are those special moments in your life when all your hard work is rewarded in the most breathtaking way. For my efforts as LLP co-subchairwoman, I was awarded a gift certificate for two tickets to Jubilations Dinner Theatre! How was it...? Well, I guess my five-star review might be a spoiler alert LOL! The truth is, Jubilations Dinner Theater is the PERFECT combination of high-class entertainment and gourmet food for any Edmontonian like me who has absolutely no expectations of quality whatsoever! If you're looking to spend a night out wining and dining on the best food with a taste of Broadway-caliber theatre, maybe for a special event or just for kicks, you're lying to yourself! You're in Edmonton! Life here is good enough (at best), and you're not talented, interesting, or successful enough to have escaped yet.
So now, since you're here, if what you're REALLY looking for is a bad Middle School play written, produced, and acted by retards, that you watch amidst a bunch of barely-alert elderly people slurping up food that Vegas buffets donated from leftover airline food stock, you are going to LOVE this experience!
As a big fan of such television entertainment as The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, I'm used to turning off my brain and drooling over a reheated meatloaf while I escape from the banality of my tedious job by way of the banality of garbage entertainment. So it was a super neat treat to get dressed up and go have that same experience live and in person with 100 other slack-jawed skinsacks who, like me, actually laughed and clapped at this grade school mess of a production and ate their reheated gruel with pleasure, because, like me, they just don't know any gosh darn better!
In summary, you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't live in Edmonton. And if you still live in Edmonton, let's be honest, you're never going to get out. So release your delusions of grandeur and get your tickets right now, because going to the mall to watch a bunch of drama school drop-outs sing out of tune while half-retarded people wearing bad wigs serve you leftovers from the local prison is the best it's going to get around here, and you know it.
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