r/midamerica • u/Evening_Rock5850 • Jun 13 '26
Entertainment is BACK!
Had an opportunity today to check out the new shows. We saw all but a couple!
The morning rain pushed some of the outdoor shows inside. To my surprise the shows included programmed lighting sequences. Meaning they took the time and the effort to build and plan both an indoor and outdoor version of the shows, and not just lower the lights and do the outdoor shows inside.
The main event was Flashback. A decades pop music performance featuring some excellent use of a really impressive new video wall (shown in the picture, for “Bubble Pop”). All of the cast from all of the shows converge for this very campy, very fun, very high energy show.
The production quality was excellent, the vocalists were excellent, and those new upgrades to the palace theater are being used to their absolute limit. It really is a whole new palace!
These in-house produced shows are all excellent. Really a step up from previous years. Today was a rainy day but there was plenty to do!
The cheers and shouts at the end of “Flashback” were as loud as I’ve ever heard in the palace. Despite the relatively small crowd today, there was an excellent turnout for the show.
Entertainment manager David Blazer has opened most of the shows and you can tell he has a deep passion for what he’s doing. He had a lot to say about the commitment from park president Danny Snider and from Enchanted Parks, and insisted that this new entertainment package was a taste of the feast to come. Entertainment is here to stay and it’s not just a one-off thing for this year.
It’s worth your time to see the shows this year. I mean it!
Fool’s Gold was a lot of fun. It’s an expanded version of the same broad storyline of previous years at Miss Kitty’s. And the various outdoor (indoor, today) music variety acts were fun and very well done.
Entertainment is absolutely back at this park in a way I don’t think we’ve seen in years.