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I have always been reluctant to go to shows where they say there is “audience participation”. I’m the type who likes to hang out in the back of crowds watching people, taking photos and writing the story in my head while I’m there. I never want to have the focus on me. The thought of that makes me recoil in fear. “Tony and Tina’s Wedding,“ playing at Planet Hollywood, is one of those shows that say ‘audience participation.” A tourist invited me to go to this show because all her other friends had plans that night so I decided to brave it.

The participation part wasn’t bad at all, as it turns out! It was really fun. This show starts in the line to get your seat. There was a lady wandering around asking people in line if they’d seen the Priest. She asked person after person and nobody had seen a priest. I had seen a nun, but hadn’t seen a priest. She said she has to find him and that he was her husband. Well, being terribly slow, I got that joke approximately thirty minutes later. It was one of those things… I was sitting in my chair watching the show and went, “OH!” and chucked. I elbowed Rhonda next to me and explained I finally got that. She giggled, “OH!”

When you’re standing in line you’re thinking about getting in and getting a nice seat, you really aren’t prepared to have actors milling about talking to you. You can see they are very well dressed but you won’t realize they are the actors from the show.

Another guy in line was terribly excited to get in and see the show. We chatted with him and as it turns out he and I were probably the only Jews in the place. He was a peculiar character himself and probably should have been part of the show. I was sure he escaped from a Star Trek Convention. He was having the time of his life, it seemed, especially when a couple of the pretty actresses paid a whole lot of attention to him. Of course, we were seated next to him and talked with him throughout the show.

“Tony and Tina’s Wedding” is just like being at a wedding. It could be anyone’s wedding. It could be anyone’s culture, but this one was Italian. The cast of characters are mixed into the crowd and they constantly intermingle with the guests. You are even seated by the actors while playing their parts, and of course, you are laughing all the way to your seat.

This is dinner theater and yes, there was great food. Everyone is seated family style, so you will share your table with at least eight other strangers. The wedding starts and quickly gets to the nuptials. There are some speeches and the microphone is recovered from one particularly odd brother-in-law. After a little dancing to the live band, yep, everyone dancing too, you get called to the buffet by table.

There were a couple of yummy salads, bread sticks, lasagna and some parmesan chicken on the buffet. It went quick and everyone got their dinners without a struggle. As we ate there was more acting out by wedding guests and there was never a dull moment.

The actors go from table to table mixing it up with the guests while staying in character. Of course the priest got tipsy and the dim witted nun fell down on the dance floor. My favorite was the flaming gay brother who looked a lot more like Peewee Herman than Italian. Imagine my joy when he turned out on the dance floor with fire red, stiletto heals on. I can’t walk in those, but he could dance!

I kept staring at the singer in the band. He looked very, very familiar. I had this happen to me once before in my life. Once in Salt Lake City I was in synagogue and recognized someone from my past. I knew right away what time period I knew that guy from and where, and was really afraid he’d recognize me. This time, the guy in the band might have been from much farther back in time, maybe the mid-1970s. I could never place him and settled on the idea I probably saw him perform in Vegas at some point and I don’t know him at all. And I like that idea much better than the alternative.

“Tony and Tina’s Wedding” is a really fun show. Don’t let the audience participation part scare you at all. You aren’t required to do anything, you just get to be part of some fictional wedding. And weddings are always good when you don‘t have to be in them, aren’t they?

Tickets are $65.00 and show times are Mon – Wed & Fri – Sat at 7pm, at Planet Hollywood.

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