Drury Lane Theatrical Productions

Community theater in Burlington pretty much means if you’re under 65 you will likely be the youngest person in the audience. The theater is set up dinner theater style although no dinner is served. There’s a cash bar and you can enjoy beer/​wine/​etc. before, during, and after the show. Every table has a complimentary basket of chips. They don’t soak you for the booze. $ 5 for a bottle of imported beer, for example.
Productions can be of variable quality. This is community theater in a small, homogenous community. One won’t get much in the way of a full orchestra, either, backing the production. We recently saw The Mikado. Like I say, this wasn’t Stratford’s definitive rendition of this Gilbert & Sullivan classic (
). Nanki-​Poo could not carry a tune but Yum-​Yum carried off her operatic singing as good as any production I’ve seen mounted by a professional Toronto company. The supporting cast carried off their comedic acting well and delivered reasonable singing abilities. The Lord High Executioner’s «List» song is always a high point and had suitable local references.
Lots of parking. Oddly, I thought trying to get out of the parking lot after the show, with 80 old people in Cadillacs and Lincolns all trying to navigate their way out, would be a certain hell. But it seems most of the audience hangs around after the show and socializes. The vast majority of people seem to have season tickets, «their» tables, and know each other. That’s not to say if you’re a random walk-​in you’re an outsider there to poison their water supply and give them polio. People are pretty friendly.