It was the first official day of SMOFCon 34, with programming in the afternoon and the official opening ceremonies in the evening, followed by socializing and fun, which in this case included a game show.

( No, Not Match Game SF, but Close )

Ken Patterson has put together a BASFA outing to this Friday night's performance of The Game Show Show. Lisa has decided that she'd like to see it, although she always is nervous about such things due to her tinnitus. Speaking of nervous, a storm is heading into the area that it apt to drop snow on the passes Thursday (and on Fernley on Friday), so ( Read more... )

When I heard that Ken & Jerry Patterson were going to be at this afternoon's final performance of Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show, I impulsively bought a ticket, finding the seat next to them (the only one available on the lower rows at that point). It turned out to be quite a BASFA affair, with a fair number of other members turning up for ( Read more... )

After seeing Lisa off to head to Fernley this afternoon (she's back home safely), I headed off this evening to see (again) the final evening performance of Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show at The Retrodome. Shortly before curtain, I heard a familiar voice say, "Is this seat taken?" and David W. Clark sat next to me. By sheer coincidence, Dave ( Read more... )

Having been given a discount code good for $16 off the price of a ticket, and with Lisa's blessing, I've purchased a ticket to the final night of Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show at the RetroDome. (There's a final matinee performance on Sunday afternoon as well ( Read more... )

Last night I attended what was officially a "preview" performance of Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show, a musical about American game shows of the 1950's, 60's and 70's. I arrived very early and was asked if I wanted to be one of the audience members who become part of the show as contestants, and of course I said "Yes!" So they took down my ( Read more... )

I have purchased a ticket for tonight's performance of Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show, a musical comedy based on game shows, at the Retrodome in San Jose. I had something to do with this show, in that they borrowed my ECM-51a "Match Game" microphone to serve as a model for the one they're using in the show. (I'm looking forward to getting my ( Read more... )

I know that April 1 is very late to be announcing a change to a show that we're doing on April 2 at Norwescon (9 PM Friday evening, Cascade 9), but after much reflection and consideration, we've decided that recreating a 1970s game show is simply too retro for most of our audience, a really significant number of whom weren't even born when the show ( Read more... )

When I got to the office this morning, I was relieved to find the bag of Match Game questions and supplies (envelopes, contestant cards, etc.) sitting on my desk. I say relieved because I was starting to worry that I'd accidentally thrown them out during the apartment clean-up the previous weekend, and there is stuff in that bag that I did not ( Read more... )

While I would have been happier if we'd had a bigger audience for Match Game, the show itself went very well, and we had a good set, and great panelists and crew who made it all work. I think we had between 20 and 30 in the audience overall, but far few put their names in as potential contestants, so that we were able to draw almost every person ( Read more... )