The Royale Dumpe

Last night, my mom, Becky and I ventured downtown to meet up with Becky's brother, Ronnie, on The Landing. We found ourselves at a dinner theater called The Royale Dumpe... which I have seen a million times because it is next to my absolute favorite piano bar, The Big Bang, but I never knew what the place was all about.

The first thing we saw when we walked in was a huge metal knight and a man dressed up like he was from the 16th century, accent and all he proceeded to tell me I should go find the tree across the street after I asked him where I could find a restroom. So right away, this place was pretty amusing... I knew we were going to be in for an interesting time. I felt like we were in Spam-a-Lot to be honest with you!

Once we found our way to the 3rd floor there were "winches" and gestures and all sorts of 16th century characters running around. The bar area was really neat and completely decked out with Medieval decor. You can't really tell, but mom and I are sitting on a chair that looks like a thrown. It was beautiful!

Once we were all settled in the theater and the show began, we discovered were in for a night of stand up comedy, signing, skits and some serious razzing of members of the audience. The theater was decorated like an old castle with wrotiron chandeliers and swords all over the walls. The servers were dressed up like 16th century maidens and were part of the whole skit. We cracked up the whole evening... this is definatly not a place for children because the jokes were as crude as they come.

The food wasn't too good; they serve the same thing to everyone, which totally fits the "theme", but isn't a good thing when there are 100 people to serve.... pretty much the food was just plain cold. The exciting entertainment throughout the dinner kept everyone from minding too much, though!

The funniest and maybe most embarassing part of our evening was towards the end of the show when they had to find a virgin in the crowd to save another man from the crowd who they had placed in some gallows.... only a kiss from a true virgin could set him free. Guess who they picked from the crowd to be that "virgin"... ME! They pulled me up on stage and seriously everyone was laughing at me. I guess it is a little unbelievable to be 7 months pregnant and try to pull off the virgin thing! After razzing me for awhile, they made me kiss the guy's cheek that was stuck in the gallows and guess what?.... that's right, nothing happened because I obviously wasn't a virgin!

Even funnier than my big moment on stage was when I was in the bathroom a few minutes later and this girl said to me, " I don't think they knew you were pregnant!". I laughed to myself and said, "Yeah.... I'm pretty sure they did because that is what was so funny about it." She commented back with, "Really? How do you think they knew?" First of all, not only is it extremely visible, but DUH! I didn't say that to her, but this girl made me crack up even more than I already was. I just told her that they had recognized me before the show and knew they were going to use me for that part.... I still don't think she got it. ha ha.

All in all it was a very intersting night. The Royale Dumpe is definatly a place to at least check out once. Don't plan on good dinner, but the entertainment is worth the experience!

I guess last night counts as Emmerson's first stage appearance... maybe we have a little actress on our hands!