Shen Yun Show 2018-2019 Review

We went to see the Shen Yen art performance show on February 27 !

We missed it last season's tour because it was already sold out when we found the information about the show.

So this season we bought the tickets earlier around November because I didn’t want to miss it this time.

We bought the tickets online at the She Yun show's website and selected to send the tickets to our address rather than getting them in the theater.

Getting the tickets

There was a problem receiving our tickets.

We placed the order for the tickets on November 17.

However we did not receive it after more than one month past.
and they said if you did not receive your ticket within 10 days, please contact us.

So we contacted them by email and also by phone.

At that time we did not get the response from them.

So we called them and talked with the ticket worker of Shen Yen show, and he told us they are not sure they have shipped it or not so told us to wait 10 more days and if we still did not receive the tickets, you can call them back.

So we waited 10 more days, but we didn’t get the tickets even after more than 2 weeks past.

We called them back again, and they said their manager will contact us.

and their manager sent us an email and told us they will ship the tickets soon. He also wrote to us that alternatively, leaving the tickets at " will call " can be a secure and cost saving choice.

But we preferred to get the ticket in our hands when we go to the show to make sure we have the tickets so we told him to ship them , making sure our address is correct. It was about December 22.

and we still had not received our tickets on January 9, so we wrote to the manager again when our tickets were shipped.

There was no tracking number for the mail because of first class mail, so we told them if we were unable to get the ticket by January 15, we think there is some issue with the mailing system that they’re using.

And we told them we will request the “ Will Call “ service.

and then the manager asked us to try it more chance and they will ship it from Gilbert with tracking. and they will send us the tracking number very soon.

and finally we received it on January 14.

I still don't know why it was so difficult to receive the tickets ?
But we are happy to get them.

and the manager was giving us the tracking number for the mail and sending us some emails to make sure we received the tickets.

So overall their customer service was good.

Parking lot

And in that day on February 27 , the show started from 2 pm, so we left home around 1:15pm.

I was a little late since we wanted to leave home around 1 pm because the parking lot may be busy.

It was Wednesday , but the road was busy, I dont know why?
but we arrived around 1:35pm in the parking lot.

However, some cars in front of our cars were turning around and leaving the entrance of the parking lot, because there was a sign which shows

" Parking lot is closed " !!!''

But one of the cars in front of our car kept going through the narrow road to the entrance gate of the parking lot where there was a parking lot's worker.

and then we saw that the worker was letting the car to get to into the parking lot.

So we also did the same thing, got to the entrance gate and asking to the worker if we can park there.

and the worker told us they have a few available and it's $10.

and they let us to get into the parking lot after made the payment.

There were several parking places were still available.

and we felt we were lucky to get the parking place .

Theater ( Tucson Music Hall )

It was okay theater, not so luxury but not too bad.

Our seats were T 38, 39. I think it was pretty good seats to see the performance.

The seats were small and the seat stand was not high enough and a person in front of my seat was a little bit blocking to see the stage performance sometimes.

Performance

It was fabulous !!!

We both really love the performance a lot.

All of their movements were very detailed and artistic and graceful from toes to fingertips. Very gorgeous !

The choreography and color coordination were great as well.

It was really interesting that the screen and reality seemed to blend together and it was really well made that they made it looked like performers were coming in and out from the screen.

I think they are all really veteran professional classical dancers.

Before going to the show, my husband had read many negative reviews about the show especially from 2018 season's , so he was little bit worried about it.

But our impressions were often different from bulk of people's views and impressions , so I was not really care for it.

and after seeing the performance, we both really enjoyed with it because it was really awesome.

Especially performers who were dancing with vases on their heads were just incredible.

Also the virtuoso performance on a Chinese Erhu stringed instrument was amazing. Really impressive.

Pianist was great,too.

Only things,

Opera singer was not so impressive. To be honest, I didn't think she is a good opera singer. Her singing didn't make me feel good at all.

My husband said he felt the same.

and also the solo singer , he was not bad, and I think good singer but not awesome. I was not so crazy for his singing voice.

Many of the audience looked older than us and did not see much younger people.

It was Wednesday's afternoon show, maybe that's why ?

We loved many parts of the performances but our favorite performers are a lady who was acting as a queen with a yellow costume.

but all the performers who were in the front at the end were brilliant as well.

and I would give 4 stars for overall.

We are very grateful to be able to see such a wonderful beautiful art performance !

Thank you so much !

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