FRIDAY BLOG: How’s about waiters singing opera?
Mar 01, 2013 | 730 views | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print
BILLY JOEL STARTED OUT as a piano bar player but one assumes it is too much to expect him to drop in at 333 on Broad to join in Rome’s latest downtown entertainment experiment.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out, particularly since the format on display every Saturday (three-hour show starting at 9 p.m.) is a new one to Rome’s growing scene of varied live entertainment and of the “dueling pianos” format. Two baby grands, two pianists, double the joking around and audience participation?

The best thing about this is to see experimentation — trying new things — being attempted to liven up the local scene. Jay Shell, the 333 operator (and of the Brewhouse as well) has been particularly venturesome in this regard.

It is interesting to consider what other business owners along Broad Street might next attempt to drum up crowds. There’s already a growing variety, but there is plenty of room for more — folk, blues, jazz, waiters who sing opera, strolling violinists? Man and woman does not live by karaoke and trivia alone.

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KFT
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March 04, 2013
Interestingly enough, my husband (Hugh Tyner) who is one of the dueling piano artists, is also a Billy Joel tribute artist (Almost Billy Joel, like us on Facebook). After spending most of his adult life on the West Coast (LA, Las Vegas) as a musician, Hugh has been thrilled to see Rome's response to the Dueling Piano concept. Members of the Jam Boyz group (like them on Facebook, as well) play not only in Rome, but in dueling pianos shows across the Southeast. However, don't come expecting to see "two baby grands", yet...but, maybe we'll see that eventually! DO try out the Dueling Pianos show at 333 on Broad...lots of great music, great food, and lots of fun!
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