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"Not Sure What It Wants To Be"

SHOW REVIEW: 'The Soprano's Last Supper'
Mike Weatherford, Las Vegas Review-Journal

"The Soprano's Last Supper" tried to ride the show's popularity with a spoofy twist of the interactive, "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding" variety. It opened two years ago but found it hard to assert itself in two obscure venues, Krave nightclub and the Empire Ballroom.

The spoof finally landed more on the beaten path in February, shoe-horned into the comedy club as an early-evening attraction.
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"The Soprano's" (the strategic comma is part of a legal truce with HBO) isn't sure what it wants to be. It starts out more like a play, but devolves over the next 90 minutes.

Losing the natural order of a dinner show -- dinner is now an add-on option in a separate restaurant -- creates a conflicting agenda. Attempts to sustain the "Sopranos" parody are undermined by frequent song and dance breaks, the characters pulling up audience members to shake it with a live trio and preserve the interactive element.

The scripted portions have become tighter and more to a purpose since the Krave days, but the room's poor acoustics and primitive public-address system result in many a punch line getting lost or trampled. And the character spoofs lapse into "dese" and "dose" gangster cliches of the Mugsy and Bugsy variety. It's like spoofing "Lost" with "Gilligan's Island" jokes."

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