So I was able to experience Blood Banquet for the first time this season on Sunday Night, and thought I'd share my thoughts for people who are wondering whether or not they should pay the money to experience it themselves.
Food:
The food was more or less the same as past years, a couple of additions this year, however. For the entrees a lot of German fare, chili, a carving station, baked potatoes, the weirdest version of chicken parmesan that I've ever seen, and pasta. The carving station had two meats, pork loin and beef that I found particularly enjoyable, probably the best entree options, the chicken parm was made more "buffet-servable," so it's basically chicken tenders with sauce and cheese on top. It wasn't really bad, just presented in an undesirable way. The German food(or what I tasted of it) was all decent. I stayed away from the chili not because it was bad, but because I loathe chili, but it didn't look that revolting, so I think it should be okay.
The real highlight of the menu was the desserts. I didn't taste one that I didn't like. The selection was a "blood spatter cake" which is basically vanilla with what I believe is cherry filling sporadically in the cake. They returned one of my favorites from 2013 that they took away in 2014, the red velvet cupcake. In addition to this, they had the chocolate custard that they've had since Blood Banquet opened, and a cherry cobbler. The cherry cobbler, Blood spatter cake, and red velvet cupcakes are all must tries.
Out of the entire selection, I'm sure everyone will be able to find a couple items they enjoy in both the desserts and entrees.
Show:
To put it simply, this show is last year's Igor's Fright Feast, with vampires instead of nurses. Same music, except one song now has different lyrics, but same tune as in Fright Feast last year.
For those of you that didn't see Fright Feast last year, I'll give you a basic synopsis. Igor is running Vampire Point Hotel now, he'll explain to you how he got it from Count Vladtastic in the show. He has his three employee vampires, a maid, a bellhop and an athletic trainer(?). The athletic trainer was odd, but she was a great actor and sang "Let's get Physical" so I guess it fits well. Igor's best friend Swampy comes to visit, they crack some jokes, another musical number, more jokes and the finale "We are Family."
Because this is basically last year's Fright Feast, the show was amazing. Igor was, as usual, amazing, Swampy(I believe was the same guy as last year, when we talked to him post-show he seemed to know what he was talking about) was really good, and the three vampire employees were great actors, and really good at portraying their character.
My only complaint is that they use the damn fountain as the stage, it makes it hard to see/hear/tell what the performers are doing on the opposite side of you. Sitting closer to the stage will help this problem.
Final Thoughts/Summary:
Would I recommend this experience? Definitely! In fact, much more than I would have recommended it last year when Igor wasn't here. In my opinion, it's worth doing at least once.
