Forever Tango

I loved the show. I loved the music. I would go to see it again anytime!

A so-​so exhibition of show tango, nothing more.
Tango is an intimate, sexy dance, not one to be performed 100 feet away on a raised stage severely displaced from the audience. While I am not a tango fashionista by any means, even show tango in Buenos Aires is more intimate than this.
Cheryl Burke is one of the Bay Area’s best, but even her prowess cannot overcome the terrible acoustics and distance between the audience and the stage. The orchestra sounds like they have a tea-​cozy over them: the highs of the bandonio and violin are masked, and everything else in muddied.
Save yourself the price of admission, buy an album like «Tango 3.0» from Gotan Project or «Dos» from Otros Aires, and just imagine the dancing. Even if your imagination is not that great, you’ll be much better off.

NEW ADDRESS FOR SHOW:
Marine’s Memorial Theatre (2^nd floor)
609 Sutter St.
S.F., CA 94 102
Bom bom… b b bom. the beats of the tango from last Sat night’s 8pm performance are still echoing in my head.
It was a great show!
Cheryl Burke, from Dancing With the Stars, is performing with this tour. Although she was a HUGE selling point in all the promotions for this show she was suprisingly not the focus or even a main act.
The dancing was great but the music…(sigh) was fantastic. The live orchestra comprised of a string quartet, pianist, bandoneonist (sort of like an accordian).MADE the show. I would have paid just to see them in concert. The violinst, in particular, played so beautifully and with such raw emotion… I will never forget it.
The show is sexy, fast-​paced, and intimate. The MM Theatre was perfect to showcase this type of art and the fact that it wasn’t a large and spacious venue enriched the performance.
My apologies to the pedestrians who we bumped into, on Post, while doing the tango on our way to our car… b b BOM!

If you like Dancing with the Stars then you will like this. I hate Dancing with the stars but I did love the music. The music really made it for me. Even though there is no story line the musical performances and the mini story of each dance made up for it.
The stage seemed a bit cramped for the dancers and the band. I wonder if this affected the dance routines. I would certainly recommend this for an older crowd.

Maybe it’s because I had high expectations, but the show was not as amazing as I thought it would be. Also, I am the kind of person who cannot enjoy just the music or just the dance… there needs to be a storyline for me to sit for two hours. Sure, each tango number had some kind of theme, but they did not tie together. I think that most of the people who went with me were baffled for at least the first 3 or 4 numbers, their minds futilely trying to connect them all.
I enjoyed The Mambo Kings far more. It had all of the music and dance, AND there was a solid storyline. But then again as a salsa dancer I am biased.

I got to see the show FREE because I volunteered usher, so I «worked» to see the show.
The show is lots of tango dancing, some guy singing in Spanish (which I didn’t understand at all), and the orchestra playing live in front of you.
There is one 15 minute intermission where you have to make a quick dash during the group dance to get a stall in the women’s bathroom which is up a flight of stairs.
The show is only 2hrs long, so is it worth $ 100 for orchestra seats? Up to you, but it was worth my time ushering to see the show FREE.
I enjoyed my seat in the orchestra probably Row S, Seat 101 so I could see clear, no seat in front of me, plus you can see the dancers’ feet way in the back rows. Worse seats probably anything in Row A Orchestra.
Only playing until Jan 21, 2007.
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I always enjoy a good tango show and, like many of the other touring shows which I’ve seen, I really had a great time at Forever Tango. However, this performance was so different from others which I have seen and, for that, I enjoyed it on so many other levels. For example. unlike many, Forever Tango put the orchestra right on stage with the dancers so that the audience can appreciate visually the complexities of the performance of the music. performed without dance at all, but rather with extended solos of bandoneon, double bass, cello and piano, all of which are sexy and smooth. Another treat are the vocal numbers, all sung with typical tango bravado. Rather than taking itself too seriously, the tango dance routines range from proud to funny to sleazy/​slutty to amorous, showing a tip of the hat to the brothel culture in which the tango originated.
All in all, this is a great show. As it will be in the city for only a couple of weeks more, please try to take advantage of it.