Mythbusters: Behind the Myths tour

As a Christmas present to Mr. Waterbaby, I bought three tickets to see this show. One for the hubby, myself and our very best friend. At first when I gave him the tickets, he wasn't sure what it was going to be all about. He had of course seen the shows and enjoyed predicting which myths would come true and which would end up debunked but neither of us were sure what Adam and Jaimie were going to do onstage. Last Monday we found out...turns out everything but let a cannonball loose!

We started out with dinner at one of our favorite places: Pronto's. It's this little American/Italian fusion bistro in Midtown, not far from the theater. Mr. WB had a scrumptious polenta bowl, his buddy had a comforting meatloaf meal and I had my very favorite baked ziti with sausage. It was so creamy and delicious! If you haven't been to this restaurant, you must!

As we walked into the theater, after dinner, we met up with a coworker of mine who has connections to the theater. (She's how we got such great seats!) She and her husband are big fans of the show and we all were anticipating the start!

As we sat down the big screen on stage started showing a video, sort of a Behind the Scenes of their Creative space. We saw their workspaces and their brainstorming offices as well as their camera/editing rooms that housed their Wall of shame: a collection of old video cameras that have been put out commission due to various methods, ie. drowning, being blown up, falling from great heights...y'know the usual!)

They also did various experiment such as demonstrating weight distribution with interlaced everyday phone books. Did you know, when overlapped correctly, two ordinary phone books can hold up the weight of a car! They showcasing physics by having different sized people wield different sized hammers on a High Striker, and they also showed off the magic of High speed cameras. After calling up a few members of the audience, they filmed them making funny faces and then slowed the resulting video way down for our enjoyment. It was really funny, and highly enjoyable!

The show ended with a last trick, it involved a converted Anti-aircraft gun, paintballs and a suit of armor. Intrigued? We were too! They basically picked an audience member suited them up in one of Adam's favorite suits of armor and shot an Anti-aircraft guns ammo box full of paintballs at the poor guy! Don't worry, he was just fine and so was the armor! It was an awesome show! Mr. WB said it was a surprise he enjoyed immensely. We can't wait for our next adventure! Here are some more gratuitous photos: