The Haygoods May 7, 2009 review

1st Half
As always they start out singing "Oh What a Night", and then Shawn sang "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher" along with everyone else joining in. After these songs they were all introduced one by one. After everyone was introduced Tim started singing "Chicken Fried", and after this song they all joined in the song of "Seven Bridges Road" and for the last country song they sang "Devil Went Down to Georgia". After this set of songs the Blues Brothers (Michael and Shawn) came out and jumped around and sang "Shout", they were full of energy tonight. After the Blues Brothers came the instrumental songs, which were "Eleanor Rigby" and since Dom wasn't in the show, they didn't do "Bohemian Rhapsody", but instead they played "Amazing Grace". After these two songs came the Irish songs and they did "Irish Washerwoman", "Danny Boy", and Matthew didn't sing his Irish song. After the Irish songs, Aaron sang "Good Love", Shawn sang "Love the one You're With", Patrick sang "Twist and Shout" and Matthew sang Dom's song "I'm a Believer" and he was really good. That is all that happened in the first half of the show.

2nd Half
In the second half they started with the song "Come and Take a Free Ride" and after this they sang "My Girl" in which Shawn took the place of Dom and Michael still played his part. After "My Girl", Michael played "Johnny B. Goode" that was awesome and then after Michael, Patrick played "Great Balls of Fire" and he still had the fire come out of the piano at the end of the song, he is still good at it. After these songs came the love songs of the show. Aaron starts off sitting on the piano and reads his list and after he reads number 2 "Never go to bed angry" he then says "Loves what makes the world go round" which the line really is "who wants to be angry, I don't want to be angry, do you want to be angry Pat", but Aaron messed up the line, it was funny. Aaron then sings his song "1,2,3,4" and after Aaron, Michael then sings his song "When You Say Nothing at All". After the love songs Aaron and Catherine come out and play the sax while Shawn and Tim tap dance. Then all the rest of the guys join in on the tap dancing. After the tap dancing Tim comes out and says "ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Haygoods Weight-Loss Program". After this they all play "Canon in D" which was really good. After "Canon in D" Tim says to the audience "Dominic had to be rushed to the hospital about 4 days ago, he's going to be alright. He's at home recovering right now, and that he thanked the crew and the guys and Cat and that they had 24 hours to make an entire new show, and that they added eight new numbers to the show". After saying this he mentioned that it took 11, 289 shows in 15 years to get their own theatre. For their ending song they sang "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly", and Tim sang Dom's part of this song. The show was really good, but it would be better if Dom was there in the show, but once he recovers he will be back as soon as possible.

After the show
After the show was over my mom and I went to the lobby and I stood in line, and while I was in line I met Cheryl. She told me she was nervous to see the Haygoods and I was with her and she asked me to take pics of her and the Haygoods for her. She had a great time at the show and she hopes to see the show again when she comes into town again. I hope you all like this review, I had to watch the DVD to make sure I didn't miss anything, and yes I did buy tonight's show. Let me know what you all think of this review. I hope to see all of you or most of you at the show this year. Have fun reading.

Liza