Cameo Theatre

The Cameo is what it is: a quaint, small theater with a rotating schedule of performances. I’ve been to about 15 shows over the past 2 years and if you get the Groupon offers, you’re in for a great night out for a low price.
Some shows you HAVE to catch there: Rocky Horror, Avenue Q (if it returns) and Sweeney Todd.

We saw «Country Is» this last weekend and were highly impressed with the production. The singers were highly professional, as well as the band. A must see for country music fans. 5 stars !

We got groupon tickets to see Mary Poppins, which is one of my favorite movies so I was very excited!
We got there and it seemed a lot smaller than what I expected and it did have a peculiar smell to it like other Unilocalers mentioned, but most theaters do I think.
They have soda, water, candy and microwavable popcorn. It was all reasonably priced which is a plus!
The show started right on time and the sound and light was spot on in my opinion, but the signing sometimes was extremely loud.
I just did not enjoy the show as much as I hoped… the story line was changed which I can understand but I also thought it was all over the place. And the casting was off in my opinion except for Mary Poppins, which was spot on and her voice was great too.

High spirited musical Mary Poppins performed with intense enthusiasm. This production was well cast, actors playing the roles of Mary, Bert, George Banks and the rest were technically proficient. The stage direction and props were also nicely done.
For the price it is a steal of a show to view. The seating was a bit rough on the behind. Children danced in the aisles to the songs and the performers exited out into the theater and livened up the audience.
A very enjoyable time!

Only gave it one star because I wasn’t allowed to give it no stars– they must use cat litter air fresheners up in here. Gross. Not worth smelling the air no matter what show you’re watching.

I can’t believe not one person has mentioned a word about this theater itself, which was built in 1940. When you walk into this building you can just feel the nostalgia of it.
Louis Armstrong, B.B. King and Fats Domino are some of the performers who once played here. I don’t know if the wood floors are original but I wondered and I would be interested to know more about the history of this place.
We really enjoyed the show we saw here. It was a comedy called The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical. The energy of the performers, the band and even the audience was very positive. The performers were funny, all of them quite entertaining, and the show really was very enjoyable.
Based on this experience I certainly would be willing to come back to see other shows. It’s money well spent, supporting local artists. I enjoyed spending my afternoon here. And I’m glad to see this historic building still being kept in use, 75 years later.

Saw Sweeny Todd here recently. It’s pretty much what you would expect from a local theatre. There were some sound issues and the chairs are super uncomfortable but other than that it was a fairly enjoyable show. It’s a quaint part of downtown and Alibis is little hole in the wall gem of a bar. Despite this I did pay about $ 50.00 for tickets so I did expect a little more. However for it being local theatre in a city that is not blossoming with theatre the way others do, I would come again.

Went to see Ricky horror picture show and was extremely disappointed! The sound and acoustics were horrible and the show was raunchy. See it elsewhere.

I suspect the experience varies by show, but my boyfriend and I went to see Avenue Q last night and it was both hilarious and an incredible performance. The theater itself is small and quaint, but the size helps really draw the audience in. We were able to get 4^th row seats and it was immersive being so close to the performers.
I can’t say enough good things about this show or the experience I had at Cameo Theatre. I would go back in a heartbeat, and will absolutely look for more opportunities to frequent this theater.

As a former musician, I’d really, REALLY like to give a good review to a small theater trying to make a go of it. But at the end of the day, you have to rate the quality of the product and not the good intentions or desires of the performers.
Out of the three things I’ve seen here, only one was worthwhile: High Hair and Jalapenos. The other two were so bad, my wife and I walked out at intermission for both. The acting was embarrassingly amateurish and the singing rang the gamut from good to what-​the-​hell-​are-​they-​doing-​on-​stage bad. For some reason, the male performers in the shows we’ve seen have been pretty good, but the women have been a wildly mixed bag. The young woman in their Gershwin review – Fascinating Rhythm – was so bad that I had almost a visceral angry reaction at having the great Gershwin music ruined. The female performers in the Mae West show, Dirty Blonde, fell so short of conveying West’s sensuality and magnetism that the cartoonish performance was darn near unwatchable. We were far from the only people to desert the theater during these two shows.
During the last show we saw, they didn’t even have sufficient staff for the bar. Patrons had to leave the theater to get a drink at the dive bar next door.
It isn’t cheap to see a show here, and they really ought to work harder to give the shows more polish and find some performers worth the $ 29 a ticket they charge. I’d feel bad about giving a small theater a poor rating, but I honestly feel as if I should’ve asked for my money back for two of the three shows.
Wait until High Hair and Jalapenos, an annual show, returns here and enjoy the classic, old-​fashioned vaudeville feel of the performance. Perhaps lightning strikes and other presentations are worth seeing, but based on my experience I wouldn’t chance it again.

We received free tickets to see «Married Alive» a musical comedy on the ups and downs of marriage. The theater is small and simple, but you aren’t coming here for the frills, I don’t think. I love small playhouses and usually can sit through something not all that great, but this show was sad to say, one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Acting was bad, and singing was worse. The show itself was not written well enough to carry the bad acting and singing, and left me glancing over at my date feeling terrible that I asked to see this. We left at intermission like most other people. They really need a bar to help liven up the audience and help lower expectations for the show if this is the usual quality. I hate to say it, but I just might have stayed had I had a few glasses of wine. I’ve read other reviews and it sounded like at one point there was a bar, but now you can only go to the bar next to it during intermission. I might come back, but only if I were given free tickets again, honestly. I can’t believe people paid $ 33.