A video screen is designed into the set that allows viewing of the accomplishments of the producers that evening. With a hip-cool band and a troupe of five singers this place called Joe's comes alive. The song list tells it all. What better way to assert a groups' refined side than to attend an evening of Grand Opera. C ostumed attendants flank the entrance, opening and closing the doors for the guests at an entrance scene recreated from Verdi's AIDA .
Ushers take guest's tickets and assist in the seating assignments.
As the guests enter the music from Carmen is being played. T he event setting resembles an old Grand Opera Houses of Europe. Guest tables are beautifully clothed and draped and candles are glowing brightly over the room. E xcerpts from famous operas continue between the meal courses. After dessert the program mentions there will be an abridged version of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.