The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
Location: Cambridge, MA
Date Played: December 15, 2022
Team size: we recommend 2-6
Duration: 2.5 hours
Price: around $90 per ticket with VIP tickets for more and standing room tickets for less
Ticketing: Public
Accessibility Consideration: For the full narrative experience, you'll need to go up and down stairs multiple times. And while you don't need to dance, you absolutely should!
Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock
Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints
REA Reaction
We fell in love with Club Drosselmeyer in 1939.
The first time it was 1939, it was also 2016. We were surprised and delighted to find an event that combined puzzles, character interaction, stage acting, cocktails, music, and dancing. We were even more astonished that this fusion worked.
After 3 more years in person, and 2 years remote, 2022 looped us back to a new 1939. Club Drosselmeyer began anew with a fresh venue. There were also new performances, puzzles, scenes, and props. It was the same story, but it wasn't the same show. It had grown up.
Club Drosselmeyer is so impressive in how it manages to be so many things at once to all the different people attending.
It didn't nail every individual component. In particular, the perfomances were less captivating than in years past, partially because the venue was so large and it was easy to miss them. But Club Drosselmeyer delivers spectacle like nobody else, and the way they weave so many diverse elements together is truly alchemy.
We brought our own something special this time: 30 friends. Seriously. We bought seats at adjacent tables and solved our way through the show in groups of 3-6. We shared (or refused to share!) our puzzle solutions. And we delighted in how our friends approached certain challenges. It was incredible to experience this show with our community.
We're planning to bring an even larger group next year. We hope you'll join us. Keep your eye out for the perfect 1939 cocktail dress or suit because you'll need in next December. We'll let you know when details for the next Club Drosselmeyer are available.
Who is this for?
- Puzzle lovers
- Jazz lovers
- Swing dancers
- Immersive theater fans
- People who are fine with crowds
- People who don't need to be part of every interaction
- Any experience level … for puzzlers or dancers
Why play?
- The puzzles... or the characters... or the dancing... really, it's up to you
- To appreciate the dance that is the production
- The spectacle
Story
It was 1939 in Club Drosselmeyer, a world where The Nutcracker has been reimagined as a World War II techno-conspiracy. The Club's owner and brilliant inventor Herr Drosselmeyer needed our help. His old club had burned down, war was brewing overseas, and some nefarious types were looking into his research. There was a rat in Club Drosselmeyer and we needed to find it.
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