THE SIMPSONS at the Hollywood Bowl: Photos

September 14, 2014 by Marisa Roffman

THE SIMPSONS took over the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and when I had the chance to go to the show on Friday night, the experience was pretty magical.

As you might expect, the performances were incredible (my favorite numbers included the first public performance of “Happy Birthday, Lisa” by Kipp Lennon and SIMPSONS star Nancy Cartwright (Bart); Cartwright and fellow SIMPSONS star Yeardley Smith (Lisa) singing “Minimum Wage Nanny”; the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles’ medley (which included “Spider-Pig” and “Stonecutters Song”; and Hank Azaria’s (Apu) “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?”), but what was almost equally impressive was how much care was put into making the entire Hollywood Bowl SIMPSONS-friendly.

Not only were the ushers wearing Sideshow Bob hair (it was fabulously weird), and many of the women in the orchestra had on Marge wigs, but there was a SIMPSONS mural painted on one of the walls, there were cardboard cutouts of characters all over the Bowl (many with sayings appropriate for the weekend’s festivities), Duff “beer” was at the concession stand windows, and more. The attention to detail — and making the experience truly something fans would appreciate — was incredibly impressive.

I’m sure I missed a few of nerdy touches, but I took some photos of the things around the Bowl that stood out the most to me…