Last night the St. George Road Runners (our Golden League Baseball Team) played their first game. After the game, they had a firework show which we got to watch from our bedroom window. But the real question in my mind after last night is this: who came up with the unwritten rule that all fireworks shows have to end with a Grand Finale? For some reason, we all think that the fireworks can't be done until we've seen the Grand Finale. Who started this?
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Were you able to hear any music? Did they play any Neil Diamond? Sousa?
I was hoping for "The Final Countdown". But no, no music that we heard.
So, was this your grand finale?
Seriously, Clark, you died.
I think it just makes sense to have a grand finale so that there isn't any doubt as to when the show is over. You can't roll credits or turn on the house lights, and there's usually not any other way for the people putting on the show to communicate with the audience except through the fireworks themselves.
Artistically, there is ample precedent for the grand finale in music and drama, which is why the device has a name in the first place, and is not referred to as "that part at the end of the fireworks show where they do a whole bunch of fireworks all at once, and then it's over, you know what part I'm talking about."
Obviously some people have had way too much time to think about this post. Time for something new, Clark!
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