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This is a long but important one. Our friend group had all been here before, and had positive experiences, so when our friend mentioned wanting to go for her birthday, we were all excited. We booked one of Sabin's shows, and sadly didn't realize it would ruin our birthday girl's night.
It was clear from the start that this drag queen's schtick was to be mean. That's fine, we could handle it and expected that. We are not easily offended. Sabin started to call out one member of our table for being "so F*ing loud" and "so f*cking annoying" and mentioned hating our friend many, many times throughout the show. We thought it was part of the comedy routine.
We were interacting and involved in the show, laughing and engaged. However, as the show was closing things became less funny, and more cruel.
Sabin: (directed toward one friend) "SHUT UP! You are really so f*cking annoying. I am not even kidding I want to head butt you right now." (mind you this is happening in front of everyone) .. continues on and says,
"You have been so disrespectful this entire show and have ruined the show for everyone else around you, you act like you're the only person in the room that matters. I hope you get hit by traffic."
I looked shocked, as this suddenly started to feel less comedic "mean" and more just outright cruel. That's when Sabin noticed my face and said,
"That's right I am calling you guys out in front of everyone because you have been so rude this entire show, dont act upset now that you got called out."
We were truly all dumbfounded. The entire time we had been laughing, engaged, and playing along with all the jokes. Our waiter never once told us, hey can you guys quiet down or anything along the sort. No worker told us, "hey guys, we know youre having fun but can you quiet down?" All we thought was that Sabin was joking with us.
We left the show feeling really sad, and embarrassed. Not to mention extremely confused about how things went from being fun, to incredibly rude.
You would think this would be the end of it but no!
We went next door to Pronto's bar, and went to order drinks. This is when we were told by a very rude bartender that we were cut off. Mind you, some of us were completely sober and some of us only had a few drinks and were by no means intoxicated to the point of needing to be cut off. I was one of the sober ones. When my friend questioned this and tried to explain the situation and requested to speak to a manager, the bartender became irate and said she was acting like a "toddler" because she wasn't getting her way.
I have never in my life felt so disrespected for seemingly no reason, and the management felt to be like mean teenage girl mentality. It really felt like for some reason they took a dislike to us, and instead of telling us politely to quiet down or settle down a bit, they wanted to prove a point or something.
We will never be giving our business to Pronto again, and you can bet that we will be telling everyone we know not to support the drag queen bingo as it truly did ruin the night and not even management tried to help us understand or smooth things over. I would never support this business again.
I truly wish they would have handled things differently, and I think the night could have been salvaged but instead they chose to be incredibly unprofessional and mean-spirited to a girl who was just trying to celebrate her birthday.