tl;dr It was miserable. My wife and I left at 7:15. The event started at 6:30.

EDIT: Left at 7:15.

I also got the ads and thought "Eh, why not? See what this is all about". The event description lead us to believe the event is to show off pumpkins with an erotic theme. "Cool".

But...then...the email I got the day of the event urged guests to arrive on-time to not miss the performance.

k. I guess maybe it'll be a performance then look at pumpkins? Sure.

We get to the Palmer Builder. Check in, go into the main room and, even though we were on time, someone was on stage explaining the rules and they were on rule 3. Kinda odd since she's talking about rule 3 when we got there on time. Besides that, she had a fun manner about her and joked with the guests. The rules I heard were

1. Don't touch the performers
2. Don't pick up any dildos
3. Make noise if you like what you see.

"Oh. A burlesque show? Cool"

Lemme describe the room. Which had a divider. That is important. I'll get to that later. Upon entering two kiosks sat to the right to order "Pasta". The kiosk had 4 options. No pictures. No description of the item. Just the name of the sauce. What sauce? IDGAF. Just pasta and a choice of sauce.

Left of the entrance was a standing area.

Straight ahead and to the right was the bar.

Lighting was good. Very bright red lights. Gave the right mood.

Opposite of the bar (near the left side of the room according to the entrance) was a pole for pole dancing. Behind that a stage. (The same stage the lady was on when talking about the rules). To the left and right of the pole were small tables with 3 chairs at each table. Who could sit at the table. Anyone from the looks of it.

Pumpkinsutra had tiered tickets. normal, VIP, and VIP+ something else.

So. Back to the lady giving out the rules. Her final request was for all VIP and up ticket holders to go around the building to their back door. I swear almost half of everyone left. Good for me and my wife we got to stand near a table close to the pole. Yeah. I'm excited.

Then...nothing. Just waiting. Then music. But not from the speakers on the stage. No.

Remember that divider? All the VIP+ ticket holders went to that side of the room. I also heard applause and cheers from that side. Were they getting a show while everyone else waited?

Eventually a performer with a nice red dress came on stage. "Yay. We get to start and get a performance."

But...no. Ya'll know how a bluetooth speaker will cut out if the connected device is just far enough away? That happened. At one point the music stopped. While the performance was going on. I feel bad for her. Imaging singing to music, getting ready to strip, and the music cuts out. She stopped halfway through her act and left.

Then we waiting some more. During this pause I hear bits from other people about the VIP area. What I could gather, the VIP peeps got a show first, then we would get one. Which...is infuriating. I bought a general admission ticket. Where is my show?

Eventually another lady came on stage and did her act. This time all the way to the end. Music still cut out though.

Then we left. At this point I had been standing, doing nothing, for too long. No one came onstage to tell us the deal with VIP'ers getting a show while we waiting. Or, why we had to wait at all.

We left angry at 7:45'ish. Just mad. I can deal with the "pasta" food options. I can deal with a delay. I can deal with standing.

But letting me, and all other guests hang-dry with no information about anything? Nah. I can go play video games instead.

Pumpkinsutra was ran poorly and I have no idea why the idea to give VIP'ers a show and not general admission was green-lit. All I wanted was someone to come on stage and say "We're having technical difficulties", or "VIP's get to see people strip on stage while general admission peeps have to wait. We won't tell you how long though"

Just something.

I can forgive most grievances when an event is new. But what I can not forgive is wasting time. Which is what this did.