#finley at the sonic symphony! 🦔💙

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*slams door open* GUYS!!!!

I FOUND A FULL VIDEO OF ACT 2 OF YESTERDAY'S SONIC SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE!!!! I CAN RELIVE IT!!! 🦔💙🦔💙🦔💙🦔💙🦔💙

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The first act of the Symphony just ended and HOLY SHIT-

According to the conductor, we're the rowdiest crowd yet!

Btw our conductor was incredible!!!

The crowd cheered whenever one of Tails' big moments (like him facing Eggman after Sonic is sent hurtling towards Earth in SA2) happened in the Sonic & Tails Medley. Love the Tails love!!! 🦊💛

A guy loudly said "YEAHHH" when they played the "no copyright law in the universe is gonna stop me" clip during the Sonic Colors piece.

Clap-along during Studio-opolis Zone in the Mania Medley

The cheers were deafening after Tails threw a guy during the It Doesn't Matter transition/intro (yeah, you're reading that right. Tails THREW A GUY.)

The conductor has been playing Sonic since the beginning of the franchise

Cheers during That Part™ of I'm Here in the Frontiers Medley

They straight up played Smart Race from Deltarune at the start of intermission-

The crowd has been so fun and it feels like everyone shares a mind link XD

Can't wait for Act 2! A little nervous tho because I don't think my "dad" knows about the rock portion of the Symphony-

Almost everyone is dressed in some kind of Sonic merch which makes me feel underdressed XD

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Ok...after several hours..here is (FINALLY) everything that happened in Act 2! :D

Cheers when there were 59 seconds left

Played the drowning theme when there were 10 seconds left

We were told to take out our phones during the I Am All of Me intro

Immediately everyone started cheering when I Am All of Me started

Someone screamed when they showed Maria during IAAOM

I've never heard What I'm Made Of before so I had to mumble along the words XD

Someone kept barking like a dog (going "hoo hoo hoo!"). Can't help but feel that's a reference to Snapcube ("That's so sick it makes me wanna bark like a dog!")

Everyone started screaming at the intro to Open Your Heart

The guitarist didn't do the riff during the instrumental break in Open Your Heart :(

Everyone screamed the second Knight of the Wind started

The audience sang the "woahs" at the start of KOTW

Everyone cheered when Sonic's Knight transformation was onscreen

Audience waved during the second "woah" bit

Johnny did a sword slash at the end of KOTW

Clap along at the start of His World

People cheered when Silver and Blaze showed up oncreen

I think someone screamed when Mephiles showed up

The cheers were deafening when Fist Bump started-

Cheers when Ian Jr showed up

Ian Jr showed up more than Gadget during Fist Bump!

Johnny straight up yelled "We fucking love you!!!"

Johnny fist bumped an audience member

Audience members in the front were jumping at the end of Fist Bump

Johnny asked "Do you wanna..." And the audience started finishing with multiple different songs names or quotes. My guess was "follow me" to lead into City Escape. The correct answer was Reach for The Stars

Wave-along during RftS

Everyone started waving around their flashlights during the end of RtFS

Sing along during Endless Possibilities

Johnny hit an E note at the end of EP

Johnny asked us to get angry for Break Through It All!

Got goosebumps when everyone screamed "you'll wake the beast inside!" and "Don't look down!"

The last chord of BTIA was discordant and dissonant but so cool!!

We're the loudest crowd yet, according to the guitarist-

It was someone's birthday so we all have them a birthday clap! 🎂🎁

Because it's Halloween they performed Pumpkin Hill! 🎃

Everyone started screaming at the start of Pumpkin Hill

Johnny said he wasn't comimg out until everyone stood up for Undefeatable

When everyone screamed "Face your fear" I realized just how much screaming is in the Sonic Frontiers soundtrack-

We totally broke the sound barrier at the end of Undefeatable. The crowd was cheering so loud!!

They were supposed to do the fakeout ending like in the 30th anniversary version, but because we were such a good audience they didn't do it

Everyone screamed the "woo!" during City Escape

Johnny went out into the audience for City Escape

I swear we broke the sound barrier during Live and Learn

I was convinced L&L would never end because Johnny kept shouting people out onstage! :)

Johnny said he wished tonight would never end and he got teared up earlier in the performance.

They played Green Hill as exit music while the credits rolled, and i heard some audience members singing to it.

While I am sad some of my favorite orchestral medleys got cut, like the Sega Saturn Medley, the Sonic 06 Medley, and the Sonic Colors Medley, I do realize that they clearly wanted to focus more on the rock section, what with the songs added. Overall I had an absolute blast and I hope a full video surfaces or I can find my audio of act 2!! So excited if/when it returns to Chicago!! 🦔💙

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Video I took of the Sonic Symphony!!! This was during Reach for the Stars! 🦔💙🦔💙🦔💙

My phone was dying of strorage issues (hence me taking an audio instead of a video), but this was so magical I just had to record it.

Also: the more in depth talk about act 2 is coming soon!!! Keep your eyes peeled! :) 🦔💙

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I'm gonna be so annoying about Sonic in the coming days you guysss

Watch out- /j

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They're playing Alphys from Undertale rn-

..I mean, I don't mind bc I love Undertale's soundtrack, but like, ..this is the Sonic Symphony? XD

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They just played the drowning theme and everyone cheered XD 🦔💙

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*stretches my arms out and gives everyone here on Tumblr that went to the same Sonic Symphony performance as me a massive hug.* We're friends now.

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Does that--

DOES THAT MEAN IT'S COMING BACK TO CHICAGO?? IF NOT THIS YEAR, THEN IN 2024??

I HOPE I CAN GO AGAIN IF IT DOES COME BACK!!! 😁😁😁🦔🦔💙💙

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Bad news: I think I lost the audio I recorded of the second section. :(

Good news: HOOOLY SHIT /POS

Will go more in-depth later, I need a minute to calm down xdjkfjklg

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You’re at the Sonic Symphony??? :00

I’m gonna see that in like, January!!!!!

Hope you have/had fun, Finley! ^^

HAD THE TIME OF LIFE, MILES!!! 😁😁😁🦔🦔💙💙💙

You're gonna have a blast, I promise!!!