About 100 Seattleites, likely sick of dating apps, have applied for a chance to meet their next partner in a less conventional way: in person and onstage. On July 11, one bachelorette and four bachelors will sit in front of a live audience at Queen Anne’s SIFF Cinema Uptown for the Los Angeles-based dating comedy show “Love Isn’t Blind.” As the night unfolds, the bachelors will take on a series of questions and challenges before the bachelorette decides with whom she’ll go on a first date.
The show’s name riffs off the popular reality TV show “Love Is Blind,” in which singles initially connect through a wall without seeing each other. But the live comedy experience has a different type of “little caveat,” as host Allison Goldberg puts it: The men onstage aren’t allowed to speak. They can, however, answer yes-or-no questions (Do you know your attachment style? Do you have a Costco membership? Have you ever had a threesome?) and sit by while Goldberg goes through their phones and calls their moms, among other mostly silent activities.
Those in the audience aren’t forgotten, either. Goldberg, a comedian and the show’s creator, launched “Love Isn’t Blind” in 2022 to help everyone attending — onstage or watching — meet new people, romantically or platonically. Showgoers get color-coded wristbands indicating their relationship status and sexual orientation upon arriving and switch seats in games of musical chairs, nudging them to meet each other.
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