- "Vanderpump Rules" star Tom Sandoval's band played in Long Island to a mostly empty room.
- One attendee shared a recap of the evening, from Sandoval's bongos to his sneaker change.
Tracie Egan Morrissey attended a Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras show so you don't have to.
Morrissey, a producer and podcast host, trekked to Westbury, Long Island, from her Brooklyn home to see the disgraced "Vanderpump Rules" star and his band on Thursday night at the 800-seat Westbury Theater. According to Morrissey, who documented the evening on TikTok, less than 200 hundred people attended the event. The night was so poorly attended that the venue offered a last-minute 2-for-1 deal on tickets.
@traciemorrissey Tom Sandoval and the Most Extras on Long Island #fyp #scandoval ♬ original sound - Tracie
"It definitely seemed like there were less people there than were at my wedding," Morrissey said.
While some men enact their mid-life crises by buying sports cars or divorcing their wives, Tom Sandoval took things a step further; he conducted a several-months-long affair with his girlfriend's best friend — dubbed "Scandoval" – and decided to go on tour as the leader of a 10-piece cover band.
Sandoval, who is part-owner of two LA bars and has complained all season long of being overleveraged, is apparently personally paying this band to both tour and practice with him. He also sprung for bongos, a light-up suit, a whole lighting rig, and a fog machine that spits out bubbles filled with fog.
With all that, you'd think the actual sound would be beside the point, but Morrissey said the band sounded pretty good — at least while she was watching it live.
"When we were there in person, I thought, 'Wow he's really good, he has a good voice,'" she said. "He chose extremely vocally challenging songs, the kind of songs where there are falsettos. Then I went home and watched some of it, and..." Her voice trails off into a sigh.
The cover band's repertoire included Queen's "Somebody to Love," Outkast's "Bomb's Over Baghdad," and Toto's "Africa" — likely "his karaoke go-to's" because "none of these songs go together."
The most salient memories of the evening, she said, were the outfits. Despite having a somewhat deflated audience, Sandoval kept the showmanship high, with costume changes and a shoe change.
"He had patent leather red shoes and changed into Swarovski crystal sneakers," according to Morrissey.
And despite his pariah status among 99% of 18-45 year-olds, Sandoval apparently does still have some ride or dies.
"There were girls that were there that were into him. He could have gotten laid," Morrissey said. "At the very end, after he went backstage, there was this gross guy who looked at me and said 'Team Tom.'"