Family Guy Bows at Carnegie Hall

It was probably the youngest audience Carnegie Hall has hosted in years. Indeed, there was not a gray hair (or blue hair) in sight last evening as the cast of Family Guy took the stage for a live performance of two of the show's most famous episodes. Backed by a forty-piece orchestra, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry and Danny Smith stepped up to stage mics and brought the Griffin family to irresistibly funny life. The delicious irreverence of holding their raunchy show in such a sedate setting was not lost on the cast, who several times expressed glee over the fact. And the sold-out crowd loved every minute, infusing the hall with a raucous energy the likes of which it has rarely (if ever) seen. As psychopathic baby Stewie Griffin might aver, "First stop, Carnegie Hall. Next stop, the world!" For that matter, where will the Griffin family actually pop up next? There's no telling, but if we hear that they've booked a performance at La Scala, we'll know their plans for global domination are truly complete.