I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf! All right? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
I really think youre just making much too big a thing out of it.
Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea!