For those who never got to see King Tut the first time around, well you are lucky little devils. Why? Because Tut is back. And he’s mad as hell. In fact, he’s especially angry because they are sending him to Chicago instead of New York, here he really wanted to go. He’s been dying (ha ha!) to see Spamalot, and just can’t get his bony hands on tickets. But in Chi-town he will be, as part of a traveling exhibit called “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” which opens Friday at The Field Museum.
The expectations are high, with exhibit organizers saying the show could draw 1 million visitors before it closes on Jan. 1, 2007. And, of course, businesses, restaurants and L’il Tut trinket makers are working overtime to be able to sell you as much Tut-related crap as you can pay for. The show features more than 130 treasures from the resting place of the “the boy king” and other royal tombs, all between 3,000 and 3,500 years old. Will New York get its own Tut? Well, hard to say. All I know is that he will go on display next February at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. After that, bets are off.