I agree. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't. I have a few themes on my various chip sets, and two don't use "The" (Tigerhawk Card Room and River Rat), while my NUTS theme does.
I made my suggestions for your label mainly because the text looked a little small for the theme name, and also "VooDoo" and "Lounge" each have six letters, so if you enlarge that text and split it around the top hat, it might look really nice.