First off, tonight was really fun. We decided backstage that we wanted to attack this show with a Brendan Jennings energy. If you don't know Brendan, he's one of the funniest and most committed improvisors in the city. Anyway, we played hard, fun and fast. We started off as a group of women who all hated being married because we could only have sex with one man. We were shopping when we realized that we were about to miss our movie (Fivel Goes West). We dashed off to catch the movie. After that, some of my favorite moments in the show came as the women sat in the theater watching Fivel Goes West. Kass and I even played the mice singing "Somewhere Out There" (which was actually from the first Fivel movie, but still really fun). People cheered after the singing, which is always great.
There were a couple of times where we just got too crazy. At one point there were two homeless men, a kidnapper and his victim, the parents of the victim, someone calling CVS pharmacy on the phone and who knows what else! It got kinda crazy and "out there". I didn't love this scene because it'd have been better if we just stuck to one idea.
Another fun thing we did tonight was have two shows. Rather than having one long show, we did a short show, took an intermission and then did a second show completely. Our coach David liked the second show better, but I completely disagree with him. He thought the second show had better scenes, but I thought it was sloppy and all over the place. I guess everybody just likes different things. I'd love to talk to some students after these shows and see what they liked and disliked. Maybe next week...
Well, that's about all I got. I have a Digiorno pizza in the oven, some red wine and some episodes of Jericho to watch. Have you ever seen this show??? It's shaping up to be pretty awesome.
You know, I gotta disagree. I loved the bit with the two homeless guys, the kidnapper, the kid, and the wrong phone number. I think watching you four fill in for different characters as they came up was fun, especially the different interpretations each of you had for each character. I think the audience enjoyed it. But who am I to judge what THEY think? It was a game and I liked watching you four play it.
ReplyDeleteI got confused with the oil man swinging by as the house was getting robbed. I couldn't tell if that was the oil repairman that Eric was playing only moments ago or if it was the oil tycoon from the first show and you were making a connection. But all turned out well.
I thoroughly enjoyed the free candy.
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ReplyDeletePS - I'm confused by my 'Andy Leigh' name here and 'Andrea' up there under followers.... so I wouldn't dwell too much on the fact that I got confused by the oil man.
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