My Favorite MP Moment

by brett

Eric's blog got me thinking about some of the best MP moments that we've ever had. Man, there have been some pretty fun times onstage but one moment really stands out to me.

In our 5b performances, Eric and I used to play two characters backstage called Huck N Shuck. We were like college frat guys who always did secret handshakes. Well, during our "Michael At Midnight" run at The Playground, we finally had a chance to use those characters. We were messing with some girl in the high school hallway when we got a call from the commissioner (Josh). Apparently the mayor's wife had been kidnapped and he needed Huck N Shuck to save her. So these two douche bag jocks (who are also super heroes as we find out) fly all the way to England to stop a sadistic killer who is driving with the mayor's wife (Ben) all tied up in the car. We landed, punched through the car window and then threw the car across the stage. It was the first time in a show that we actually got cheers and applause from the audience!

That was also the moment that I realized that team work is always better than just "being funny". Nobody really did anything that funny in that scene, but because we all played together and everyone was involved, the audience loved it. In Michael Pizza, the "whole" is greater than it's "parts". What I mean is that the things we are capable of as a group are leaps and bounds better than the things we are capable of individually.

I can still clearly see the look on Josh's face when I lifted up the front of that object work car and he pretended to be flying away. Funny.