Crash Boom Bang Theatre Did it for Skits and Giggles 06.07.
I’m on the best drug.
The adrenaline rush after a show sticks with me for a while. Last night was, simply put, perfect. Although there were two technical difficulties (a light blew oh so randomly…but Chris covered well, and our smoke bombs didn’t go off at the end because the ghetto rigged wiring was rigged enough) but you can’t let those things bring the energy of the show down. And they certainly didn’t! Not to mention our first full run through with all of the tech requirement (which were a TON) was last night at 7:30. That’s right, 3 hours before the show was going to start. The run through was thankfully just that. Half way through, the computer with all of our sound effects crashed. I don’t know all of the details but it was all resolved by 9pm.
I was kinda wondering how a 10:30pm show would draw, but boy…did it ever. I don’t know the exact count, but it certainly was larger than our general outcome. A huge factor of the successful show was because of audience participation. We had a (rough) SNL type set up, with two cameras on the sides filming and projecting on a screen. Then, of course, there was the live action taking place on the stage. There were 5 live action skits, and filmed shorts in between each one. The finale was a skit entitled “The Merlin Springer Show.” This was where the audience deserved a big fat kiss. They were chanting, booing (a good thing!), reacting just like we wanted.
After the show there was a big dance party, and those are always fun.
Luckily, I get to feel this high a couple of times a month…with Crash Boom Bang and Purgatory Lounge.
Someone donated a mac to the Flying Monkey sound/light booth, so some of us were goofing off with Photo Booth while we were recording the sound effects. haha I had never played with one before…boy, are they addicting or what?
We didn’t get a whole lot of photos from this show because the booth was pretty crowded between Andy, Matt, Jon, and Don having to be up there…along with all the equipment, which included our camera/tripod and a video camera/tripod. They all had a few jobs to do and since our camera was set up in a corner, whenever anyone had a free hand to hit the shutter button, *click* a memory made.
Equalator and Scales
Sunday Afternoon Activities
*this skit was my favorite. Lynsie and Sam (boo her head is cut off!) play a lesbian couple exploring the world of oral sex for the first time.
Equaltor and Scales (part 2)
*this will be an on-going skit…
Unwanted Comentary
The Merlin Springer Show
the end (which is always bittersweet)