{"id":100,"date":"2008-07-06T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-07-06T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:44:00","slug":"crash-boom-bang-theatre-did-it-for-skits-and-giggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Crash Boom Bang Theatre Did it for Skits and Giggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on the best drug.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;but Chris covered well, and our smoke bombs didn&#8217;t go off at the end because the ghetto rigged wiring was rigged enough) but you can&#8217;t let those things bring the energy of the show down. And they certainly didn&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t know all of the details but it was all resolved by 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>I was kinda wondering how a 10:30pm show would draw, but boy&#8230;did it ever. I don&#8217;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 &#8220;The Merlin Springer Show.&#8221; This was where the audience deserved a big fat kiss. They were chanting, booing (a good thing!), reacting just like we wanted.<\/p>\n<p>After the show there was a big dance party, and those are always fun.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I get to feel this high a couple of times a month&#8230;with Crash Boom Bang and Purgatory Lounge.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;boy, are they addicting or what?<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3178\/2643972379_e2d33b435c_o.jpg\" width=250px> <img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3158\/2643972589_742f1f3304_o.jpg\" width=250px><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3085\/2644799684_3b5a089b82_o.jpg\" width=250px> <img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3133\/2643973043_b1b90f8555_o.jpg\" width=250px><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3002\/2643973593_dd95a7e49b_o.jpg\" width=250px> <img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3069\/2644800960_cfe45254d2_o.jpg\" width=250px><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2644801776_0c3d1519e7_o.jpg\" width=250px> <img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3084\/2643976973_85290672b9_o.jpg\" width=250px><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;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&#8230;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.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3092\/2643988535_fa34d23e4b_o.jpg\" width=600px> <\/p>\n<p><!--more Skits and Giggles--><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3255\/2643985555_ddeaafc9b1_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3260\/2644812900_81ae468faa_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3165\/2644813114_b5987a3ff6_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Equalator and Scales<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3270\/2644813288_ace337c769_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Sunday Afternoon Activities<br \/>\n*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.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3009\/2643986681_975ddaed5c_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Equaltor and Scales (part 2)<br \/>\n*this will be an on-going skit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3174\/2644813750_ab0b984979_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Unwanted Comentary<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3262\/2644813914_1f1e19a8e1_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3097\/2643987385_cefdbf6fe6_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3152\/2643987615_5d5a7c317f_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>The Merlin Springer Show<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3054\/2643987895_20020b2977_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3143\/2644814992_213648e22f_o.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>the end (which is always bittersweet)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8230;but Chris covered well, and our smoke bombs didn&#8217;t go off at the end because the ghetto rigged wiring was rigged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}