Jan 28 Maestro - Directors Roy and Alex D!!!

[Ruby W.]

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE STRING OF PEARLS was pretty fucking sweet.

[Justin D.]

This is why we need a multi-post quoting function on the boards!

After the show, I was thinking of going for drinks or dancing or something, but then I thought, NAY, nothing I do tonight will be as eventful as what just happened.

Exactly. I thought about going out with people, but I'm pretty sure we just would've spent most of the night talking about the show.

Here are my highlights, and please add to what I forget:
1. A "gentleman" in the front row tells us we suck at naming power tools during Category Die. (We did, but it wasn't necessary to tell us.)

Oh, god, they were fucking annoying. It wasn't even the heckling, but the constant talking that was annoying. So many times I heard the drunk women say some variation of "I don't get it" or "What're they doing?" or "What's the point of this?" and one of them was so drunk that she apparently couldn't hear, so she kept leaning comically far forward in her seat.

2. Justin starts Maestro with negative 1 points because he unsuccessfully tries to name 12 pickles. (I thought you did great, for the record.)

They were all real types of pickles until I got to about number 10. Somewhere, garlic shrimp pickles are real. And I totally would've stayed in the show too if it wasn't for that negative point. I kind of love being bitter about getting kicked out of Maestro, because it means the show is so fun that I wish I could stick around to keep doing it. That's good thing.

4. The couple continue to talk and be assholes, and eventually leave during the Happiest Aerobics Video in the World. ("If you don't see kittens falling from the sky, you're doing it wrong!" Nice, Kayla.) Did they get kicked out or just leave?

Matt and Kayla were such professionals to not just push forward with that scene but to purposefully do it in a way where they were trying to take attention away from the disruptive, kicked-out audience members. I think the best part might actually have been that the audience then gave them a score of four because they understood what was happening.

5. Justin, still bitter from the pickle incident, causes a lightning round scene to last ten minutes because, despite every improvisor and director supporting the scene as God or the Grim Reaper, he refuses to die.

I don't know if it was 10 minutes, but yeah, I definitely dragged that scene out and milked it because I knew that unless I got a five, it was going to be my final scene. Also, it was mainly because I had fun playing with Roy over the reason for that. Roy's so great. Plus, I got to end up being a dying Pa Kent in the scene telling his son, Thedward, that he's actually from Krypton, so that was awesome.

"Remember that woman who was your mother?"

6. Beastie Rap causes a verbal disagreement between Justin and both Kacis over whether his penis is small, he doesn't know how to use it, or both. The audience is amused and uncomfortable. Justin is eliminated.

Kacey's backhanded defense of me to Kaci's comment about the size of my genitalia was wonderfully complimentary and cruel at the same time. "No, it's huge! He just doesn't know how to use it!" I think you nailed it with the amused and uncomfortable bit. As people left I said, "Goodnight, and I do have sexual potency." I even heard many quietly laughing and saying "poor guy" as they made their way downstairs.

7. The power goes out, and an audience member yells, "The show must go on!"

So awesome!

8. The show goes on. Justin unsuccessfully tries to sneak back into the show thinking no one will notice because it is dark. (Scenes included a totally dark radio scene, nocturnal raccoon scene with audience cell phone spotlights, dimly lit bowling alley for divorced psuedo-Lesbians in the Bahamas, and a badass Apocalypse sermon by Deano.)

Every scene in the dark was absolutely beautiful.

5. Justin, still bitter from the pickle incident, causes a lightning round scene to last ten minutes because, despite every improvisor and director suporting the scene as God or the Grim Reaper, he refuses to die.

8. The show goes on. Justin unsuccessfully tries to sneak back into the show thinking no one will notice because it is dark.

No comment necessary.

Shut up, Karen.

Also, the lights sort of went out in two phases. After the initial blackout, there was like 30% house lights still up because of generator power, until it gradually got dimmer and dimmer over the course of 2 or 3 scenes and became entirely black. During the dim scenes Roy directed the audience to just close their eyes and open them when he said: "when the lights come up". It was pretty adorable.

Pure genius.

Oh one more thing!! Pre-blackout there was a pretty snarky "Stringing the Pearls" game that went meta and told the story of some audience members who liked to talk during shows and were eventually swallowed alive by the earth. Heh heh heh.

That may have been the most meta passive aggressive scene I've ever scene, and I don't think the targets understood that it was about them. Everyone else in the audience did though. I was dying on the side of the stage.

I can honestly say last night was a truly unique improv experience all around.

[HerrHerr]

Wow, this sounds like a Legend show. Like the time the a.c. was out and we handed out
popsicles to the audience.