Monday, October 26, 2009
Grocery Store Musical
Defenders of the Playful award-winning Improv Everywhere take their "musical mission" to the dangerously intimate and mundane environment of the local supermarket, producing the world's first Grocery Store Musical.
Be sure to see their webpage. Get a little closer to the experience in this interview with a few of the innocent bystanders.
The real magic here is in how open and responsive most of the shoppers were, how willing they were to abandon their shopping lists and embrace the extraordinary. There was real shared delight here, as if they were all in on the joke, even though they had nothing to do with it and couldn't really understand it. "When we did Food Court Musical," the blog reports, "we had a pretty good idea of where our audience would be– sitting at the tables. This was more unpredictable. We had all of this choreography planned, but we had no idea if people would make way for us. The area got increasingly crowded as the day went on, which made it all the more fun. Often people found themselves right in the middle of the show."
May we each find ourselves there, at least once in our life times, suddenly, and without reason, right in the middle of such a silly, joyful show. And when we do, as the song so poignantly recommends, "let's squish our fruit together."
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
Be sure to see their webpage. Get a little closer to the experience in this interview with a few of the innocent bystanders.
The real magic here is in how open and responsive most of the shoppers were, how willing they were to abandon their shopping lists and embrace the extraordinary. There was real shared delight here, as if they were all in on the joke, even though they had nothing to do with it and couldn't really understand it. "When we did Food Court Musical," the blog reports, "we had a pretty good idea of where our audience would be– sitting at the tables. This was more unpredictable. We had all of this choreography planned, but we had no idea if people would make way for us. The area got increasingly crowded as the day went on, which made it all the more fun. Often people found themselves right in the middle of the show."
May we each find ourselves there, at least once in our life times, suddenly, and without reason, right in the middle of such a silly, joyful show. And when we do, as the song so poignantly recommends, "let's squish our fruit together."
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
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