Foolish Friday

Last Friday, we had our second Fools’ show of the year. It was fairly late this year, but the schedule depends on when the auditorium/chapel is available, and so we had a mid-March show. Fourteen of fifteen Fools were able to make it, so we had a pretty full stage.

The audience was perfect – they were high-energy and really “into” the show. They laughed a lot, and they gave us good suggestions, and we had a fair number of audience members join us on stage for the last game (a game for which we traditionally allow audience members to come up and join us). It is really easy to perform in front of an audience like that. I’d guess we had somewhere between eighty and ninety people in the auditorium, but the size does not matter when they are pulling for you as this audience was.

We had a really good show. For the most part, the students followed the guidelines of improv and of the individual games. There were great moments on stage, and I was able to play in four games myself (normally I’m only in two or three). It was a fun evening.

Some of the things featured on stage were:

– An art show displaying new-found works by Picasso
– An answering machine full of messages from the aardvark king demanding cheese curls
– A platypus detective trying to find chocolate
– A game of questions inspired by bananas
– A game of musical chairs in which a lifeguard saves a kid from drowning, only to slip up and get fired
– A criminal who was helped by Mr. Gurnish (a teacher) in Mordor
– A future husband and wife going shopping for a cheap wedding dress
– A debate about the pros and cons of garbage disposals
– Two chefs battling it out for the best cookie dough

We had more skits as well. The evening went well, and we had lots of positive feedback. After the show, Mer and I went out to Cold Stone Creamery for dessert with the Churchills, which is a post-show tradition. We had not seen Zach and Londa for a few weeks, so we had a good time together (except I started having contact problems at Cold Stone, so I spent ten minutes in the bathroom trying to fish one out). It was a great show and a fun evening.

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