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Posted by Sampo, on November 15th, 2011
Posted by Sampo, on November 14th, 2011 * Trace Beaulieu and Bill Corbett will be the guest judges for a live show in Minneapolis called “PowerPoint Karaoke.” The game is this: Four people take the stage to give a PowerPoint presentation. The catch is: the presenters have never seen it before, and the slides are complete nonsense!
Performers will include Ari Hoptman, Phillip Andrew, Bennet Low, Courtney McLean and Joseph Scrimshaw. The show will be one night only, Monday Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) at the Bryant-Lake Bowl! Tickets are $12 ($10 with a 2011 MN Fringe Button or a CONvervgence badge). Call (612) 825-8949 or visit this site.
* Meanwhile the same group, Theatre Arlo, is now preparing to present “Man Saved by Condiments!” a play written by Mary Jo Pehl, based on the true story of a man whose car went off a bridge, broke his hip, and survived for five days by eating snow and the packets of condiments he found under his seat. (The production will be directed our pal Bill Stiteler).
The group has started a fundraising effort at Kickstarter to raise money to bring the show to New York City in February and March of 2012.
Also, Frank Conniff is making a guest appearance on a web show called “Space Hospital.”
Posted by Sampo, on November 12th, 2011 An open thread for reports from today’s Cinematic Titanic shows in Green Bay. PACKERS!
Posted by Sampo, on November 12th, 2011 “Stressfactor” aka Tonya writes:
I’m kind of new to all of this but I’ve been keeping my own episode journal and I was just putting down my thoughts for Ep. 314 — Mighty Jack (yeah, I’m behind on my journal) when I found myself commenting that it was a good thing I had seen the KTMA version of this one since that is less cut and the plot is (marginally) followable.
This got me to thinking… “Is it important to be able to follow the plot of a movie to enjoy the riffing overall?”
Sure, individual riffs can kind of stand on their own but when an episode is taken as a whole do people enjoy the finished product more when they also understand what was going on in the film?
I can enjoy episodes I can’t follow — Mighty Jack and Castle of Fu Manchu are good examples. You just sort of need to be able to live in the moment and let the movie FLOW over you, as somebody says in “The Big Chill.” But can those be considered truly classic episodes, or do you need to be drawn in to the movie enough to be following the plot, for the episode to be a true classic?
What do you, the viewer, think?
(By the way, I love the idea of an episode journal.)
Posted by Sampo, on November 11th, 2011 UPDATE: Love to get some reports on these shows!
Ed Huyck has a nice piece in the Minneapolis City Pages about this.
Bill Corbett and a funny fellow named Joseph Scrimshaw previously co-wrote the play “My Monster,” and last year Joseph starred in Bill’s “Super-Powered Revenge Christmas.”
The two are now teaming up (once again under the “Joking Envelope” banner) for “Cinemadness,” “a comedy/variety show about the movies” in which Bill and Joseph “obsess over every aspect of the movie experience! Featuring comedy, music, an audience quiz, special guests and ironically, no actual movies whatsoever!”
The show will be presented at the always-sophisticated Bryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater, 810 W. Lake St., in South Minneapolis. All shows will be at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.).
The shows will be Saturday, Nov. 5, (with guest star Ari Hoptman, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11-12 (with guest star Kevin Murphy), Monday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 19 (with guest star Trace Beaulieu).
Tickets are $14 with reservations in advance, $18 on the day of show. Call 612-825-8949
or visit bryantlakebowl.com for more info.
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