What I Did On My Summer Vacation

[kvarko]

crankyotter has been (rightfully) bugging me to post something. I've been up to a lot, but now I forget what I should blog about :)crankyotter (prave) pikadis min por instigi novan enskribon. Mi multon faris, sed nun forgesas tion pri kio mi verku :)I'm right now hanging out with mollishka in Columbus, OH. We're about to make muffins, so this post will be written in spurts...

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[kvarko]

The "shit bag" contained one whole roll of toilet paper (!), a piece of toast (!!), folded pages of newspaper, and two-three playing cards. I was in the second row, so it was hard to see behind to see what was happening. I didn't catch whether any paper flew when Rocky came out, but when Dr Scott busted in, I wanted to throw and didn't sense that anyone else was throwing, but eventually someone broke the ice and a toilet paper war started. Instead of water, Frank threw a cup of popcorn or candy or something like that.

The Columbus show was mostly like the Boston/Providence shows, but with a few shouts that I hadn't heard before, including a couple of shouts-back-on-shouts. Also, the cast themselves shouted a number of lines (and just general jokes), including lines back at the audience, which was really nice. But the Raleigh show has been the biggest outlier, in that the audience participation just had a totally different character: people were standing up and wandering the aisles to give lines during the whole show, and there's an underwear run in the middle (during the Rocky chase in the lab?) where everyone who wants to run around in their undies goes in circles around the (large) theater, and the participation just has a whole different character since people aren't jut sitting in their seats looking forward but are interacting with each other and with the cast as much as the movie. (Columbus was in a two-aisle, fairly large room, by the way, though not a huge room. Oh, and the theater sells alcohol :)

I also think this show might have a large number of virgins and non-regulars. It's the summer and students aren't in town as much. It might be worth experiencing the show during the school year, or Halloween even.