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Likewise, if you’re doing a show like this, it is presumptuous to demand that anybody pay attention to you before you’ve done anything to prove you’re worth their time. Especially because, unlike a high school classroom, you’re not even supposed to be there.
I believe management hired them. There’s nothing presumptuous about performing where you were asked to perform.
Additionally, they’re not interupting anybody’s dinner. They were invited by the owner of the restaurant to accompany the dinner performance. If the owner didn’t properly advertise that to patrons, it’s on him.
Look, I’m not saying they shouldn’t have done the show. I know for a fact that they were invited by the manager. But once you enter a room it and it’s clear the audience isn’t there to see you, you adjust your behavior accordingly. I’m saying that instead of shouting “excuse me?” for two minutes, they should have just started the show.
“Adjust their behavior”? “Should have”? Are you familiar with improv, or Dreadnought?
Let me rephrase, since people don’t seem to understand what I’m saying: they should have fucking manned up and dived straight into performing, instead of begging like a bunch of pansies for people to look at them.
If that’s antithetical to Dreadnought or improv, I guess I know nothing about either.
Exhibit A of why I hate not being at a computer all day. I go to class and I’m not caught up on all the dirt.
Can someone clear up as to whether or not this audio clip is from the beginning of the set? From second hand accounts I’ve heard tonight, I don’t think it was. So odds are they did “fucking man up” and “dive into scenes” but when you’re doing a weird, free-form, possibly organic (?) improv “set” in a sushi restaurant, then I doubt normal scenes are what will transpire.
And I agree with Nicole. It’s completely up to the owner of the sushi place to advertise “Hey, improv show, happening, tonight, probably during your meal.” Then all bets are off. If you come in, with knowledge that an improv show is happening, then buckle up. That’s what you are getting. You are agreeing to be an audience member. If you don’t want it, then don’t eat there after reading the sign. Same thing when you see that there’s live music at a restaurant on a certain night. Now, did the sushi place properly advertise it? I dunno, but that’s certainly not Dreadnought’s fault.
And also, the use of the phrase “fucking manned up” makes it sound like you don’t like your friends. And I know that’s not the case, but I just sometimes wonder if you understand the severity of your internet voice. Because you come across as a much bigger stick in the mud than I know you to be in real life. It’s whack.
AND TUMBLR IS THE PLACE TO SOLVE THIS! HI FOLLOWERS! HIIII!!!!
This clip is from the middle of the show. And it is fucking insane to suggest that there was anything about this show that involved timidity, etiquette or shame. And that’s what made it an event, more than a show. And that’s why it fucking ruled. This was pure organic chaos, and the overwhelming vibe was that the crowd was into it.
Dreadnought is performing an improv show tonight. Not at Under St. Marks, not at The Creek, or Gotham City Improv, but at Daioh Sushi, a Japanese restaurant across the street from Dallas BBQ on W 23rd St. It sounds ridiculous and awesome.
From Don Fanelli:
Of course there is a back story here. But more importantly, a kind gentleman that owns a sushi restaurant and sometimes gives motivational speeches, is expecting a quality show from an improv group that fully discloses that each show “might be a failure of art.” We will be “performing” in the front window to “entice” people off the street to come in and eat sushi. We already are set up for failure.
I also want to add that when I heard about this show, my immediate thought was: “Shit. I am probably going to be naked at some point and my teammates are going to be eating sushi off my body.” If that was my first thought, I am not sure where this show is going to go.
So if you have never seen Dreadnought perform, this might be a good show to get a feel of what we are about. The organic creation of something magical or the inherent destruction of something beautiful.
I predict this will be a new low in our young improv careers. And we will go down in a blaze of glory.Go to the IRC thread for more information. Also definitely visit the owner’s website to find out how crazy this might get.
We are all winners here.
This poor man doesn’t know what’s in store for him.
Hey by the way everybody- this fucking ruled.