Pink – Raise Your Glass in Sign Language
Christine Alexander performs P!nk’s Hit, “Raise Your Glass” in faux sign language for the hearing impaired in Sarasota, Florida. This is not ASL, completely! 😉
I’m posting this on the 30,000 turn of the Cee Lo Green video I did.
This is 100% in support of Pink and is in no way an attempt to violate copyright or profit from her work. DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF THIS SONG, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO IT’S RIGHTFUL OWNERS
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FST Improv 2011 cast members (l. to r.) Adam Ratner, Rebecca Langford, Catey Brannan, Jim Prosser, and Christine Alexander play around in the Sarasota sunshine. Photo By Amy Steinmetz
It’s FST Immmmprovvv
By | March 2, 2011 |
Improv, short for improvisation: to make do with what you have, to make it up as you go along, to play it as it lays, to wing it. It’s what we love about “Robinson Crusoe,” reinventing civilized life marooned in the wilderness. It’s the thrill of navigating the unexpected bounces coming at you at breakneck speed in downhill skiing. The brain and the body, responding together, doing what they were built to do to survive in the face of unexpected danger. And watching people do it? That’s entertainment.
Before there were scripts, there was improvisational theatre. Commedia Dell’Arte, a popular European form of theater throughout the medieval period, consisted of traveling actors performing improvised dialog within a story framework.
Modern improv was reinvented by Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, separately. Johnstone, who grew up in England and later taught at the University of Calgary, wrote a book called “Improv,” which expounded his belief that average people no longer attended theater because they felt it pretentious. He came up with the idea of “theatresports,” combining the disciplines of theatre and sports. The actors form two teams which compete with each other in acting out scenes based on suggestions from the audience, and are then awarded points from a panel of judges. The audience boos and cheers. TheatreSports is still performed, largely on the West Coast and in Canada.
Spolin’s “theatre games” were a teaching method she developed in the 1920s to induce children to enjoy learning how to act, and it’s still being used in acting classes around the world. Her son, Paul Sills, later reintroduced the method to the University of Chicago area in the mid-50s.
Sills, Del Close and David Shepherd assembled a group of actors into a “modern Commedia” which morphed into Second City, and became the core group out of which sprang Saturday Night Live.
Rebecca Langford, Florida Studio Theatre’s managing director and head writer for their “Laughing Matters” series, among many other things, created and directs the improv program. On the night I was there, I spoke with her co-director and performer Adam Ratner. Ratner practically grew up on the floor boards of FST. He was with the Kid Komedy Klub for over 25 years and has been doing “FST Improv” for four years. He was also fortunate enough to learn his skills at the feet of Del Close and Paul Sills. Sounds kind of ancient, doesn’t he? But he’s a whippersnapper of 34.
The enthusiastic audience contained many regulars as the show is naturally different every single night but always a hoot, and theatregoers do a lot of hollerin’ to express their approval and provide suggestions.
The ensemble members, consisting that night of Christine Alexander, Chris Friday, Darryl Knapp, Steve Turrisi and Angel M. Parker were on their tippy toes making us laugh at their take on sketches such as “Day in the Life,” “Conducted Story,” “Thank the Academy” and “Job Interview.”
Jim Prosser is the accompanying pianist and his talented musicianship greatly abetted “One Word Song,” which was performed hilariously using my suggested word, “innocuous.” The stand-out, raw, comic talent of that particular evening, to my mind, was Christine Alexander, whose quick-witted, goofy, committed and utterly unself-conscious performance lets it all hang out, which is what it takes to do great improv, ultimately.
~I’m blushing….. 😉 THANK YOU, Pelican Press!
Scooby Spoof Wars
In a parallel universe a legendary battle between good and evil has replayed for a millennia, and so it shall for ever more. Although the war is the same the warriors are a bit different…
Arnold Schwarzenegger – Darth Vader
Bill Cosby – Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fred – Luck Skywalker
Shaggy – C3PO
Scooby Doo – R2D2
Sandwich – Sandwich
Star Wars meets Scooby Doo in this G-Rated short film written and performed by Steve Turrisi.
Produced by: ChristineAlexander.net
Party Quarks with FST Improv
Here’s a clip of us at the FST Improv show Feb 8th. I’m hosting a party with strange guests… enjoy!
On Piano: Jim Prosser
Hosting: Christine Alexander
Guests: Tim Beasley, Angel M. Parker, Steve Turrisi
Director: Rebecca Langford
Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You” translated by Christine Alexander
2/28/11 – Well, they removed the song from the video on YouTube. 😦
I had some fun making this video! Shot with a Sony Cybercam on a tripod in four different locations in Sarasota, Florida. And I edited it in iMovie. Hope you enjoy and share! 😉
Lazy Fairy Girls perform at Recipe for Happiness
Angel M. Parker, Catey Brannan and Christine Alexander perform for over 250 women at this special event, Recipe for Happiness.
Sarasota Blues Fest Logo on Girl’s Head
My buddy Rick Hughes (co-owner with me of AnythingArts.com) filmed this clip of Rudy Harp at Michael Urban Hair Studio etching out my first event logo: Sarasota Blues Fest. I love it!
Check out more of Rick’s work here.
The Ebay Auction for the NEW logo that I will wear at the Sarasota Blues Fest is ending Oct 24, 2010. Hurry and bid! Here’s the link.
Thank you Sarasota Observer for the shout out!
Advertising Space for Sale on the Back of my Bald Head
Click here to go to the Ebay Auction!
Be the first to advertise on the back of my bald head. I will be in front of the news, on stage and hanging closely to Barbara Strauss, founder of the Sarasota Blues Fest on Nov 6. Hurry, Hurry, Bid, Bid! Thousands of people will see your company name/logo on my head. You won’t regret it. 🙂
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