More Class

This slacker was late to class again yesterday.  My tactic to buy goodwill from my fellow writers? Cannoli for all.  A new deli opened in Logan Square, Half-Italian, and their cannoli have a very beneficial effect on my mood and outlook on life.  So, everybody got one in class yesterday because yours truly was late.

I was so late that I missed the re-writes of the songs from last week.  So, no update on Ben's fledgling Broadway sensation: "Menstruation! The Musical."  Fortunately, we did have re-writes.  Brian re-wrote a sketch about the Texas Rangers at the Alamo.  It was a damn good re-write.  The purpose of this blog is not to provide too much detail about our pieces, and I hope I don't overshare, but pubic hair can be used as a weapon.

Laura re-wrote a sketch on plagiarism that was ripped from her life experiences.  (She's not a plagiarist, but she did have to engage in the dangerous mission of bringing a suspected plagiarist to justice.)  I personally liked the ending.  Our group has a tradition of sorts: when you get stuck writing a sketch, have a fire-breathing dragon come in and destroy everything.  Works every time.

Shane tweaked his sketch in which a blues man gets more than what he bargained for when he attempts to reach a deal with the devil.  There are some very hilariously offensive bits brought to life by song.  And that brings us to Mark's contributions.  He took a swipe at the Catholic-priest-paedophilia piñata.  Joe's advice was that the offensive bits should be done through song, because you can get away with outlandishly inappropriate humor more easily through song.  Can't wait for that re-write!

This writer took another crack at his suicide sing-a-long.  Sigh.  It's still a work in progress.

More news about our show:

Auditions will be on Saturday April 21, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. through 4:00 p.m.  The show will be on Friday nights in Donny's Skybox at 9:00 p.m.: June 29, July 6, July 13, and July 20, 2012.

In other news:

My Improv Level E show will be on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 12:00 noon in the ETC theater.  Jawohl, Mutterfickers!

Ben and I got to do some Improv together last night.  We were part of an auxiliary performance to the 43rd Annual Biggest Liar Competition, which was held (appropriately enough) at a funeral home.  It was quite a bit of fun.  We'll have to do more of that one of these here days.