Birthday Face made its debut last night. We part of the Sketch CAGEMATCH! at Stage 773. Seven teams performing sketch comedy to win a coveted three week run in October.
The rules: each team had ten minutes to do their thing. After each team went, the audience members had to text their vote for their favorite team, and the team with the most votes wins. These competitions are won and lost by getting your friends to show up and vote. Spoiler alert: we lost.
Despite the defeat, this was a good experience. We tried out three new sketches. We were able to get all three completed in less then ten minutes (about ten seconds shy of ten minutes). And we were in a room of people who mostly didn't know us, and we got laughs.
We also got exposed to six other groups to see what other people are doing. The quality of the competition varied. Some pieces were too talky. Others were too heavy with their exposition. Some sketches took too long to get to the point. On the plus side, we also saw some very tight and funny stuff.
I thought we had a nice blend of material. We began with a zombie attack, then we had a heartbreaking unrequited love between a nerd and the robot sex doll he made, and we ended with an orgasm.
So, no free October run for us. Guess we'd better get to work on something new.
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ReplyDeletei think the arc of our scenes made a ton of sense to all. maybe next time let's end with a musical number, or 16 bars of zombie sex sounds...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Brigid. Perhaps zombie sex sounds to the tune of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water."
ReplyDeleteYes, that's what we'll do.