How did you spend your Halloween?  Well… if you happen to be Jen, Traysie, Michele and Andy, then you spent it performing improv alongside our good friends Valentine Wolfe at The Sugar Shack!

From whorish costumes and moms insisting their children watch Glenn Beck and dress as Sarah Palin to marbles and dirty little devices to  outlandish auditions for Nightmare on Main Street, some good, rowdy Halloween fun was had by all!  

But don’t ask us about the Frankenstein Piss.  I’m pretty sure none of us tried that. 

We hope you had a good spooky time!  If you want to share your brilliant costume (and we know there were some), go ahead and tell us all about it in the comments! 

Today we celebrate the birth not of one, but TWO remarkable ladies.  Who, you might ask?

One is the delightful and way-too-talented-to-be-real Shannon (here pictured as the meat in what has got to be the most ridiculously talented, awesome and sexy sandwich in town!)!  Designer, artist, gourmet chef… there’s nothing this woman can’t do!  We love Shannon, and we’re super glad she was born!

Two is the Globe’s youngest member… Mae!!  She’s pictured here in her THIRD Shakespeare credit before the age of seven.  And if you haven’t seen her virtuoso performance of Helena’s monologue, make sure to click here (and her next installment will be up soon!)

It seems today is a good day to be born if you want to be one of the coolest chicks on the planet!

Okay, obviously this story is very sad for the person who lost his life and all who knew him.  But come on:

Ice Skating Bear Kills Russian Circus Hand

I mean… wow. 

Tonight is the opening of… wow… is it really the THIRD year of the Warehouse Theatre’s annual haunted house?  CRAZY!  Anyway, go, bring children, watch them scream.  And, if you’re smart, purchase your tickets ahead of time at BI-LO for a discounted price.  Yeah, baby!

Go get in the Halloween spirit!

So, I’m not sure whether you realize this, but I - Jen - have been living in Columbia for the last year and some change working on my MA in Theatre.  And this semester, that work has included directing the bizarre little comedy The Book of Liz by David and Amy Sedaris (the self-dubbed "Talent Family").  It plays this weekend… and I just wanted to let you all know.  So there.  And hey - I even worked a Distracted Globe mention into the preview article!  So if you happen to be wandering around Columbia this weekend… drop on by!

You’ve probably seen this video… but if you haven’t seen this video… you really need to see it:

http://thecoolgadgets.com/subway-piano-stairs-union-square-nyc/

They created a working piano on the stairs out of a subway in Stockholm… and it’s just plain amazing.  They say fun can change behavior for the better.  And we here at The Distracted Globe humbly agree! 

Well folks, last night was all kinds of fun!  We joined Clemson’s Mock Turtle Soup and Greenville Little Theatre’s Laughing Stock for WAY too much funny!  And what did we learn?  We learned that there are few things in the world quite as funny as Jayce’s propensity for Pork Rinds, Splenda and Lifetime movies.  We learned that Jared is truly one of the great authorities on Olympic curling.  Andy eats too much chicken, but falls like a dancer.  Jen speaks terrible French, but definitely grew up on Sesame Street and Jazz Hands.  And Anne’s Scarlet O’Hara is a little more politically minded than Vivian Leigh’s.  

AND… after all the funny, we headed over to the Warehouse to close down they’re rockin’ Haunted Gala - which EXCEEDED its fundraising goal!

So thank you to GLT, thank you to Laughing Stock, thank you to Mock Turtle Soup, thank you to Just Joe from B93.7, and thank you to EVERYONE who supported Improvapalooza and the EVER AWESOME Warehouse Theatre!  This was a good weekend for Greenville Theatre!  Go team!

We don’t know if you know this - but today is the birthday of the one - the only - RYAN BRADBURN!  He’s sweet, he’s talented… and if he comes at you with a bottle of Goldschlager, you had better head the opposite direction!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!  We <heart> you like crazy!

What’s that mean?  Well, I’ll tell you!  It’s "Happy Birthday" in Welsh!  And we are wishing a very happy birthday to our very favorite Welshman, Rhydwyn!

So Happy Birthday, Rhydwyn!  We hope you have a falafel-rific day… and that you come home to us soon!

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Justin, who has played with us for the last two summers, and is now traveling all over the place… probably not as a circus side show.  In fact, more like a working actor!  So good for him!

So Happy Birthday, Justin!  We’re glad you were born!