We’re All Shook Up

As you may know, The Warehouse Theatre is opening their latest mainstage show Elvis People TONIGHT! Of course, if you came to our last round of improv shows, you already know everything you need to know about Elvis:


Of course, if that doesn’t tell you everything you ever needed to know about Elvis and the people who love him (and we’re kinda betting it didn’t), then make sure to check out Elvis People playing through December 12. It’s a hunka hunka burnin’ theatre, baby!

And remember… the second weekend - Thanksgiving Weekend - The Globe will be performing late night improv after the shows! So the 27th and 28th just might be the best time to come! But do call ahead, these tickets are selling like crazy! See ya soon, ya hound dogs!

SCTA

This weekend was the annual conference for the South Carolina Theatre Association, held down at Coastal Carolina.  Now, as a part of the festivities, they invited a few performers from around the state to come together for an improv performance Saturday night.  So… being the one who’s half way across the state anyway, Jen hopped in her car and zoomed to beautiful Conway, SC for an evening of improv with some other folks from Greenville and Sumter.  From flamingos to Wal-mart, from Sasquatch to sperm banks… it was an odd evening.  And it’s always a good time to see a group of people gathered together to chat about theatre.  So bravo to the whole SCTA team for putting on a great convention, and thanks for inviting us to play!

H is for Happy, B is for Birthday

Today is Sesame Street’s 40th birthday!  Can you believe it?!?!?  I kind of have a hard time imagining a world without Sesame Street.

So here’s a personal favorite Sesame Street moment of mine… what are yours?


Halloween with the Wolfe

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! 

It’s a Big One

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!

 

Ice Skating Bear

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. 

Be Afraid

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!

Fun is Good For You

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! 

Improvapalooza

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!

Guess Who?

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!