Latest trend in public improv
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Food Court Musical
Frozen Grand Central Station
Liverpool Train Station Dance
Cats?
All the world's a stage!
Today I discovered the most exciting new trend to hit shopping centers, parks and even a train station and that is Public Improv! I look at these videos and weep, I am so moved and inspired... and envious.
Imagine your typical day- miserable expression- contemplating the flat, leather hamburger about to digest your navel. Randomly, a girl in a fast food cap leaps onto the formica counter beside you and pours out her anguish in musical theater style. Your eyebrows raise, your brow furls. Bring on the medics. The clock is ticking and your desk isn't getting any emptier. You take a bite of ketchup bread as another wacko leaps to this girl's defense, also in song. What the heck?
All shook up, you stuff the hallucinating burger in the trash and race for the train station and blessed anonymity. You are minding your own business when the guy in front of you freezes midstep. His papers flutter to the ground like golden aspen leaves in slow motion. Beyond him, a girl... a guy... an entire herd of stationary bodies clutter your path. What was in that bread? The country has gone berserk.
You quit your job and become an expatriot, moving to the Old Country where life remains sane, routine, predictable. You are minding your own business when the guy in front of you begins to dance like a crazy man. Beyond him, a girl... a guy... an entire gaggle of wacko people dance as if choreographed.
Albert Schweitzer once said, "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
Cats?
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Thank you, Williiam! I heard an NPR report last week on laughter and it truly is the best medicine. Studies have shown that laughing for no reason, i.e., forced laughter, creates the same healing effect as laughing at something truly funny. Just think, if everyone got into the habit of laughing while driving alone, road rage could become a thing of the past.
What would happen if all of us hubbers just froze and stopped reading, writing, and commenting? I bet everyone would stop and wonder what happened, especially google. Then we could unleash our plan to take ov
Haha, cats. I've never heard of public improv before. Sounds really intriguing. I'll have to watch those videos. Thanks for the great hub!
Gosh, what an unbelievable thing!!! The Food Court musical is incredible -- the faces of the onlookers! And the freeze, there's this guy that touches a 'frozen' girl. And what of the dance at the station? I dig that, I wish it happened to me in Atocha!! Laugh! I'd join in for sure!
And you had to go for the final kill with those cats, I swear! What a fabulous, uplifting hub!! I can just see how the rest of my day is going to be a lot better! :-)
Oh Elena, you made my day! And it started out awesome because I went to my first 7am meditation class, which transferred me to lala land, lol. Thanks so much! Have a great day, today and every day!
Benjimester, two comments in one day. I am honored. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you did get to view the videos. I agree with Elena; I wish it would happen to me!!!
Blake, Blake, Blake. You are way too creative. You ought to be writing young adult novels. You are like an untested Louis Sacher.
Good thing I didn't see this hub until today when Elena. sent it to me just now or I never would have done the hub I just finished. I used 2 of the same videos for a total of 9 videos in one hub, fortunately, a different take, whew! dodged that bullet... called The Joy Makers: Feel the Love if you want a grin. Guess it was a case of "great minds think alike"! ;)
Hey, you didn't tell me you were over at my house filming my black and white tuxedo cat Leonardo asleep on the floor! Looks and acts just like him. Now he will really get "the big head" when he finds out he's famous... another great hub from you, thank you!
Hey Denny, spread the love is all I can say, lol. Glad two of us are sharing these amazing video events. My son is working up an extemp in Orange and I hope to add it to this Hub someday. I will let you know if and when it happens, ha.
Leonardo, eh? I thought he was already famous!
Thanks for the laugh! I loved the videos, but the cat one had me rolling!
Cats will upstage the best we humans have to offer, lol. Thanks for stopping.
OMG the cat chasing the bear was the funniest thing I have seen in years! As far as the people, I think that the people freezing in place would be the strangest thing to walk into. Might even be creepy if you had just seen a M. Night Shyamalan movie. LOL. Loved it.
Hey Paper Moon, thanks for telling me about MNShyamalan! I didn't know anything about him. Was there a particular movie you were referring to here?
I found a YouTube clip where MNS talks about movies, i.e., the best-- being The Godfather-- and his favorite. His work is pretty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUdhGLjJ14
Hre is a list of his filmography: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/18000196
Meanwhile, I am grateful that you loved the site!
William F. Torpey says:
10 months ago
That Food Court Musical is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! Fantastic hub, Storytellersrus. The Grand Central and Liverpool train station videos are fun, too. I hope this Improv movement continues and grows. This world needs a good sense of humor right now.