Someone recently said;
"Nowhere does it say on our posters Rapid Fire Theatre/Theatresports is necessarily a comedy show."
It was supposed to inspire us to do more than just worry about being funny and such. So I understand why it was said. Yet, our posters do feature (rather prominently) these two things;
-A pair of Groucho Marx glasses
-A chimp
But a chimp in Groucho Marx glasses? Now that's just silly.
Song of the day: "Too Much Monkey Business" by Chuck Berry. Yeah, yeah, the Beatles covered it. Chuck lives!
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You know, you're right. However, other bands/artists did cover it:
Cream
Eric Clapton
The Hollies
Dion
The Kinks
Elvis Presley
The Yardbirds
The Youngbloods
And that's only the bands/artists I'd think you might know. There's way more... but I'm not going to pretend I didn't look that up.
Man, I'm glad you mentioned this Shawn.
The fact is anyone who says that our posters don't directly say that we do comedy is nit-picking. RFT has been an improv-comedy company since day one.
Sure we have our own style, and we work to find new & unique ways of expressing it, but at the end of the day we do comedy.
And we express it through comedic images and phrases. Not by announcing: "we do comedy."
Good thing we've got blogs like yours pointing the way for those who are lost.
You're a good man Shawn.
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