500 Clown

I saw 500 Clown Frankenstein tonight with Shannon and Brad and Amy and Jet and fellow humans. Free steins and dogs before the show - ohhhh yeah. And then our small crowd was seated in a small room with a small cast. And it was intimate, and personal, and It was so SO so REAL. For those of you who don't know, 5o0 Clown is Chicago's best nonprofit Clowning theatre and school. 2 clowns, 1 clownette, presented an interpretation of a doomed play of Shelley's Frankenstein complete with vain actors, mutinies, temper tantrums, and breaking the 4th wall (screwing with audience) that made the clowning so real. Real physical risks, real conflict, they put the slap in slapstick. One unscripted event was when Frankenstein stood on a table, electrocuted the monster by holding the dangling lightbulbs, fell off the table, in the process bumping the bulbs hard enough to collide with the spinning fan, which catapulted the lights around a beam (they didn't break on Jet's head, thank God). Totally spontaneous, totally dangerous, totally my heart's delight!
In other news, I'm enjoying my classes at Second City. They're all pretty interesting. Oh shit(-ake mushrooms), my COA winter class registration opens at midnight. Gotta run!