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This is the “Stairway to Heaven” of Dances with Wolfshirts. The “A Whiter Shade of Pale” of Dances with Wolfshirts. The “Mickey Mouse Club Closing Theme” of Dances with Wolfshirts if you went to my middle school.
Seriously, though, “Dances with Wolfshirts” is closing, it is advisable to get reservations right here for the last performance, because this performance is very likely to sell right the hell out.
Dances With Wolf Shirts follows the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic story of the rise and fall of a trend, while exploring subjects like conformity, celebrity, honesty, disability, fidelity, liberty, and numerous other words that may or may not end in -ty. AND THIS IS THE LAST ONE!
Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 29th. 9:30
The PIT: 154 W. 29th St.
Between 6th and 7th Ave
$5.
Also, join us afterwards for some DRINKSES WITH WOLFSHIRTS!
We will be at the Triple Crown Inn shortly after 10:30 until shortly after our bodies give up. That’s The Triple Crown, where you can get discounted drinks and food for saying that you just came from seeing a show at the Peoples Improv Theatre.
The address is 330 7th Avenue, between 28th and 29th Streets!
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Something to make your day Purpler, from the company that brought you these GPS-enhanced insoles.
Written by A Week of Kindness
Featuring Dan Hopper, Mike Still, Beth Peters, Chris O’Connor, Phil Lamplugh, Matt Little, Kevin Haulihan, Dave Zigerelli, Clayton Dowty, Nate Kushner, Becky Yamamoto, and Mia Leopardi.
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This comes courtesy of Doug Strassler at offoffonline.com. The review can be found here.
Penn Station isn’t the only place in west Midtown witnessing a flurry of activity. Consider the People’s Improv Theater, just a few blocks south. This upstart has risen very quickly to rival the Upright Citizens Brigade as a major source of edgy sketch comedy.Take, for example, Dances With Wolfshirts, the fifth show from sketch group A Week of Kindness. Week consists of the well-oiled team of Dan Hopper, Nate Kushner, and Mike Still, performing live and in several previously filmed skits as they mock consumerism, a subject ripe for teasing.
In fact, the group itself bills the show as a “multimedia blend of high-energy, high-wit live performance and innovative, often demented short films” exploring “the lifecycle of trends, immersing the audience in a world of soup addicts, frivolous surgery, and, of course, lots of awesome T-shirts with huge wolves on them.” (They do all this with a little help from some friends and fellow comedians, such as Chris O’Connor and Becky Yamamoto.) The source of the show’s title is a made-up trend—shirts featuring the faces of wolves—that the trio pretends is the latest fad.
The humor, as anyone knows who has seen them perform, is quite irreverent. For instance, there’s the aforementioned soup sketch, played as though it were an afterthought that became a sketch in itself. The subject is one sketch member’s addiction to soup and his attempts to wean himself off it. Like the Seinfeld cast, Hopper, Kushner, and Still know how to carry off a scene, turning nothing into something.
Their timing is also impeccable. They can pace a scene so that they take the joke out just far enough, without it dying on them and the audience. (Hopper, in particular, offers some priceless double takes and line readings.) Given that the sketches are written and rehearsed in advance, the show is quite well paced; it’s a shame they couldn’t have added another 10 or 15 minutes’ worth of material.
One funny scene has a member of the group bringing home a girlfriend to meet his father. The girlfriend turns out to be Helen Keller, who, disabilities aside, is quite the chatterbox, inviting “herself” to feast on a rather disgusting glazed doughnut. Another highlight finds the members of Kindness and some additional cast members in a video sending up the montage in the film Magnolia where the characters sing Aimee Mann’s song “Wise Up.” Each of the three performers has an amazing presence, with the perfect combination of disciplined rehearsal and agility on one’s feet.
The jokes in Wolfshirts meander; they are not predictable and do not follow any standard setup. Occasionally, there isn’t even a punch line; the scene just goes black, and then the audience laughs. It takes a few seconds for the sketch’s humor to register, but when it does, the audience laughs. And oh, how they laugh.
Wolfshirts plays at the People’s Improv Theater on Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. through the end of August.
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Dances with Wolfshirts is now sponsored by the Brooklyn Brewery!
What does that mean for you, intrepid comedygoer? It means that if you come to our show and provide us with your e-mail address, then you will be entered in a drawing for one of the certificates that we will be giving away at the end of each remaining show!
Each of these certificates is good for 10 free beer tokens, redeemable at the Brewery’s public happy hours on Friday evenings. That’s a $30 value.
All three of us can say without irony that we go through a lot of Brooklyn Beer, and that it’s good, and that it’s especially good when it’s really fresh, and you can’t get it fresher anywhere else than at these happy hours.
So come on over to the show, write out your e-mail address (we guarantee that this will not lead to our mailing list e-mails being sent more than once to any e-mail address), and you’ll be eligible. Free good beer is better than not-free good beer, right?
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Wow….
I shit you not, someone got to our site by searching for “turkish preteen girls porn.”
I don’t know what on our site caused that to be a hit for that search, or who did the searching, but get some help.
I would go so far as to say that anyone searching for “turkish preteen girls porn” is a real Turkey.
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