I saw the - funniest - show last night. Sides, the tale of six actors auditioning around NYC.
All right, full disclosure: one of the actors is a dear friend's boyfriend. But that made no difference. They call it Sides, they say, because a side is the part an actor reads in an audition. Well, I think they really call it Sides because those are the body parts you end up grasping as you roar, as you struggle for breath.
It's really careful comedy, structured more around timing and pauses than impressions and punchlines. And the details - my goodness, the details. God and comedy are in the details, and that's where this show soars - in one segment a girl who is doing a god-awful audition dance screws up her face in major concentration to perform what must be a very, very difficult combination and is in reality as easy as snapping her fingers - see, it's the kind of comedy you just cannot describe. It loses it to describe it.
Anyway, it's really awesome. Go if you can.
(I will get to the youyous, I haven't forgotten!)
Sounds funny if I get the chance I shall have to check it out. You, in turn, should see 'The Forty Year Old Virgin' That movie is funny enough that I and a good friend were still laughing long after the closing credits. In fact the entire movie theater was laughing throughout the movie...It was wild.
When does the show start touring or are there even plans to do this?
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