Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Unafarmers!

I like the Unafarmer poster, from Goose's fecund mind in 1996.

Unafarmers

I'll provide back story in the comments section.

posted by (d)avid at 11/17/2004 09:49:00 AM

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Blogger (d)avid said...

So Ted Kaczinski (aka the Unabomber) had just been ratted out by his own brother. Goose was oddly attracted to the story of the Unabomber and quickly decided that the Unafarmers as depicted by American Gothic would capture a powerful image. I believe my sole contribution was the "Package Too Large for Box" slip on the right hand side.

Goose and I wrote a large portion of Unabomber: The Musical, which we considered performing at the show. Basically, we took famous songs and twisted the lyrics to fit the Unabomber's life story. Although, the best moments came from singing songs straight up.

Ted's plaintive rendition of "My Favorite Things" (brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things; when the dogs bite; when the FBI stings; when I am feeling sad ...) and Little Orphan Annie singing "Tomorrow" (we envisioned Heather Wilkinson, in the role for obvious reasons, stopping mid song when she sees a package. "Oh, a package. It's for me. My luck must be changing.") would have been show stoppers. I'm not sure why we didn't perform these scenes as vinettes.

17/11/04 10:06 AM  
Blogger (d)avid said...

Goose, if you recall, I was totally with you on the vignettes. It played to our group's strengths. I am more conceptual than performance, McMahon had a lengthy history of fine movies (Dirk Thunderpants would make a great show on Comedy Central), and Kravis was an award winning playwright (honestly -- he was/is ... the man is a genius).

If anything we moved MORE towards sketch. Every show had a scripted scene between every or every two improv skits. The format worked really well for our group. It gave us a steady stream of guaranteed laughs and let us focus on the improv skits that we did best (there were almost no singing skits performed my senior year).
My understanding is that the new generation went back to an all improv format -- thereby making the purists like J-Ice and Randy happy. I only had one year to reshape the group, give me a break (and Steve and Rich didn't exactly fall into line).

We secretly replaced Dave and Felipe's butts with magnets, let's see if they notice. Good times, good times.

18/11/04 9:11 AM  

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