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Try This Week of Spontaneous Improve

Those zany kids at Improv Everywhere staged a surprise musical at a Queens supermarket. This is your new theme song that will play in your head every time you're at the grocery store fondling some apples.


YOU can be improvisational too! We'll start off easy, then work toward the more flamboyant. Here are a list of spontaneous actions you can do this week:

Monday - Anytime you hear the word "amen," slip in a subtle or outrageous "Hallelujah!"

Tuesday - Anytime you hear a loud noise like a bell, hit the deck like a veteran with PTS. Make up whatever story/explanation you want at that point.

Wednesday - If you see someone listening to their personal music player [iPod] start dancing around them. If they take their earplugs out, compliment them on their taste in music.

Thursday - Start a conversation with someone in line. Make up a huge, elaborate story [lie] that takes like two minutes to tell that ends with "but the judge let me off the hook because of my mental disorder." Then go cross-eyed.

Friday - 100 HIGH FIVES!

Saturday (Halloween) - Make up your own! Your props will include your singing voice and your neighbors.

(Be sure to report back to me if you take the "Improv Challenge.")

Comments

  1. wow sounds totally out of my comfort zone.

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  2. this would work better if I were around more people than just my kids. I have a feeling the Amen, hallelujah thing could have lasting effects.

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