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re: Second City "Twist Your Dickins Christmas Carol" @ Kirk Douglas Theater

Posted by: Pir8Jenny 02:34 pm EST 12/11/13
In reply to: Second City "Twist Your Dickins Christmas Carol" @ Kirk Douglas Theater - bicoastal 02:13 pm EST 12/11/13

I saw it last year, and actually thought some of the scripted stuff was better than the improv.

Also, I wasn't really sure how "improv" you can genuinely call that section where they have the audience yell out decades -- as they very likely scripted and rehearsed the ten (or whatever) different versions. Don't get me wrong, I actually thought the jokes they'd written in that area were pretty funny -- it just seemed like a "forced" bit of improv that wasn't really improvised.


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re: Second City "Twist Your Dickins Christmas Carol" @ Kirk Douglas Theater

Posted by: bicoastal 04:14 pm EST 12/11/13
In reply to: re: Second City "Twist Your Dickins Christmas Carol" @ Kirk Douglas Theater - Pir8Jenny 02:34 pm EST 12/11/13

I agree and actually had the same thought re: the decades. Even worse, after the show had their written-in 1980s riff, someone in the audience shouted out "1980s" for the decade. Didn't seem a particularly bright choice.

The only real improv was riffing off of the written "worst things" tags, and those were really no more than random jokes thrown out. In fact, the actors were stumped when the lounge singer character asked for a Christmas song and someone shouted "Do They Know It's Christmas". The actor couldn't recall the tune and there were more jokes about the obscurity of the song than any actual riff on the song.


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