Archive for March 21st, 2007

Wow, I’m not really sure what to say about Fearsome’s Gungrease, except to say that it was good clean fun- the kind of fun that you can take your mom and grandma to. WAIT! STOP! UNH UH! That’s not right at all. This show was a filthy, guilty pleasure. Sometimes I found myself laughing and then suddenly I would feel all dirty inside. Then, I looked around at the other audience members and realized we were all feeling the same way- everybody was wearing a very guilty grin.

Did they really just say that? Did they really just do that? The last song of the evening was so raunchy that you might actually be a little ashamed of yourself for laughing- sadly (or not so sadly) the song is still running through my head- over and over again.

The Fearsome team worked well as a unit- dynamic in their staging choices, collaborative in their performance. A few note worthy moments were the initial show opening (aka the whole first act). Then, in the 2nd act Chris’s ‘Yeah’ skit was clever and fun. The teams take on Dateline NBC’s Chris Hanson’s Child Sex Offender show was quite comical and fun, but lasted just a tad bit too long.

Fearsome covered the whole gamut- from accidental death, necrophilia, pedophilia, the joys of fathers and sons sharing time together, grown men in diapers, drinking games and even e coli outbreak.

Seriously though, Fearsome you needed an Act 3. Your hour long show was great ride, but I was just getting warmed up. Next time finish me off.

Overall: It’s fun. Go see it with a dirty-minded loved one. It’ll be at the People’s Improv Theatre (the PIT) through April 20th.