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{{Infobox Show
|Name = Crack!
|Picture= Crack!.jpg
|Theater= [[Salvage Vanguard Theater]]
|Producer= {{Unbulleted List|[[Gnap! Theater Projects]] | [[The Puppet Improv Project]]}}
|Director = [[Sara Farr]]
|Cast = {{Unbulleted list| [[Alexander Hilary]] | [[Andreas Fabis]] | [[Heidi Rogers]] | [[Jayme Ramsay]] | [[Jessica Arjet]] | [[Lacy Shawn]] | [[Madeline Malka]] | [[Marc Majcher]] | [[Peter Rogers]] | [[Ryan Austin]]}}
|Run = Aug 2010
}}
'''''Crack!''''' (full name: ''Crack! The Improvised Puppet Musical'') was an improvised puppet musical.


"Crack!" debuted Thanksgiving weekend, 2009, and returned to SVT for a run of 6 shows in August, 2010. The show is created by mixing highly volatile puppet characters with a band of uninhibited improvisers. The result is a hilarious variety of songs, scenes in Act 1, and a completely improvise musical in Act 2 -- all conceived and performed on the spot and starring puppets. This is not your average puppet show, and it is definitely NOT a show for young children.
== Summary ==
It was a two-act show, featuring short-form songs and scenes in act one, and then an improvised narrative musical in act two.


Website: [http://puppetimprovproject.org/crack.html]
The show debuted Thanksgiving weekend, 2009, and returned to SVT for a run of 6 shows in August, 2010.
 
=== Guests ===
Each performance had a (human) guest for the night, while all the other performers improvised through modified sock puppets with rod armatures.  Sometimes, larger puppets, such as full-body puppets, were used as well.
 
Here is a list of guests for each show:
* 8/6/10: [[Albert Im]]
* 8/7/10: [[Arthur Simone]]
* 8/13/10: [[Les McGehee]]
* 8/14/10: [[John Ratliff]]
* 8/20/10: [[L. B. Deyo]]
* 8/21/10: [[Shana Merlin]]
 
 
=== Press Description ===
The show is created by mixing highly volatile puppet characters with a band of uninhibited improvisers. The result is a hilarious variety of songs and scenes in Act 1, and a completely improvise musical in Act 2 -- all conceived and performed on the spot and starring puppets. This is not your average puppet show, and it is definitely NOT a show for young children.
 
 
== Media ==
* The 8/6/10 performance:
** [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1325506949633.2039669.1589679282&type=3 Photoset] by [[Roy Moore]].
** Video by [[Sara Farr]], in four parts: [http://vimeo.com/16455732 1], [http://vimeo.com/16456196 2], [http://vimeo.com/16456760 3], [http://vimeo.com/16456886 4].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1328148975682.2039874.1589679282&type=3 Photoset of the 8/7/10 show] by [[Roy Moore]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1330395951855.2040063.1589679282&type=1 Photoset of the 8/14/10 show] by [[Roy Moore]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1333129940203.2040265.1589679282&type=1 Photoset of the 8/14/10 show] by [[Roy Moore]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1336635907850.2040545.1589679282&type=3 Photoset of the 8/20/10 show] by [[Roy Moore]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1339599941949.2040804.1589679282&type=1 Photoset of the 8/21/10 show] by [[Roy Moore]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150258545585324.492830.503270323&type=3 Photoset that includes ''Crack!'''s set] from [[Out of Bounds]] 2012 by [[Kevin Miller]].
 
== More Information ==
* [http://puppetimprovproject.org/crack.html The show's website.]

Revision as of 21:47, 8 April 2013


Crack! (full name: Crack! The Improvised Puppet Musical) was an improvised puppet musical.

Summary

It was a two-act show, featuring short-form songs and scenes in act one, and then an improvised narrative musical in act two.

The show debuted Thanksgiving weekend, 2009, and returned to SVT for a run of 6 shows in August, 2010.

Guests

Each performance had a (human) guest for the night, while all the other performers improvised through modified sock puppets with rod armatures. Sometimes, larger puppets, such as full-body puppets, were used as well.

Here is a list of guests for each show:


Press Description

The show is created by mixing highly volatile puppet characters with a band of uninhibited improvisers. The result is a hilarious variety of songs and scenes in Act 1, and a completely improvise musical in Act 2 -- all conceived and performed on the spot and starring puppets. This is not your average puppet show, and it is definitely NOT a show for young children.


Media

More Information