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[filkertom]

I would've SO joined in, and I don't even LIKE The Sound of Music:

(h/t Peter David)

Improv Everywhere has done things like this, of course. If you were doing a musical number in public, either choreographed or if you suddenly find yourself in what Space-Time Theater called "The Hammerstein Zone", what would it be?

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[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

Virginia reel or some similar tune with a square dance caller on site.

[jenrose]

It doesn't matter how many times I see Food Court Musical, I still crack up.

The Janitor. The Security Man. OMG.

The Sound of Music was cute, but after about the 30th person joined in, there weren't any more surprises.

[yaspis.livejournal.com]

I'd do 'Hot Patootie' from Rocky Horror, or if I had an accomplice, 'Damnit Janet' ... on a big honking staircase, preferably. Or maybe an escalator. Hmm. 'Time Warp' everybody knows, and would probably make one hell of a crowd number like the one in the video.

And then there's Silence! the musical, of course, which I know by heart but really isn't PG enough for public performance. :D

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Personally I'd do the old Sesame Street number "Sing a Song". I've always loved it and its an uplifting song. :)

Btw Happy Easter all and God bless.

[jenrose]

We do Sing A Song around our house spontaneously.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

That's very cool :)

I sing it myself from time to time to cheer myself up when I get too far down.

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

I think that's stunningly hilarious! Just the on-going fun of it really makes me smile. It's even more fun because several of my friends are choreographers who have put plays in the local Fringe Festival.

I am definitely putting this in my LJ too! :)

Thanks, Tom!

[roane.livejournal.com]

Ok, this is probably silly, but I totally got chills watching this. Just seeing how many people there were... it was just awesome. I love Improv Everywhere so much. :)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I suspect it would be the Time Warp.

I would like it to be either "Luck Be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls or "It's Too Darn Hot" from Kiss Me Kate (particularly the recent stage version, which is awesome).

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

I've been in too many musicals... I know how much time it takes to stage things. I would LOVE to randomly have people burst into song and dance and have everyone join in. It would make life that much more worth living. Instead, I'll settle for doing this upcoming musical review and warning the other singers that my kids are going to be joining them. (They did during the last one.)

There was an episode of Rocko's modern life that was a musical. Rocko walked out and everyone was singing. He was all WTF, and Heiffer said, "Didn't you see the signs? We've had rehearsals every Thursday."

[zellion.livejournal.com]

It would make life that much more worth living
*sigh* Yes.

I'm totally with you. That was the best part about doing musical theater in high school; months later you could start singing one of the pieces and everyone would be willing to jump in on their parts with choreography included.

My husband is not a fan of musicals; he is unable to retain his suspension of disbelief when people burst into song because - so he says- it just doesn't happen in real life. Me, I think I internalized too much PBS - Zoobilie Zoo, Sesame Street, Square One TV.... What you mean people don't randomly burst into song about subtraction? They do it all the time in my world.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

"Life Is", from Zorba.

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

How about "Zorba's Dance" instead?

[devospice.livejournal.com]

Was that Improv Everywhere, or someone else? I have the greatest respect for Improv Everywhere. The stuff they do is remarkable.

[jss]

This one's a someone else. It's guerilla advertising for a new TV network or something (I don't know if it's speficially Belgian or pan-European).

[zellion.livejournal.com]

It was Tmobile as far as I understood it.

[spotshouse.livejournal.com]

Thriller

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

That was wonderful.

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

Probably Capercaille's "Coisich Haruin" done with the Afro-Celt sound that Capercaillie created.

That being said, oh, the choreography and stuff. I'm not sure how I'd react if I were to see this in a train station or an airport terminal, for that matter.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

I would've SO joined in, and I don't even LIKE The Sound of Music:
What if it was Fiddler on the roof? LOL
I'd probably choose 'Seasons of Love from Rent.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

If you were doing a musical number in public, either choreographed or if you suddenly find yourself in what Space-Time Theater called "The Hammerstein Zone", what would it be?

"La Vie Boheme" from RENT could practically be done as is.

Sudden thought: "The Mustard" from Buffy: "Once More with Feeling." Just the part we know, no trying to write the rest of the song. Actually, that could be an Improv Everywhere project...slowly gather the crowd, then wait for the right moment, and bam! Fifteen seconds of song, and out.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Fame

Thriller with zombies.

San Francisco (Open Your Golden Gate) in Union Square at lunch time.

[sazettel.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was just _nifty_.

There's so many ways one could go with this. Mischevious: "A Little Priest," from Sweeny Todd done in a food court.

Predictable: "Lullaby of Broadway" from 42nd Street, anywhere in NYC, or "All That Jazz," from Chicago anywhere in the Windy City.

Sentimental: "A Place for Us," from West Side Story at any train station or plane terminal.

Humorous: "Nothin' like a Dame," in drag, from South Pacific.

But I think for your basic large public space I'd have to go with "Shall We Dance?" from The King and I.

Not that I like musicals much or anything.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

The Seattle Women's Chorus (which includes one of my sisters) is doing a concert series right now around Broadway show tunes, with choreography. This included "Nothing Like A Dame". (In drag, of course.)

[zellion.livejournal.com]

I've seen a LOT of really really great suggestions here. Now the question is, at what con are we going to wander over to a mall or something to get together and try it?

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

OVFF, but Only if I'm not alone in it . . .

[enjis.livejournal.com]

Gosh....I would love to be in any street musical that involved The Music Man....it's my favorite. That being said, I thought this was a wonderful piece, and I love The Sound of Music! I love Improv Everywhere, and think it's great how they get everyone involved in what they are doing.
Bringing a little music into an every day situation is cool beyond words!

[persis.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Tom. :-)

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

in what Space-Time Theater called "The Hammerstein Zone"

Space-Time may have given you your first exposure to "The Hammerstein Zone", but the sketch originated in Moebius Theatre (as did many of the performers in Space-Time). Moebius also had the wonderful "One Afternoon On The Evanston Express", in which a homeless guy starts out singing a solo version of "My Kind Of Town" and eventually manages to get about ten other people in an El car to do a huge production number of "Mack the Knife". I played the homeless guy once.

[jenrose]

Did you see this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nbkbss7i5s

Best. Prank. Ever.

Jumbotron! Blimp! Hotdogs! Little League!

[enjis.livejournal.com]

That was so wonderful, it makes me cry!

[madamruppy.livejournal.com]

If I can't be part at least I want to be there to see one of these things. *pout pout pout*

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

Years ago at Marcon, some of the Kligons were dressed in hula skirts and coconut shells (you had to be there) and we started to fantasize about a Kligon production of "South Pacific" and then Kligon nuns in "The Sound of Music"..The plot lines would have to be severely altered...

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

"Luck Be A Lady."