New Jersey      2006

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Very appropriately, this week's Drama Show was entitled "Thursday Night Live".  A parody of Saturday Night Live, this show featured a series of sketches performed by campers, and also included a few dances.

Outside, crowds waited in anticipation for the door to the Little Theater of Centenary College to open.

Inside in the dressing room, actors and actresses were going over lines in their heads, and trying to release the butterflies that flew within their stomachs.

Performing Arts Coordinator Amanda M. came on stage first to introduce the show.

The sketches were simple-the sets were not elaborate: in fact, many of them simply involved a table, a chair, or a teacup. 

One skit featured a made up prop game show.  In it, the hosts would ask the audience for suggestions for props to use.  "I think I heard broom," said one of the hosts.  Luckily, they had a broom on stage with them.

And so, they acted out uses for a broom.  Uses included phones, toothbrushes, and an array of other ways one might use a broom other than to sweep an unsatisfactory act off of stage.

Another skit featured a boy who put his gum on a chair, hoping to come back to it.

The piece of gum went through a lot, including being sat on, stepped on, and being returned to its original place.

The boy had no idea why the crowd moaned as he placed the actual; piece of gum back in his mouth.

In between acts, as the stage crew set up behind the curtain, inanimate objects like a chair were cheered for no apparent reason.  During the first show, there was even a Chair Chant.

Next was a Campus Kids version of Blind Date.  In it, the two people dating seem to have a normal date, with one exception--there are two people controlling their arms behind them.  Their hand gestures rarely matched their facial expressions, and at the end, the person behind one of them quits, and the armless date is left up to his own devices.

Perhaps the cutest skit in the show was the ten times machine.  Two people stumble upon a box that, if you put something in it, will spit out ten times the amount of whatever it might be.  First, a dime turned into a dollar.  Then a bag of Fritos turned into Frito pie.  Finally, Caroline spit into the hole, and was rapidly doused in water.

A simple, yet brilliantly acted skit was put on with two campers playing typical elderly people, who are expecting their granddaughter. 

In a skit entitled "Twilight Zone Hospital", a group of would-be patients are waiting to see a doctor.  Each of them has a peculiar disorder.  "I used to be indecisive," said one.  "But now I'm not sure."  Another compared himself to the economy-a hairline in recession, an inflated waistline, and an overall mood in depression.

The unofficial master of ceremonies, after a quick shake of the booty, gave directions for the rest of the night.

Thanks to the hard work of the entire Drama Staff, and the stage crew, without whose work shows would not function, the evening was a huge success.