We Cause Scenes
We’ve had several requests over the past few weeks for the music and lyrics of our Food Court Musical. We’ve just uploaded a “zip” file with an mp3 of the orchestrated backing track we used in the food court, an mp3 of the song played on piano, and a PDF of the complete lyrics to the song. This should be everything you need to stage the song on your own. Unfortunately no sheet music exists.
“Can I Get a Napkin (Please?)” is by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The song was arranged by Jamie Laboz.
There are a few new global missions to report from groups organized on our IE Global site:
In the meantime the global freeze phenomenon continues. New freezes have taken place in Barcelona, Paris, Shanghai, and Prague. We’ve been keeping a comprehensive list of all of the freeze missions. The current count is 40 events in 22 different countries.
We’ve also received a bit of recent press. We were featured on German television, Al Jazeera English, and PRI’s Fair Game.
For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall. We used wireless microphones to amplify the vocal performances and mix them together with the music through the mall’s PA system. We filmed the mission with hidden cameras, mostly behind two-way mirrors. Apart from our performers, no one in the food court was aware of what was happening. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
(YouTube link)
song by Scott Brown and Anthony King; arranged by Jamie Laboz
A few new missions to report from our IE Global site. The first is from Scene Diego, the local IE Global group out in San Diego, CA. They got 7 agents to infiltrate a Starbucks and then fall asleep.
The IE Global group in Singapore also staged a “sleeping in public” mission, getting a dozen or so agents to fall asleep by a public fountain.
Finally, one more from Scene Diego, 70 agents use a “banana phone” in a San Diego mall.
Thanks to Global Agent J.A. Riley from Atlanta for designing the new Improv Everywhere Global graphic, seen above.
The New Museum is hosting a discussion about Improv Everywhere this Friday evening at 7:30 in their theatre space. Moderator Scott Brown (writer for Wired, Entertainment Weekly, and co-author of Gutenberg! The Musical!) will lead a discussion with Improv Everywhere Senior Agents Charlie Todd (founder), Chad Nicholson (photographer), and Jamey Shafer (videographer.)
We’ll also be debuting a new video at this show. It should be a fun event. Come see us if you’re looking for something do this Friday in Manhattan. It’s $8 ($6 for New Museum members.)
