It's been nearly a month between previews, but we've spent the time well. Admittedly most of that was spent making the Superheroes comic, but some time's been spent rejigging the show, and last night's test showed that we're getting there. A very small audience (on a Wednesday, in Ludlow, up against James Acaster starting at exactly the same time) but they were very good, giving just the test we needed and laughing where we wanted them to. Lots of things have moved since last time, a song's been shortened, and we've lost & replaced the Spiderman/Peter Parker song. This is what we gave them.
SUPERHEROES RUNNING ORDER, Weds June 20 2018
(All items good as before unless mentioned)
Opening Batman/Ditko/Flash - slight tweak now even better
I’m A Sock song
Cosmopolitan / Bob Kane
Motion Capture
Scottish Superheroes - moved from later in show, good move
Hulk Ang Lee
Plot/ Maguffin
Batman/ Teeth / etc - moved from later in show, good move
NEW Bechdel Test song - brilliant. So glad I came up with this
Cock Robin
Science/Faraday/Sagan
NEW Helium routine - very good, that's staying
Brother 1
Racist Brother song
Avengers
Avengers Reel
Dr Strange / Wong / Thanos
NEW Wonder Woman routine - good
NEW Fantastic 4 - recast & rewritten, works much better
Thanos / Who’s On First
Superman / JorEl / Kents / Glasses
Dead Ringer song
Brother 2
Science 2
Joker 2
Harley & Ivy
Daredevil - decided this will be cut from the show, not good enough
Brother 3 - needs shortening
What I’ve Learned - needs shortening
NEW All By Myself song - now shortened, much much better
NEW Finale - now short and fast and worked. By golly, our show has an ending!
And we have a new Preview date lined up, on July 5th in Harrow, meaning we have five shows left to polish the hour. At time of writing (the morning after the show) I've already put a new-ish song back into the show, one that we haven't done in these previews but that appears in the comic and that I did back in 2016 and belatedly realise could be perfect. Stay tuned for how that goes down in a couple of weeks time.
The Award Winning* Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are Superheroes at The Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Fringe from August 1st to 26th - ON SALE NOW!
*Winners of the Bath Comedy Festival Lovehoney Best Joke Award 2018
Previews:
*Winners of the Bath Comedy Festival Lovehoney Best Joke Award 2018
Previews:
June 20 - Ludlow Fringe
July 5 - Trinity Bar Harrow
July 11 - Neath Comedy Festival
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