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You're listening to Improfect Paradise, a show about the gap between the dream and reality.

I'm Antonia Serejido, and today I am joined in the studio by my colleague and pal, Victoria

Alejandro. Hi, Victoria. Hello, Antonio. I love being called a pal.

Victoria, you and I recently went on a little field trip together.

So August, we go to the Elysian Theater in Frogtown.

It's like this little black box theater.

I think it's like 100 seats.

It's very old squeaky seats and then a little stage. And you have to imagine

just one full half of this theater, essentially full of people wearing all black and knee pads

waiting for their turn to go up on stage. So what we're going to do now is each of you is going

to come up to the stage. I'm going to play a song and then you're going to come out and dance sincerely

for one minute.

It's a great clown teacher named Chad Damiani

yelling a lot of things

at a room of about 20

improvisers, comedians, writers, actors,

just folks around the city who wanted to get on their feet and try some stuff out.

And we're loudly supportive, yeah?

As you can hear, it wasn't like a big, like, I feel like if I'm like, what's the sound of a clown?

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