The Other Side of The Tracks: Live from The Detroit Improv Festival
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes all back to Spontaneanation, recorded in front of a LIVE audience at The Detroit Improv Festival! This week, Pauls special guest is actor, improviser, and SPONT regular Craig Cackowski! They chat about whether or not Craig still eats pudding as an adult, why scissors are not ideal but still better than the mouth, and which food Craig would like to acquire a taste for now. Paul is then joined by Nyima Funk, Nancy Hayden, and Marc Evan Jackson, to improvise a story set at The Other Side of The Tracks. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
See Spontaneanation LIVE at the Now Hear This Festival on October 30th & at Largo on November 5th! Get your tickets at paulftompkins.com/live!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to you. Welcome to you. Welcome to you. Welcome even to you. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, a special welcome somebody in the front row. She blew me a kiss. |
| 0:39.3 | A charming, old-fashioned gesture. |
| 0:42.3 | I can also hear people backstage in the monitor. |
| 0:47.3 | It's unnerving. |
| 0:54.6 | Because what if I dream those people back there? |
| 0:59.0 | And then I introduced them and nobody comes out. |
| 1:02.3 | And then we're all trapped in an old photo. |
| 1:12.5 | Now here's the thing. |
| 1:15.1 | At the end of the shining. |
| 1:22.9 | Was he frozen outside? |
| 1:25.6 | Or was he trapped in an old photo? |
| 1:28.7 | Had he always been there? |
| 1:30.0 | And if so, |
| 1:32.0 | what? |
| 1:40.7 | I'm sorry, but I have some notes on the Shining. |
| 1:46.2 | Oh, if only they'd make a documentary where I could explain all my theories. |
| 1:52.2 | Does anybody see that fucking thing? |
| 1:56.0 | But not like the whole thing, right? |
| 1:59.0 | You quit when I did, 10 minutes in, when you realize, oh, I see what's going to happen |
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