princely improv!

Sadly, Prince was not at the Space Station of Starlandia.
However, Dan of SiC was, and he had donned his best purple to spin Prince's tunes for us!
Tonight was not "Front Porch Improv", but was the "Sorry Not Sorry" version.
Here's how this night of long-form worked.
First, a song title was requested of the audience, then Dan would cue it up.
While it was purple-fying the air, the three players on stage would relate a personal story or memory related to that song (or not).
Then, they would launch into a series of skits, sometimes involving other players, for the next fifteen or twenty minutes.
This was repeated twice, at which time the hour-long performance time was over.

Mine was the first suggestion taken.
"Kiss", I had shouted!
The three guys on stage started relating to the song.
One spoke of saying he liked Prince's music because that's what attracted the girls.
Another had discovered the Purple One's tunes only at his death, but liked to hear them when he showered.
The third was a jock growing up and had only liked pop tunes.
Then we were transported, justthatfast, to a teen dance scene, with the first guy trying to pick up a girl (the middle guy) while her girlfriend (the jock) encouraged them. Then we flash to the girl's parents at home, changing light-bulbs in the basement, talking about their teen romance during the reign of Elvis, getting "All Shook Up"! They're getting frisky when the girl comes home... hahahha!

"Raspberry Beret" was the second song chosen!
Now the stage continued Brienne, another woman, and a different guy.
Brienne talked about the time she shaved her head for twenty bucks while in college. She also mentioned that she had walked into a store that had that song on the overhead music and she landed a job just because she sang the song so well!
I forget what the other woman's story was; the guy offered a tale about picking blueberries for fifteen minutes after his mom had driven two hours in the wrong direction from the farm, then had to drive back those two hours, plus two more, and got pulled over by a cop.
Next thing you know, we're picking blueberries! Then we have the bald chick wander into a store to buy deodorant with her twenty bucks, a store that happens to sell wigs, too! A guy comes in, mistakes the bald girl for a cancer patient and hands the store owner some money to help them out. Light-bulb moment! The nearly-closed store is able to hire the bald girl and stay open!

The final song of the evening was "When Doves Cry".
I recall tales of a guy hunting with his soon-to-be father-in-law and another one about feeding birds.
Then the improv began! A couple feeding doves at a park, with the girl telling the guy, for the first time, that she loves him and him talking about his love for Esmeralda, his favorite dove! A magician finally manages to pull a dove out of his hat, and then opts to saw his assistant in half as his next act! Two suburbanites go for hunting lessons, ending up charming birds out of sky and right into the path of a hunter!
At some point, someone spoke of reading "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"!
And someone else talked about "science!"
Kevin really liked that, too! He was there with his Derby Devil!

Such a logical progression of song titles, too, for a date night... wasn't it?
(smile)
Coincidence....?
(smile!)

And here's a cool video I stumbled upon whilst searching for the above songs.
Prince? On "Muppets Tonight"? How cool is that?
And here's another one, with Prince making up a song about food!
And now I have to go!
Scott is in town from Alabama and I'm the last one on his list for this visit.
Bye, y'all!