Friday, April 20th 2012

Musicians Chase Ceglie
and Mikel Arambarri-Bellagamba

Joining regular musician Chase Ceglie was Mikel Arambarri-Bellagamba on guitar for tonight’s show.  Also back to entertain the Firehouse Theatre crowds for this weekend was fellow Bit, Frank Fusaro.

Frank Fusaro, Vlad Tenenbaum,
Neal Leaheey, John Mulligan
and Dylan Eberle in "Slide Show" to Antartica



Taking us all on an adventure to Antarctica, Frank narrated “Slide Show” where we learned about Eskimo culture, where the natives fight for survival by poking their enemy to the death, not with clubs, but with their fingers.  We also saw the indiginous baby seals during our tour there.  This fact was important as Frank pointed out, “Because you never know when you’re going to go clubbing!”

“Late to Work” a bit where our habitually late worker, John Mulligan needs an excuse yet again, to tell his Boss, Neal Leaheey for his tardiness.  The excuse,  provided through mime by co-worker, Vlad Tenenbaum began while John was driving to work. Astoundingly, John came upon a talking beaver on the side of the road.  Enchanted by the beaver, John  trained it to sing.  Amazed at the beaver’s talents, John realized that he could make some money and decided to sell the beaver on Ebay.  But much to John’s chagrin, the beaver became angry that he was being sold and ate John’s car.  Being  resourceful, John was forced to hunt down a unicorn and ride it to work.

In the second set the audience favorite bit of the night “Good Cop / Bad Cop” saw our incorrigible perpetrator, Neal being guided by Frank and Dylan into confessing to the crime of “Killing Tony the Tiger with a tikki torch, in a confessional”.  It is unclear who was more tortured in this scene.  Was it Neal for not getting the clues?  Or was it Dylan and Frank for working so hard to dole the clues out?  Check out the video “Good Cop/ Bad Cop – “The Tikki Wars” on our YouTube Channel and you decide.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_Hyn14Ypc&context=C4f7c35bADvjVQa1PpcFNlazU-rbbFBdJpiTxFCCe15UH_ofX5gAQ=

Audience member, Wendy is "Serenaded" by the Bit Players

Celebrating a birthday and coaxed by her all-girl posse, audience member Wendy came up on the stage to be “Serenaded” by the Bit Players.  Don’t know if the boys in the back got Wendy’s number or not but they certainly were  interested… especially after learning that Wendy is a CEO of her own company.  Enquiring minds want to know!

Vlad Tenenbaum in
"Art Class"

Vlad, the consummate story-teller through mime, took us all to “Art Class”.  The inspiration for the story’s contents were provided by the audience suggestions of how they interpreted the artwork.  Vlad then wove all of the suggestions of a Balloon, Ice cream, Heart, Egg, Duck, and Lamp into  a mimed story…  (Amusingly, we thought he cheated a little on the lamp… The audience loved it!)

Audience members (Hannah & Emily)
join Frank Fusaro and Dylan Eberle
on stage in "Tap The Audience"

Two young audience members (Hannah and Emily) were asked to join the players on stage in a bit called “Tap The Audience” .  In the scene Hannah and Emily got to fill in the blanks for Frank, the Prosecutor, and Dylan, the Defense Lawyer when the girls were “tapped”.

The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday night at 8:00pm at the Firehouse Theatre, 4 Equality Park Place (off Broadway), Newport, RI 02840.  Please call the box office for reservations   

     401-849-FIRE (3473) 

And as always, it is BYOB!