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Jed Kronfeld

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"This is the stuff that needs to be broadcast for the whole planet to enjoy. The only people who wouldn’t like it are people who live backwards lives and put shoes on their hands"

I am an addict.  I’ve spent a shocking amount of time and money on my addiction, refusing to wean myself off of it.  I am hooked on the euphoric drug that is Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (T.M.L.M.T.B.G.B.).  You know how with most media, you can internalize everything that there is to be internalized in one sitting, with no real need to take part in it again?  The New York Neo-Futurists have made sure that that will never be the case if you are to ever go see T.M.L.M.T.B.G.B.  A friend invites you, you love it, come back for more, get hooked, recruit your own friends, and the circle never breaks, but only broadens.

The format of the show sounds almost like an old show from the ‘60s:  there are 30 plays the 6 members wrote, they have exactly an hour to perform them, and the audience gets to choose the order.  If the clock runs out before they’re done, they stop, but if they finish them all, they cheer and announce how many minutes of your time they saved.  After that, they check if there are any empty seats.  If they sell out, they buy everyone in the audience pizza, [click to continue….]

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It goes without saying that the soul of any musical is music.  The Total Bent, however, is not a traditional song-and-dance musical, where characters directly express themselves through lyrics. The Total Bent is more like This Is Spinal Tap; about the creation and production of music, that also includes loads of original music.  The Total Bent is a play whose definition is a bit ambiguous. [click to continue….]

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