As the saying goes, you just had to be there.
Absolunacy gave their last performance of the semester Saturday night, saying farewell to senior members Matt Vancuren and Casey Kayser, both graduating this month.
Rather than booming off to a loud start, the troupe trudged on stage carrying candles to the song Carol of the Bells played by freshman Joe Williams on the piano. Trying their hand at black comedy, they all chimed together, out of tune, yelling to the audience how "you're gonna die!" A couple of members stood up to the microphone, giving their take on freak-accident deaths.
They did warn the audience the show was to be risque. It was a sick twist to the holiday season.
They were right, but that didn't stop the laughter - gross-funny is always better than clean-funny. Although some kids in the audience probably didn't get the jokes, the moms probably should have covered their ears, especially when freshman Chris Meek picked up the acoustic guitar and strummed about his "Phone Sex Goddess."
The show picked up from there and was loud, upbeat and feverish.
And like any Absolunacy show, the troupe members involved the audience as much as humanly possible, especially during the skit when Aaron Marsh portrayed Levar Burton from "Reading Rainbow" and asked for audience members to give titles of children's books that were never published. From the audience came titles like "Harry Potter and the Adventure of the Magic Bong."
Nothing is funnier than watching the audience's sick ideas come to life with the imagination of Absolunacy.
Audience members were also told to "boo" and scream "die" whenever Abso troupe members messed up during a skit or if they didn't like the ad-libing that took place, in which the troupe member "lost" the skit.
One of the "rehearsed" skits was freshman Wes Hanley and his wrestling match with a trash can. He crushed it, kicked it, rode it and in the end, put it over his head and keeled over on stage. The audience got to vote on who won. The trash can did.
"It's so sad to see the trash can win," Kayser said. She took the microphone and before she sang about her precious E chord. Someone in the audience asked if there was an intermission because she had to use the bathroom. Kayser talked back and said her song was basically an intermission and thanked the audience member for her politeness.
Absolunacy finished off by letting Vancuren and Kayser take the stage in one last skit called "Love Letters," where the two of them portrayed a romantic relationship between a professor and a teacher's assistant. This was the evening's funniest skit, in which the love letters took a turn for the worst when the audience wanted to hear more about "Madame Testicle and her chode."
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