Legs and All
Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante
NY,U.S.A.
Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante
“A physical exploration of limits, perspective and chocolate cake. Rooted in physical comedy and set to music, it takes a magical look at the mundane where two people stumble into the extraordinary. It peeks at human loneliness and hits up against reality’s glass ceiling to poke about in the breathing space beyond.”
50min
UNDER St. Marks
Fri 2/26,6:00 PM,Sun 2/28,1:00 PM,Mon 3/01,7:30 PM,Wed 3/03,7:30 PM,Fri 3/05,9:00 PM,Sat 3/06,8:30 PM
$15.00,$12.00
Summer Shapiro – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedienne
Summer Shapiro, a San Francisco Clown Conservatory graduate and current Climate Theater resident artist, in the last year has written and performed three original physical comedy shows, which toured to San Francisco, Hawaii and New York. In July 2008 she premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir at the Climate Theater sharing the bill with Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John Gilkey. The show continued on to headline at the WOW Festival in 2009. Summer’s show with clown colleague April Wagner, PANTS! The Best Show Ever, sold out in the 2008 New York and San Francisco Clown Theater Festivals. Summer was in a trapeze clown duo in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles, by Paoli Lacy showcasing at the Magic Theater in October, 2007. Summer was a performer and artist in residence in The Medea Project: Theatre For Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones in 2006. Summer has trained, performed and taught her craft in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ireland. She holds a B.A. in acting from UCLA’s School of Theater.
Peter Musante – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedian
Peter Musante is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician currently performing Off-Broadway in Blue Man Group. As a Blue Man, he’s worked in Chicago, Boston, Orlando, Bogotá, Colombia and can be seen in ad campaigns all over Las Vegas and Brazil. Out of blue, he develops/leads workshops in kinesthetic awareness and works as a teaching artist for The New Victory theater. He’s also taught improvisation to kids, improvised in drag at Universal Studios Hollywood, crooned cowboy tunes in Tokyo, worked as a standardized patient for medical students and most recently, developed sensory workshops for children with autism. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theater in 2005, he played Huck Finn in Big River at Vista, California’s Moonlight Amphitheater and won the San Diego Theater Critic’s Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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It was wonderful to see really good, sophisticated physical comedy. Ms. Shapiros’s hands seemed to be a third/fourth character/s, with a life/lives, and a will/s of their own. At times, we felt we were watching “live animation.” (We hope that makes sense to anyone else.) Imaginative, innovative, surprising, magical, thought provoking and delightful. Extremely talented performers. And, we must admit, this is not usually our cup of tea – but we loved it. (We saw it at a later date than Terry – see review above – and it ran like clockwork.
k9prXB Good point. I hadn’t thought about it quite that way. :)
These performers are talented as hell, but I thought the show needed a lot of polish. The musical cues often seemed to come late or were wrong (ie, stopped suddenly, then came back later). I think a lot of practice this could be tight but right now it only has the natural ability of the performers, who are formidable, to recommend it.
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Just finished writing up this show, and I cannot recommend it enough. One of the best shows I’ve seen all year; the two actors certainly have enough control and charm to be doing the same show (or to be working in another physical comedy) in front of a much bigger audience. They deserve it.
everyone GO SEE THIS SHOW. it’s full of raw joy and really tender, true moments between two performers whose love of the material makes you clasp and wring your hands in excitement. it’s the kind of show that makes you glad you have a body, glad you can move it, and makes you giddy with its potential.