Posted by Luke on May 22, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
The star train is off and running. This week we add-
Monster Avenue. Its a big glorious musical number with tap dancing ghosts. Tap dancing ghosts!
Also, we are adding Untitled (Lunch Lady Slob).
It starts with the stage direction: (slob drop). What happens after that? You will have to come and witness…
$2 off password at the box office is going to be “slob drop”, naturally.
Here is the order of events and amusements-
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Posted by Bradford on May 21, 2011
School Shows
So what does it take to make a awesome Barrel of Monkeys Show. An amazing cast, one fantastic director, and most importantly; some incredible stories from the super talented kids at the Dixon School. Throw it in a pot, mix it all together, let it simmer for 6 rehearsals…. and before you know it; you have yourself one stupendous masterpiece for all the world to see.
First day of rehearsal for the Dixon show, and I have to say, we have a few classics on our hands already. Geoff, as a wacky, elderly grandma showering in a tired a bath, Tai as a goofy Knight, fighting imaginary foes in the alley, or yours truly trying to do the latest dances all the kids know and love; like The Dougie, The Swag, and The Reject….. if that doesn’t get you fired up to check out the show this Friday, I don’t know what will.
So mark it on your calendars my friends, and come on out to the Dixon Show. Cause it’s gonna to be GREAT baby!!!
Posted by Philip on May 18, 2011
School Shows
The following shocking news article may or may not be based on real stories from the Lincolnwood School show. Viewer discretion is advised.
EVIL HENCHMAN and BARREL OF MONKEYS COMPANY MEMBER - TIM SOSZKO, aka “Dr. Big Brain,” FOILED IN ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER WORLD.
Reporting from Chicago Police Department.
This just announced folks - you can sleep easy at night, as police have finally apprehended the world wide evil henchman, DR. BIG BRAIN, thanks to the help of a young girl and a horse with the body of a horse and the head of a monkey. Who is this girl? Why, the lovely and mysterious Kate Staiger , who managed to dip Dr. Big Brain’s plans for worldwide destruction in chocolate water, we can sleep safe at night.
We have obtained a copy of his mugshot - do not be fooled by the cheery exterior - he is a MADMAN:
And one of our reporters was on hand to snap a shot of him being taken into custody:
Those handcuffs were real, folks! So real that the police took about 15 minutes back at the station trying to find the key to unlock them.
Dr. Big Brain has apparently not fared so well in jail as he awaits trial. It seems he only kept up such a cheery exterior with daily applications of make-up. This is how he really looks after only a few short days in custody:
Hideous!
Stay tuned for the dramatic trial, featuring an impressive line-up of friends and enemies scheduled to testify - including Derrick Rose’s Pet Monkey, Dr. Evil and his cousin Serial Killer Squirrel, Jacob the Beastie Kid, the superhero Squeagle, and of course the influential trio of spare change - “Moneyus, Moneyus, Moneyus”
WILL DR. BIG BRAIN GO TO JAIL OR WILL HE GET OFF SCOTT FREE!
ONLY TIME WILL TELL!
Posted by Luke on May 15, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Friends of the internets,
That’s Weird, Grandma continues to swell with greatness. We took out Untitled (Beach) because, let’s face it, does anyone even know who Demi Lovato is anymore?
I don’t. But I never really did. Demi, we never knew ya.
Joining the show this week are:
I am a Dragon
And
The Limo Party. The Limo Party has a lot of celebrity appearances, but they are more recognizable celebrities to a 20-37 something crowd than Demi Lovato.
I’m sorry, Demi Lovato. I don’t know what you did to deserve my ambivalence on this blog post, except star in a Disney Channel show I’ve never seen cause I can’t afford cable.
Password for $2 off this week is “Demi Lovato”.
Be there.
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Posted by Brennan on May 12, 2011
School Shows
After School Program
Good Night and Good Luck,
Right!!?
All right now, be real everyone.
So. In an effort to stay focused on the topic at hand—that being: Poetry Show Sweetness 
—I have made an official Poetry Show Viewer Checklist. (ps—Was it a weird or a regular thing that throughout my boyhood schooling, I was always taught that the way to write was “Ayn Rand Style?” Which really just meant that, in order to stay organized with your ideas, you wrote your sentences in this order: fact-opinion-opinion, fact-opinion-opinion. Over and over again. This brings up a couple of questions. One, why did that teaching fail in such a large, large way? (Please see current attempt, and immediate failure, to stay on topic.) And two, why would that be called Ayn Rand style? Are all one million of the pages in Atlas Shrugged fact-opinion-opinion?) (Last note: There is an 87% chance that I am remembering this incorrectly. Stay in school kids. Don’t do drugs.) 
All right. Welp, here’s two opinions for you, Ayn. The Poetry Show rules. Boom, one. But whoops, that was also a fact. It was both. And two, if one were to come and see the Poetry show, this person would feel like an awesome tree had fallen on them and smashed their ribs, but they would like it, because an awesome tree is nothing like a regular tree when falling on a person. An awesome tree fills whatever part of your body it lands on with strength and hope. You telling me you don’t want ribs full of hope, Ayn? Ok then. You think about it. 
Let’s get to it. The following is a checklist for you to print out and bring with you to the Poetry Show this Saturday. Then you play a game kind of like looking at license plates and shouting out what state they say on them, and kind of like being on a scavenger hunt while sitting in a chair. The game is called: spot all of the checklist items up there on the sweet Poetry Show stage.
Without further nonsense:
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