To be specific, Carlow University was putting on a dance recital for the school's dance troup. The theme was "A Night At The Movies", and all of the songs they played were featured on soundtracks of various movies.
We were asked to perform some type of short skit to fill a few minutes for the dancers to get changed. Throughout the night and intermissions, we wandered around the hallways, lobby and rode the elevator while pretending to scan with our PKEs and other instruments. This garnered a lot of double takes and looks of confusion, and questions of "Do you guys really get ghosts?"; we played our part and told people that we were just here doing our job, giving the place a routine spook check.
When it came time for our skit (which, as Brad stated, we hope to have a video of at some point), We made our grand entrance into the auditorium by "kicking in" the door from the lobby -- however the doors opened into the lobby, making kicking the door open impossible, and thus began our schtick: An attention grabbing bang followed by squabbilng "You can't kick a door in when it opens the opposite way you moron!" "I was making sure there was nothing behind it when we went in, BRANDON."
From there we walking down the aisle, saying things like "No need to worry, folks, just the Ghostbusters" "Routine spook check, its typical thing in this area of the city" etc. Once we got up to the stage, we introduced ourselves, and informed the audience that we had been checking the auditorium and surrounding campus areas over the course of the night and frankly we hadn't detected squat. Fed up with finding nothing, we "just wanna...DANCE", and with a point to the south booth they played a song for us -- Swan Lake. After a second of "now what" looks to one another, we danced around ballet style like a bunch of goofs, attempting to slow dance with proton packs. As we play our fourth member comes from off stage, slimed and brandishing a basebal bat.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" he asked, "I'm back there fighting some flying, green, booger thing and you're out here
with the proton packs, dancing like a bunch of morons and i'm trying to capture this thing with a BASEBALL BAT?! You're all terrible!" and off the stage he went.
Looking towards the audience, we decided that "We should probably help him....or" and with another point we boogied down to Wilson Pickett's Land of A Thousand Dances (which some of you may remember from The Great Outdoors) and back came our fourth member, pulling us off stage.
It went over really well, the audience was laughing, clapping, and generally enjoying our skit. Afterwards we were pleased to hear that they were all pretty impressed with what we had whipped up. Definitely a good night.
Plenty of pictures available on our Facebook page.
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