A live act that visibly falls apart can be the winning act
Evidence
When it was my turn, I took the stage like a pro and began to sing and drip, and drip and sing. “It’s wilting the quilting in my Maiden Form and mascara flows all down my nose because of the storm.” As I sang, I plucked the tissues out from my bra, one by one, to wipe the running mascara off my cheeks. “I don’t even have my corsage, oh gee! It fell down a sewer with my sister’s ID.” As my cup size diminished I had Rip Taylor, the judges, and the audience in stitches. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 22
Categorization
- XREF: The escalating staged mishap is a good physical-comedy comparison with the reader’s sense of craft and audience dynamics from performance-writing sources. — connects to: The $1.98 Beauty Show deliberately staged amateurish acts for comedy — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 19; A beauty contestant can win parody contests by embracing what disqualifies her — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 23; Performance art failures could read as successful participatory theater. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1279 (+2 more)
Related
- A prop that visibly transforms mid-performance can carry a comedy act (similarity 0.84)
- The $1.98 Beauty Show deliberately staged amateurish acts for comedy (similarity 0.80)
- Performance art failures could read as successful participatory theater. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Performance art failures could read as successful participatory theater.
#expands(0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1279