Big Show '08: Are you ready for the biggest ever?

Gargoyle photo by Sindha Agha (click to enlarge) Juniors Hannah Leskosky and Alan Liang rehearse the "Burger Burger Burger" skit while senior Andrea Park keeps a straight face in the background. Come to Big Show Friday or Saturday and find out what it's all about!

By Rachel Skoza
Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 8:15pm

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BIG SHOW '08 AT A GLANCE

When: 7 p.m. Friday, May 9, and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 10

Where: North Attic Playhouse

How much: $5, but a $2 discount if you bring paperback dictionaries (any language, please!!) for X-Week's charity, Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners.

What: Big Show is Uni's annual collection of student comedy sketches and video skits. All money raised will go toward UC Books to Prisoners as part of X-Week. For a list of skits to be performed, see below.

Who: Seniors Anna Cangellaris and Eunice How are directing this year's production. For the rest of the cast, see below.

BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST. Can Uni's annual Big Show possibly get any bigger? Each year sides are split from laughter by hilarious sketches written by Uni's finest, but what's in store for us this time around?

At the end of this week, you'll have a chance to discover for yourself what senior Big Show directors Anna Cangellaris and Eunice How have stewed up in their own pot of funny.

This year's show will wrap up X-Week on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the North Attic.

Tickets are $5, but $2 will be knocked off if you bring paperback dictionaries (any language) to donate to Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners, this year's designated charity for X-Week.

There will be a lot more sketches this year, but many of them are very short, unlike last year's longer, more developed sketches.

The 35 sketches (nine of which are video) are the most random scenes you'll feast our eyes on.

"We don't have a theme," says How. "We just go with the flow. Topics include TV show parodies, Harry Potter, great big technology, and the world premiere of a rap music video."

Robbed a whole week of rehearsal time, things have been getting a little crazy behind the scenes. But as their predecessors have always done, this year's directors will pull together an amazing show for Uni audiences this weekend.

So why should students go?

Says How: "To have a splendiferous amount of laughs and to support a great charity!"

Directors
Anna Cangellaris
Eunice How

Contributing Writers
Paul Dampier
Jake Seeley

Cast Members
Josh Chung, senior
Will Erickson, subfreshman
Anna Gooler, sophomore
Julian Hartman, senior
Hannah Leskosky, junior
Alan Liang, junior
Grant Loos, senior
Andrea Park, senior
Adam Tiouririne, junior
Richard Weisbach, junior
Carl Zielinski, senior

Lights
Natsuki Nakamura

Tech Crew
Sindha Agha
Stephanie Overmier
Aramael Pena-Alcantara
Lauren Piester

Live Music
Josh Chung
Julian Hartman
Grant Loos
Carl Zielinski

Part I
Deep Thought
Pardon my French
Burger Burger Burger
This is Self-Referential
FBI
Montana
Anyang Earbuds
Distracted Job Interview
Man vs. Wild
Buy You Drink
Condensed Harry Potter
Shower
The World According to Science: Mating the Grade
TREATED
Very Sad
MTV Music Video World Premiere
Elevator Safety
Rock Band

10-minute intermission

Part II
Deep Thought
Prom Narrator
America’s Next Top Model
Art Nouveau
Phone Deletion
Overused Phrases
Platypus
Everything Else
Your Sister’s Hot
E’Twaun
The Great Debate
The Fabulous Life
Fitness
Mary & Ed
Rock Band II