Yowza! What a show.

There are many great moments in Schadenfreude's history but there are four that leap to mind as epic.

When we brought a full Gospel Choir onstage at The Chicago Improv Festival in 2001
When we brought a full Bagpiper group onstage at The Chicago Improv Festival in 2002
When we turned the Athaneum into a Hotel & Casino In 2003
The show we did for the opening of The New Goodman where we made fun of the goodman for a half hour

The bits meant get people talking about the next day. The bits that, hopefully, become legend and get all exaggerated as people tell people about it and then someday be one of those things that people claim to have seen.

On Friday night I think we added one to the list. "Save Michelle Leigh" It was a pretty crazy event. These Rent Parties really are something, if you haven't been to one you gotta come June 16th. It's Cafe Ashie on Steroids (Cafe' Ashie, now Stargaze, 5419 N. Clark St. was the home of the first 16 Schadenfreude Shows in 1998 featuring Gillian Vigman and Ike Barinholtz).

I think I said it all when I cornered Stephe at the after-party at the Damen Bar & Grill:

"Stephe, you know that bit where you get upset at Michelle Leigh leaving, you blog about it continuously, start a website, start an online petition, meet an inside man at fox, get in all the local papers, radio, community blogs, then invite Michelle Leigh out to a show packed with people because of the buzz to make a thunderdome video to put on youtube?"
"Yeah"
"That's a good bit."

It was a good bit. Then someone threw a glass and they kicked us out.

One thing I didn't think of that Michelles shared was how good she felt. I guess I didn't really think about her being depressed about being fired, but she said this made her feel really good. Imagine every time you've ever been fired, how happy were you? Well imgaine someone starts a website to rehire you and gets 100 people to chant to save you.

Oh and at the Damen Bar & Grill, Justin was the DJ master, he hit that friggin' internet jukebox with a vengeance, Metallica, Bell Biv Devoe, Janet Jackson, he needs to publish his playlist online, he really had the place jumping. Then someone threw a glass and they kicked us out.