saavedra77 | Bollywood Ballet

Last night, I went along with sleepwhenimdead (sarrabellum was supposed to come too, but couldn't, alas ...) to a benefit for an Indian children's charity. The event featured a tongue-in-cheek "East-West Fashion Show", some standup (both in English & in Hindi), &, what was described as a "Bollywood Ballet".

I've been on kind of a Bollywood kick, recently, so it was fun to see live performers enact the style onstage. The songs were strictly lip-sync'd, which gave the performance a slightly Rocky Horror Picture Show feel at times, but the choreography was fantastic, the performers engaging, energetic, & plainly having a good time with the material. The fashion show was fun, again because the performers clearly enjoyed strutting the runway, & Kermit Apio's schtick was, well, nothing revolutionary for standup comedy (sort of a Hawaiian homage to Rodney Dangerfield & Bernie Mac ....), but worth a chuckle.

Unfortunately, they lost us near the end, when a somewhat shy-seeming gentleman came out to do a longish Hindi monologue (possibly poetry?)--granted, not something aimed at those of us non-Indians in the audience ...