Our 2nd Annual ‘Amazing Humans’ Variety Show Was Wild!
Our 2nd Annual ‘Amazing Humans’ Variety Show Was Wild!
Our 2nd Annual ‘Amazing Humans’ Variety Show Was Wild! At 8:13 p.m. an 11-piece Balkan brass band kicked off the night. By 8:34, a human rights lawyer had been turned into a living ventriloquist dummy. It wasn’t even nine o’clock yet when a naked woman popped out of an enormous balloon. (We didn’t see that one coming). After that, things started to get a little crazy. Last night, Reasons to be Cheerful’s second annual variety show, Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things , once again earned its title. A head-spinning parade of comedians, magicians, burlesque performers, gospel singers, world-champion beatboxers and avant-garde absurdists had the sold-out New York City theater laughing, cheering and — more than once — gasping. Inspirational, RTBC-produced films showed young people building boats in the Bronx and asylum seekers putting down roots in the U.S. At the close of the night, the crowd was on its feet for a 1,500-person sing-along to the Talking Heads classic “Slippery People,” performed…