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You know that your week is off to a good start when you can spend most of Tuesday night laughing. As it so happens, that's what Kat and I did tonight. At the urging of one of her coworkers we went down to the Rebar downtown and saw a special encore presentation of the Brown Derby Series' presentation of Trapped In the Closet. Trapped In the Closet is the brainchild of R. Kelly and originally was released in 2005. We spent a New Years watching the DVD with Rachel and Micah and until a few days ago we'd pretty much forgotten about it. Let me just say that it's really hard to forget something that surreal.

So when we were invited to go see it performed live we thought it might be fun. It was awesome! Not only do they perform the entire 12 chapters (it takes about 90 minutes) but they also include the commentary that R. Kelly recorded for the DVD release. The commentary was really special for us and included gems like "You'll notice how it keeps rhyming..and I don't know how that even happens!" I don't know of any other way to compliment the madness of the script any better than to hear R. Kelly's thoughts on the material. As for the plot, there's really no way to describe it and do it justice. It's best that you just see the play or watch the DVD yourself. Long story short, I'm still chuckling to myself and I'm hard pressed to remember a Tuesday evening this fun in quite some time. If you're in Seattle get down to the Rebar on Wednesday or Thursday and get yourself some laugh therapy (and support small local theater).

Posted on April 24, 2007 @ 10:09 PM | 2 comments

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:-O I have been checking Netflix to see when Part II will be released, to no avail.

So you saw a live version of people acting Trapped in the Closet??!! Omgeeeeez!

By Anonymous Rachel, at 2:14 PM, April 25, 2007  

She tries to lead him upstairs
But he goes straight to the kitchen
She says "Hun, I bought you some pears"
And then he said "I'ma heat this chicken"
Then she turns around thinking to herself
With this weird look on her face
Then he screams "Woman, what wrong witchu,
why are you walking back and forth, pacing?"
Before she answers she's thinkin' to herself
"What am I to say?"
Because the truth of the matter is
that she just slept with another man today

By Blogger Kat, at 2:21 PM, April 25, 2007  

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