Stars of TCU ... oh yeah ... that would happen during SAC

Stars of TCU is a talent show held at the BLUU Auditorium. This was the third year of the talent show and it happened to fall on the a Thursday night. SAC night! We were asked if we could give up our time slot so the talent show could perform, which we did. Instead of mopping around about not having a show to bring our family to during family weekend, we tried out for the talent show! Luckily, we made it!


The line up:

1. Michael Lauck - singer
2. John Devereaux - read spoken word (that is like poetry that flows into a rythmn, he wrote his selections)
3. Senseless Acts of Comedy - awesome improv talent
4. Brittany Zins- singer and guitar player
5. Man with Red Balloon Lets go - Julian Arredondo performing stand up comedy
6. Cassandra Mech - sang a beautiful selection from the play Jesus Christ Super Star and had a piano accompanist
7. Sleep and the Walkers - 4 person band (actually one of our improvisers, Wesley Gentle, is the lead singer and a guitar player
8. Curtis Green - dancer
9. Tim Haperin - singer, songwriter, who sang an original piece while playing the piano

SAC collectively decided that this would be a good place to perform because we could reach a different audience. The talent show was Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately the Thursday show did not have a big crowd. It actually had less people that usually show for our SAC shows. I could not perform in the Friday show because I was in Austin enjoying the sound waves from Austin City Limits, but I believe that was a much bigger crowd with famly and friends.

I was a little apprehensive about mixing into a group of singers and dancers, but I could not have predicted what was going to happen. The group was playing a game called New Choice. Three improvisers are on stage and they are acting out a scene as normal. The twist is, when ever they hear the sound of the bell, they most change the sentence they were saying.
For example: If Ricky said, "I just want to ravish your body with peanut butter." DING
                                     "I just want to play shutes and latters with you until I can't feel my hands."DING
                                    " I just want to take a nap with the vampires who sleep during the day."

I was the designated "dinger." The scene had progressed to a dueling match. Ricky and Wesley were charging at each other and then DING, then they would have to charge at each other in a different way. During the last DING, Ricky decided to charge at Wesley doing a backflip..... oh why why why RICKY!!!!!!! Little did I know he had smashed his face on the ground. As Ricky ran out holding his head, blood ran down his face and all of the floor. I head to take over as host and keep the next game rolling even though I had no idea what had happened to Ricky. The last game went okay, but the crowd was unsettled about seeing someone on stage bleed that much and we were upset about Ricky getting hurt. Once our 10 minutes were up, I ran back stage. Ricky was still kind of in shock and did not know what to do. He lifted his hand off his head for me and...... let's just say...eeeeoowwwwww. He had cut open his head and was pretty deep. I've never really seen blood gush out like that before. Chris Fine, who is a new improviser, volunteered to take Ricky to the hospital while the rest of us stayed till the end of the show. I went back into the crowd to watch the rest of the performances and in between each act, different audience members kept asking me about Ricky. Unfortunately luck was not on his side. He had to wait 7 hours in the emergency room until he was able to be seen. I saw his head on Friday. The stiches almost didn't look real...It looked like he had been playing with make up for Halloween. He had about 8 or 9 stiches, and is feeling better. Last year during Kellye's birthday party Ricky decided to go jump around in a bounce house and...yep...he broke his arm. How did this happen? I don't know. How did he cut his head open in the middle of the performance? I don't know. Why did Ricky thing it was a good idea to do a back flip on hard wood floor? .... I definitely do not know.