the people that walk in part of 2 it music and not enough people approach it as an art forum like vaudeville or sitting up there and playing acele or a peeing contest they have to sit up there and whoever what hold it the longs it. >> i love funny little things it will be quirky and commissioner any other questions. >> we have the data bar. >> i know as hopefully. >> and close in the same area and music is art anyone else that says it is isn't is wrong. >> one of the savings is john len none and york could on no. >> i walked on thin ice so thank you very much you have a committee. >> yeah. the police department and two things are you agreeing that both the security camera. >> we have that in our plans and the second one i was - >> mandate for our staff. >> perfect, thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> your fire your public assembly it is 49 right now that should have been corrected an error that you went. >> the fire department is 176. >> you have to file the assembly permit. >> yes. we are. >> okay anyone else question. >> commissioner perez. >> hi, i'm impressed with your drawings so thank y

the tablecloth trick gone wrong is a viral ad created for the gop vaudeville theater in germany. >> youare to cirque du soleil. >> it's an internet juggernaut gaining more than 31 million hits. the video's directors, norman krueger and dominic yunker, brainstorm another misadventure for the daring duo. >> had to be more extreme. had to be bigger. and so i thought about this -- this car crash. >> before they create the big smash, the guys add legitimacy by filming a series of other trampoline stunts. >> jumping over a dog. jumping into a swimming pool. jumping over a cow. >> everything up to the car is real. >> like the long con. if the first three or four videos seem very real and are real, you have to believe that the last one is real, too. >> for the grand finale, the directors lock down the camera and shoot three different actions. >> we set the camera up, then you don't move it the whole day because you make different shots and you combine them in the post production. >> first up is michel jumping on and off the car. instead of a vehicle, he leaps on to garbage cans which are approx

the people that walk in part of 2 it music and not enough people approach it as an art forum like vaudeville there and playing acele or a peeing contest they have to sit up there and whoever what hold it the longs it. >> i love funny little things it will be quirky and commissioner any other questions. >> we have the data bar. >> i know as hopefully. >> and close in the same area and music is art anyone else that says it is isn't is wrong. >> one of the savings is john len none and york could on no. >> i walked on thin ice so thank you very much you have a committee. >> yeah. the police department and two things are you agreeing that both the security camera. >> we have that in our plans and the second one i was - >> mandate for our staff. >> perfect, thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> your fire your public assembly it is 49 right now that should have been corrected an error that you went. >> the fire department is 176. >> you have to file the assembly permit. >> yes. we are. >> okay anyone else question. >> commissioner perez. >> hi, i'm impressed with your drawings so thank you for share i

dubbed intellectual vaudeville by the new york times, our next guest is accompanied by an american theaterroupe disguised as a comedy team. they are noting -- they take huge important stories and reducing them to silly little skits. please join me in welcoming read martin and austen from the reduced shakespeare company. >> you did it. thank you. thank you. i am read martin. we are two thirds of the reversed shakespeare company. we are a theatrical comedy group known for taking long, boring topics and making them into short sharp comedies. >> that is right. our first shows the complete works of william shakespeare, the complete history of america abridged and the complete word of god abridged, ran in london for almost we 10 years at the criterion theater and it is time for the anniversary year 2016, we created our tents stage show, william shakespeare's long-lost first play abridged. here is the premise. we were on tour in england and finished performing in a theater. >> we went back to titus. >> you should ask wayne what titus is. >> when we are on tour we travel in a 12 seat passenger van

dubbed intellectual vaudeville, our next guest as an accompaniment of american theater troupe that isisguised as a comedy team. team. they are known for taking huge and important stories reducing them to silly skits. please join me in welcoming read, martin and austin stegner from the shakespeare company [applause]. >> we did it. thank you. >> i'm read martin. >> we are two thirds of the reduced shakespeare company. we are theatrical comedy group known for taking brain topics and making them into short,em i comedies. >> a verse three show the complete works of william shakespeare had the bottle of co the complete word of god a bridge, it ran in london for almost ten years at the criterion theater.d it is time >> .. shakespeare's long-lost first play abridged. here is the premise. we were on tour in england and finished performing in a theater. >> we went back to titus. >> you should ask wayne what titus is. >> when we are on tour we travel in a 12 seat passenger van we call titus andronicus. it is awesome. we went back to titus which was parked in the parking lot. >> we saw a hole in

, sr., so about the first 200 pages of that book are really about this trio, this old-fashioned vaudeville not to name drop, but denzel washington had bought the rights to the sammy davis book and he wanted to make a movie and he told me that the reason he bought the rights to that book was that he had a lot of admiration for the family story, for the three people traveling around 1930s america, 1940s america. three black people, sammy, jr. and sammy, sr., and will masten. it never got made but, another director in hollywood now has the rights to that story and so fingers crossed something happens. so i wanted to bring the black world and the white world also to that story. the "the haygoods of columbus ," the interesting part of that story was telling about the rise and fall of that street and what else was the other book? "two on the river quote, that was just a travel journey and, the adam clayton powell book, i really wanted to, you know, to delve deeply into his college career and the battle that happened on the hill when he was tossed out of congress. so i always tried to find an ang

the people that walk in part of 2 it music and not enough people approach it as an art forum like vaudeville or sitting up there and playing acele or a peeing contest they have to sit up there and whoever what hold it the longs it. >> i love funny little things it will be quirky and commissioner any other questions. >> we have the data bar. >> i know as hopefully. >> and close in the same area and music is art anyone else that says it is isn't is wrong. >> one of the savings is john len none and york could on no. >> i walked on thin ice so thank you very much you have a committee. >> yeah. the police department and two things are you agreeing that both the security camera. >> we have that in our plans and the second one i was - >> mandate for our staff. >> perfect, thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> your fire your public assembly it is 49 right now that should have been corrected an error that you went. >> the fire department is 176. >> you have to file the assembly permit. >> yes. we are. >> okay anyone else question. >> commissioner perez. >> hi, i'm impressed with your drawings so thank y

i mean, look, vaudeville died as a business, but did that kind of performance go away? no.mething else. variety shows on television. radio was supposed to die when television came in. did it die? no, it changed, it shifted, it found its audience. movies are supposed to die when cable came in and then vcr's came in and dvd's came in and they haven't died. so, story telling is something we yearn for, we believe, we love, we're entertained by it, we're enriched by it and you know, and those of us who love to tell stories are finding more and more ways to get those stories on screens. maria: once again, content is king it feels like. how tough was it to make that pivot from actor to director? >> well, when i did it, it was very unusual, and particularly to be a kid coming off sit-comes, i directed my first movie when i was 23, as far as everyone was concerned, i was a kid. maria: is that when you worked with bette davis? >> that was later, she was tough. who is this guy from a sit-com. i followed my father's advice, my father is an actor, rand howard, and he's been an actor for

well, vaudeville died as a business, but that kind of performance go away? no.e cirque du soleil for it became "saturday night live" or something else a variety shows on television. radio is supposed to die when television came in. it changed, should it have found its audience. movies are supposed to die when cable came in and vcrs and dvds. and they haven't died. storytelling is something we love, we are entertained by it, and reached via. and those of us who love to tell stories are finding more and more ways to get those tories on screens. maria: once again, content is king it feels like. how tough was it to make the payday from actor to director? >> well, when i did it, it was very unusual. i directed my first movie when i was 23. as far as everyone was concerned, i was a kid. bette davis was a couple years later. she was tough. she challenged me. who was this guy in sitcoms tried to tell me what to do. but i followed my father's advice in my father is an actor, he still at it, acting for decades. i was nervy about bette davis. he said she's a great actor an

the people that walk in part of 2 it music and not enough people approach it as an art forum like vaudevillesitting up there and playing acele or a peeing contest they have to sit up there and whoever what hold it the longs it. >> i love funny little things it will be quirky and commissioner any other questions. >> we have the data bar. >> i know as hopefully. >> and close in the same area and music is art anyone else that says it is isn't is wrong. >> one of the savings is john len none and york could on no. >> i walked on thin ice so thank you very much you have a committee. >> yeah. the police department and two things are you agreeing that both the security camera. >> we have that in our plans and the second one i was - >> mandate for our staff. >> perfect, thank you. >> commissioner lee. >> your fire your public assembly it is 49 right now that should have been corrected an error that you went. >> the fire department is 176. >> you have to file the assembly permit. >> yes. we are. >> okay anyone else question. >> commissioner perez. >> hi, i'm impressed with your drawings so thank you f

intellectual vaudeville by "the new york times" our next guest is from an american theater troupe disguiseds a comedy team known for taking his agenda important stories in reducing them from the reduced shakespeare company. [applause] we are a two-thirds of the reduced shakespeare company a theatrical, the neat trip knowing long boring topics into short comedy before the first three shows in iran in london for almost 10 years and now we're here in time we have created the tenth stage show the long-lost first play abridged. [laughter] so here's the premise we were on tour last year refinish performing as we went back to tie this we're on to work we travel in a 12 seat passenger van and was parked in the parking lot and we saw a pool in down the whole was a bundle of papers that was the most important literary discovery of the past 400 years not "50 shades of grey" but we discovered welcome -- william shakespeare as long lost first play and contextual clues suggested as 100 hours long we have cut it down it two hours when of the scenes we cut indicates he was an early influence of at the end