Konstanz
is a town in Southern Germany. We like to call it K-town or
Konstanztinople, not because we don't like the original name, just
because it's fun. We did our CRUMBS show at the K9 and then we left
town. It was a real “In Out Operation” as they say in the biz.
We
got “Astronomer” and “Nail Studio” as our inspirations. One
storyline followed Maureen and Roxy, two nail studio workers.
Maureen
is feeling lonely and unattractive ever since her boyfriend Denis
left her. Roxy (and a crazy slutty client) convince her to go to the
best club in town (The Unicorn Club). She secretly has a huge crush
on Pierre (her smock designer, who seems to be gay). She decides to
take part in the local legend at the Unicorn Club. You see, if you
grab the unicorn horn on the statue in the middle of the dance floor
and close your eyes and make a wish, when you open your eyes the
first person you see is your true love.
Maureen opens her eyes on
Denis (the audience was upset over this). Eventually she musters up
the courage to ask Pierre out, and it turns out he isn't gay after
all. Though looking back with improv regret... he should have been
gay and tragedy should have befallen Maureen.
The
other storyline involved an astronomy professor and his idiot
assistant. The professor was looking for a supernova so he could
become famous.
The idiot assistant was just the only person from his
family to ever go to university, and the only person who would
actually apply for the job as assistant (because the professor is
hated). Jeremy (the idiot) goes home to his family and we see that
his dad has black lung and refuses to see his son ever work in a coal
mine (hence the university).
But when all hope is lost, the parallels
between coal mining and searching the cosmos for dying stars is
revealed. They both involve traveling back in time, whether spying
on the old light of dying stars, or digging into the old layers of
the Earth's crust.
Jeremy discovers the super nova, discovers that
there is coal on it and gets to fly on a rocket ship to the new super
nova. Science.
