CRUMBS does SHOWS!

Holy Sh*T folks!

CRUMBS is Soooooooooo damn excited for some upcoming shows. We simply must tell you all over again about them.


#1
Our good friends The National Theatre of the World (known as NTOW) are traveling from the comforts of Toronto to the icy wonderland of Winnipeg to do some shows at the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre (knows as WJT). They will be performing Jan 25th - 29th. They do a show called Impromptu Splendor that has them improvising a show in a theatrical style, and they are great. They are so great that they have invited CRUMBS to perform with them on Thursday, Jan 26th, the show will be in the style of HAROLD PINTER and it will be great. So great in fact, that you should go see the show.

#2
While our good friends NTOW are in Winnipeg, we decided to also put on a special midnight show of NTOW + CRUMBS for everyone to see. We are doing the show on Friday, Jan 27th at the ECC (which is at 75 Albert Street). The show will only be $5 (which is way way too cheap) but the show will be starting at MIDNIGHT SHARP (latecomers will be charged $10, which is still soooo cheap). Get there early folks, early!

#3
CRUMBS continues to do our regular shows at the King's Head Pub as part of the ongoing and super awesome FREE LAUGHS comedy shows. The first show will Tuesday, Feb 7th at 9pm and Tuesday, Feb 21st at 9pm. These shows are always a good time and always free and always a double good time.

#4
CRUMBS doesn't only do strange guest shows and free shows, oh no, we also do shows at REAL theatres for ACTUAL MONEY! We will be putting on our annual Berlin or Bust improv show at the Gas Station Arts Centre on Saturday, Feb 18th at 8pm. The tickets will be only $10 and advance tickets will be on sale at our regular CRUMBS shows (see above postings). This show is the fundraiser show we put on every year before we head off on our European Tour! Come on down and support us by laughing at us (we would love that).

#5
CRUMBS continues to bring you live radio every single Monday at 5pm CST on 101.5 UMFM. We also broadcast and podcast on the Internet as well (because the future is NOW!). We have been doing this show at UMFM for almost a decade and we would love your ears tuned in.

#6
CRUMBS then tours Europe for months. Look for our European Tour schedule on our official European Website and then stalk us all across the Old Country.

What? You want links to help you out?

The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

Map to the King's Head Pub

Map to the ECC (where the midnight show is on Friday)





See y'all at the shows folks

CRUMBS at the Fringe!

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is almost here, heck, maybe it is here by the time you are reading this.



CRUMBS performs the amazingly hilarious make'up improv comedy freestyle awesome show at the King's Head Pub upstairs. Ladies and Gentlemen, Stephen and Lee have been touring this show all over the world and people keep inviting them back for more. They have been touring and doing their shows with Dj Hunnicutt, who just happens to be an amazingly amazing Dj and he enhances the already awesome show to higher levels of awesome.


Wed, July 14th at 9:30 pm we kick things off.

Thu, July 15th at 10:15 pm
Fri, July 16th at 10:15 pm
Sat, July 17th at 10:15 pm
Sun, July 18th at 10:15 pm
Mon, July 19th at 10:15 pm
Tue, July 20th at 10:15 pm

Wed, July 21st No Show! Don't Go!

Thu, July 22nd at 10:15 pm
Fri, July 23rd at 10:15 pm
Sat, July 24th at 10:15 pm

Then it is all over! But folks don't just line up like everyone else... buy your tickets in advance. The last few years people have been pretty pissed that they have lined up hours early and still were denied entry. We sell out fast folks, fast. So go online and get your tickets now, yes NOW.

Get your advanced tickets here.



Here is some information about the Fringe in Winnipeg.

#1 It is the best one in North America. It isn't the biggest (that distinction belongs to Edmonton's Fringe) but it is the best one. It has people who are really interested in seeing the shows and there really is a buzz in the city while the festival is going on. Winnipeg has a nice fountain while Edmonton has a waterpark inside their mall... Edmonton is always out bigging us.



#2 It is where you can see shows shows shows and more shows. Anyone can apply and anyone can get pulled in the lottery. That means you can see a show from a pro group and an amateur group. You can see a dance show from China or a real live play from England. You can see a local company perform an original work or a theatre company from America perform Shakespeare... You can see almost anything at almost anytime for a whole 12 days.


#3 People are around and Winnipeg feels like an actual city with an actual downtown with actual cultural life. This alone is worth seeing.

#4 CRUMBS puts on a show every night just for you. Seriously, it's just for you.

*plus
Don't forget about the CRUMBS live radio show on every Monday at 5 pm CST on 101.5 umfm... you can even tune in over the internets.

Listen online here.

Download Podcasts here.



*double plus
Don't forget to continue to go see live comedy in Winnipeg.

Sunday nights at the Cavern in Osborne Village

Tuesday nights at the King's Head Pub

Thursday nights at the Standard

CRUMBS in Oslo, Norway

CRUMBS has never been to Oslo. CRUMBS has never been to Norway. Last year was the first time our show was in Scandinavia (in Stockholm, Sweden) so this will be number two for us.

We arrived in Oslo at night and it was raining, but we didn't give up on Oslo quite yet. We get taken to our “hotel” which is a “floating hotel” which is a boat.



We are close to the train station and right in the heart of Oslo so it is easy to get around. The boat is cool except for the fact that they seem to be constructing the loudest thing possible right outside out boat window. I can usually sleep through anything, so simply go from “sleeping” into “just resting”. We must now muster all our energy for the show. We aren't about to give up on Oslo yet...

First of all, Norwegians totally think Canadians bleed Maple Syrup and totally made a bunch of maple syrup jokes in the show. Then the next day I found this.

So suck it! (maple syrup I mean)


The show... was great. The Norwegians are fun to play with and we again play “The Director's Cut” which worked so well in K-Town. I don't need to explain how the form works (because I have explained it already) but here is the breakdown of what happened.


The Stories:

#1- Two mounties (one veteran and one rookie) investigating the moose gang robbery of maple syrup. (This story was just riddled with factual Canadian facts)




#2- A classic Henrik Ibsen drama about a poor rich girl, her mean father, her dying mother and the poor servant boy she loved.



#3- A husband and wife, wife is dying of a disease, husband is a jerk, turns out wife was lying about disease, doctor shows up and it turns out she really has a disease, doctor falls in love with the wife, she needs a new heart... what will happen?



#4- Set in 1777, a dual at sunrise between two best friends, what went wrong between them?



#5- Space is always a nice place to set your story right? A captain (boss) and a first mate (named space) discover a planet and must overcome their own differences to defeat the aliens... classic and silly.



The next day CRUMBS explored Oslo, walking around aimlessly and sometimes with aim. We found the Edvard Munch (LINK NEWS ABOUT SCREAM STOLEN) museum and wondered around there until we realized that “The Scream” wasn't even there (though there was a sketch of it there). We also ate food. I was hoping to perhaps partake in the famous Norwegian rotten fish (link to fish preserved in lye) but it turns out it is harder to find than I realized, if I was here during X-mas it would have been easy I am told.




Next Stop: The Berlin International Impro Festival 2010


but wait, there's more....

#1
There is a huge train crash right by where our boat is anchored. For some reason a bunch of empty train cars without a locomotive start to move down a hill. There is nobody on board and no brakes. The train cars end up smashing into a building and crashing into the sea. Some people died in the crash and it even ran into a boat. Not our boat, in fact we might have slept right through the noise, assuming it was the construction that has been going on constructing right outside our boat window.

#2
We wake up in the early morning to take the train from the train station to the airport to take our plane to Berlin. Everything is fine, the train is delayed and even stops about halfway there on the tracks because of some problem they don't know. The train gets going again and we make it to the airport at around the time we should, not too tight. The electronic check-in won't recognize our printed out tickets so we are sent down a different line. When we get to the check-in human she is puzzled that her computer won't recognize our tickets either.

“Oh, I see the problem” she says reassuringly “You are at the wrong airport. You want to go to the other airport, it is about an hour and a half away.”



So it turns out we have minutes to change our flight, luckily the line up to this human was almost non existing. The problem is the flight would cost us almost 1000 Euros. She also says that it is to late to check out luggage and would have to see if we would be allowed to get our obviously not carry-on luggage onto the plane. She said that if it didn't work she would refund the cost of the tickets. There was another flight the next day we could by for just over 600 Euro, and even though she mentioned the bonus of being able to check in our luggage, we thought we could do better.

Time for a phone call to HQ and get Marie on the case. Within minute she has us a flight out of the correct airport (whatever airport you are in is always considered the correct airport) in a couple hours and cheaper than what was offered us. So after a couple hours spent eating pizza and relaxing, we get on board our much nicer flight and start the trek to Berlin.

Oh Oslo... Oh Berlin...

CRUMBS Euro Touro (the flight)

CRUMBS euro touro 2010

The plane ride over was of course really a couple plane rides, someday it would be nice to charter our own plane directly from Winnipeg to Berlin with first class seating and beds and entertainment, but until that day comes we have to deal with all the annoyances that everyone else has to deal with. Security was silly enough to let us through and after the obligatory stand in line, we were off.

Highlights:

-Randomly running into Jacob Banigan and his son Sam at the Toronto airport
-getting to watch “Up in the Air” on the plane (although they need to work out a system where they only give you the option to watch movies that will end before you land)
-the plane not crashing (the picture is not from our flight or anything we saw)

Lowlights:

-not getting to sleep
-the loud and selfish asshole ahead of us on the transatlantic flight who insisted on complaining that he was hungry while everyone was trying to sleep.
-not enough in flight movie options and no power for the laptops (what is up Luftansa)

We arrived in Frankfurt and were greeted by Nadine at the airport. We got into her car and had a road trip to Wurzburg, the sun was shining and we barreled down the autobahn blaring Chilliwack and April Wine. A nice beginning to what will no doubt be an amazing tour once again. The road trip we took sounded like this and this. Enjoy


But first, we must battle the Jet Lag!

Notes about Jet Lag:
-NASA claims that Jet Lag takes one full day for every time zone traveled
-Sun light is the most critical element to defeat your Jet Lag foe (getting sunlight that is)
-stay up the first day no matter how much the demons tempt you to bed
-punch Jet Lag right in the throat!

Next stop: Wurzburg