Last night, New Year's Eve, the whole family went to see the theater adaptation of David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries. I almost peed myself. My favorite part of the essay is the bit about the Magic Window. When Sedaris is working as a Macy's elf, he gets assigned to stand by the Magic Window and tell people that if they stand on the Magic Star, they can see Santa through the window. Needless to say, this becomes a rather repetitive and boring task. So he starts telling people they can see all kinds of people through the window, like Cher and Mike Tyson. This actor, updating it for his current audience, changed it to Beyoncé. Funny enough to imagine, but not as funny as the SPOT-ON rendition of Beyoncé's dance from the "Single Ladies" video performed by a 5'7" skinny black man in an elf costume. If you need to see for yourself, and I think you do, go here:
http://www.zachtheatre.org/holidayElf/
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Cute with the elf-guy (how does a black guy get so little groove? he can't even do the Elvis walk?), but if you haven't seen the orig Single Ladies Gwen Verdon, check it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aarCFg_eWk
This is now the new youtube remix craze video BTW.
And, besides, no one does the Single Ladies dance as well as my 18-month old niece! No kidding!
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