Improvisation has always been an important part of vaudeville. The performers must turn awkward situations into comedy, bringing out the humor of a fumble or a confused volunteer. Comedy always looks like something you could just go out and do, but it actually takes as much thought, planning, and rehearsal as the rest of the show. Note the differences between the old film comedians such as the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and the modern stand-up comedians performing today. These colors are bright under normal light but when we turn on the blacklights they glow in the darkness and become almost alive with color.
Objects appear to float through the air by themselves.
Props also move with a strobe, or trail effect, giving the illusion of one object multiplying in mid-air. The colors on our props and costumes are created using special fluorescent paints and fabrics. The colors are brought to life in the dark by four foot long fluorescent tubes which put out an ultra-violet light. When a blacklight is on, it is actually turning on and off at a speed too great for the human eye to detect. If an object in this light is moved rapidly, it disappears during the fraction of a second when the light is off, and re-appears when the light comes back on.