Ben asked me to kick this upstairs from the Art Department So, here goes...
What: Proposal to the Linux Users Group for a Street Theater Presentation When: 2006 Eugene Celebration Where: Eugene, OR...and maybe...The World Why: FUN, and big time bragging rights for ELUG How: To be produced by B. Gallagher and a cast of characters Cost: $100.00 for parade entry fee (based on the 2005 non-profit status) and some materials I propose to make life size Muppets of the characters: Tux, Mozilla, Breezy Badger, and Beastie to be used in conjunction with props to pre(in)form the Eugene Community about the latest and greatest Distro Ubuntu. This will be a quality production and the costumes will become community property in keeping with the philosophy of the Linux community. This being a labor intensive project I reserve the right to play Tux this year. I will be looking for three other individuals to wear the other costumes in the Eugene Celebration. A minimal amount of rehearsal will be required of those involved. Costume production will be photo documented and posted to the ELUG. A late summer dress rehearsal and potluck barbecue will be scheduled. Due to the uncertainty of weather conditions during the day of the Eugene Celebration, the dress rehearsal will be an opportunity to video document the performance and present a more bawdy version then the final public performance. The Script (tentative to discussion) Picture a 10 foot high by 15 foot wide screen held upright by Breezy and Mozilla. The front (in the forward direction of travel) of the screen is a mock-up of Google, say Dongle or something, with the white space containing our commercial sponsors. Tux is sitting on his trusty bike 30 odd feet behind doing his best Evil knievel impression, with Beastie running amok, egging on the crowd. The Screen is advanced to the first stage position about 20 feet ahead and spun 180 degrees to reveal the back side...a blue screen of death! Tux pedals his bike strait at the screen and passes through a vertical split in the center. As Tux breaks the plane a banner is unfurled from the back of his bike revealing UBUNTU. Crowd is scratching their head thinking what does that mean? (NOTE: here is where the script diverges for the bawdy version) Tux dismounts pulls a hunting cap and Styrofoam shotgun out of his lower half and starts mock hunting. Beastie weaves out in front of the gun and takes a load of bird pellet. He goes down! Tux stumbles over to Beastie laying on the ground and plants a foot on his chest. Thereby establishing the myth of why they had to kill off the FreeBSD mascot. Tux makes some birdlike noises regurgitates an origami fish to the crowd's applause. Everyone takes a bow and they advance to the next stage position resetting the props on the way. Volunteers can work the sidewalk with fliers on Ubuntu and our commercial sponsors. The End. Some technical considerations: 1) Individuals perform at their own risk 2) Some vehicle transportation may be required 3) Someone will be needed to post the JPG's provided by me 4) Someone will be needed to research the legal issues associated with using these characters 5) Someone will be needed to interface with the Eugene Celebration sponsors This is just a quick sketch. If it meets with approval I will storyboard the skit and we can start the discussion. Erin Go Bragh Brian _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
