新メンバーよりご挨拶

今年の5月から、パイレーツ・オブ・東京湾の新メンバーとして加わりましたユリコです！

まだメンバーとしては半年と日が浅く、出させてもらうショーでも毎回緊張とワクワクが混ざった状態で舞台に立っています！

パイレーツのメンバーは、都内を始め海外でのショー以外にも、その高いコミュニケーション力から株式会社ビズリーチや大手ＩＴ企業などの研修にも入る実力派のパフォーマー集団です！

でも、そのメンバー達の人柄はとても温かくて、英語を全然話せない私も仲間として一緒にできるパフォーマンスでショーや練習に参加させてもらっています！

本来、即興劇は台本も流れも決まっていないので、その場で役者がお客様の空気を感じながら一緒に作り上げていくというかなり難易度が高いものなのですが、

逆にいうと、

お客様も台本なしの生モノだと分かっている分、すごくその瞬間に生まれるものを楽しもうとする方が多いです！

その瞬間に生まれるものを自分らしく自由に楽しむ空間！すごくいいなぁと思いました！

一瞬でお客を楽しませるパフォーマンス集団と、

その瞬間を最高に楽しもうとするお客様、

このコンビが作り上げるショーの時間は最高にパワフルでめちゃくちゃ愛があって、

言葉や国の境界もなくて、

毎回とんでもなく刺激になります！！

Photo by: Javier Ibarra

また、毎回ショーが始まる前には必ず全員が、メンバー1人1人に対して相手の背中をポンポンしながら、

「Got your back!」

と言ってエールを送るのですが、

英語がほとんど話せない私は最初何を言ってるのか全く分からず、

とりあえずマネをして、

「ガッチュアバック！」と大きい声で言っていたのですが、笑

台本も何もない即興のショーでは予想外の事が起きるのは当たり前で、その中でお客様に楽しんでもらうには仲間への信頼がとても大切になっていきます。

だからこそ、

パイレーツ・オブ・東京湾での、

「Got your back!」には、

「あなたの後ろには私がいるから大丈夫だよ」

という想いを込めて毎回ショーに全員で臨むと教えてもらい、

メンバー1人1人が当たり前に持ってるそういう温かさが、ショーのパフォーマンスを絶対的に上げて、ファンを増やしてるんだろうなぁと感じています！

2018年も最後のショーが終わり、

また2019年も気持ちを新たにショーに出演させてもらうので、

新メンバーとして一つ一つステップアップしていきたいと思います！！

SHOW RECAP: July 30th, Tokyo

July in Tokyo is all about festivals, rock concerts, sweaty salarymen, watermelon and summer fun and this month's Pirates of Tokyo Bay show had a little bit of all of those (and more)! Squaring off were two teams of Pirates, the Red team and the White team, both "fighting" for the audience laughs and votes casted in our app.  

On the Red team was: Mike, Bob, Annika, Tomoko and Trey.  
On the White team: Masa, Elliot, Roza, Rodger and Carlos.

The show opened with a bilingual music number inspired by summer in Japan. Taking suggestions from the audience ranging from sweat to cockroaches, the Pirates crafted a bilingual song backed by Ben Anderson on the piano. Points were given to the Red team for Tomoko's amazing singing. 

Score: Red 7, White 1.

Next up was a mixed team game done in Japanese called "Ding" and then on to the Red v. White team games.

Red team started off with "1 Thing" which is a gibberish game. An every day activity was gotten from the audience and then common items associated with that activity were replaced with crazy alternatives. Mike was the guesser for the Red team and successfully guessed that he was "Making Breakfast".  But the eggs were Pasmos, the pan was a car, the in-house chef was a starfish and the sponge to clean the pan was actually Cookie Monster. Crazy!

The White team followed up with their game, "Late for Work" where Roza had to guess why she was late to her job at a sushi restaurant. The suggestions she correctly guessed were that 1) she was late because her purse didn't match her dress, 2) she rode an elephant to get to work, 3) but on the way to work on the elephant, it went in to labor. 

After that round of games, the audience voted.

Score: Red 9, White 7

Next up were the Japanese game, "Whose Line" where the scene dialogue was dictated by lines of dialogue given by the audience and written down on strips of paper for the Pirates to use. As seems to be a trend recently, the phrase "Make America Great Again" made an appearance.

Right before intermission, the Pirates played "Action Replay" and then "Speed Dating". Both were bilingual games and "Speed Dating" involved longtime Pirate Fan, Alan as the guest on stage to guess a series of celebrities* he was on a speed date with. 

Score at intermission: Red 13, White 12

After the intermission and traditional selling of raffle tickets, the Pirates opened with a rarely played song-game, "In the Neighborhood". The highlight was Bob's debut as a singer! He won points for his Red team as the only singer in the game.

Score: Red 15, White 12

After a Japanese game of "Blind Dubbing", the Red and White teams squared off again for audience votes.

Red team went with "Marionettes" and invited a special fan, from Aoba International School in Japan where the Pirates workshopped with the kids earlier in the month. 

White team went with Sound FX where two audience participants provided all the sounds effects for the scene. Almost to an impressive realism!

Score: Red 17, White 12

The final game was audience favorite, "Rap Tinder" where the Pirates, backed by a custom-made rap beat, create verses based on audience submitted selfies that are projected above the stage. Masa won the battle and got "swiped right" to win.

FINAL Score: Red 18, White 32

Need tickets to our August 27th show? Get them here.

* Celebrities were played by Pirates. ;)