Follies 2006: The show that was

The Follies shows at Ross happened last week and I had an absolute blast being a part of the festivities. This year, I rapped as Al Cotrone (the Director of the Office of Career Development at Ross) in a skit poking fun at recruiting activities, played a ‘Bus’ dude in a skit modeled after Missed Connections, and helped write, direct and shoot a video skit based on Bollywood movies.

I got compliments from a lot of people about the Bollywood skit and it also received a ‘Rosscar’ from the Monroe Street Journal. A Lion’s share of credit for the Bollywood skit goes to Meera Rao. Meera along with her MAP team came up with the idea for the skit when she was in India and she’s the one who wrote, directed and then skilfully edited (with Mike Sanders) the final product. We used the song ‘It’s the time to Disco‘ from the movie Kal Ho Na Ho and it was thrilling to hear the entire audience for the Saturday show clap along when the song come on in the skit. Kudos also to the entire Bollywood cast – especially for choreographing their own dance moves and for acting and dancing without complaining in 25 degree weather. I’m having major Follies withdrawal right now and as one of my cohorts said this morning -‘ Why can’t we have Follies all the time?’.

I have a picture of my rapping performance with my awesome flygirls and my OCD recruiting medley cast after the post. You can find more Follies pictures here.