Kickin' It Oldschool
By: Jess Hoffman
   
 
Here at Campus Kids, as the Blair facility lets us, technology in the world advances, and our counselors become more tech-savy, we keep creating more and more cool videos to play for the talent shows, plays, and other events.    
    But, as five staff members, Adam, Ryan, Danny, Doug, and Jason  took the stage, they decided to show us what a good ol' fashioned talent show is, and how we have been a bit spoiled with all this technology!
What was special about these 5 counselors, is that they have been here at Campus Kids for an extremely long amount of time, so they were able to bring old traditions from previous talent shows, that many had forgotten about!
     
 
The show started out with a video of the 5 men walking away from one of the dorms as it blew up, (they made it dramatic because they had claimed that Steven Spielberg had been directing their planned videos for the talent show) But then they became frantic because in this dorm "explosion" (all special effects, let me add, no worries) the "film" was destroyed as well. So then they "decided" they just had to wing it! (of course this was all planned, hence the quotations)
 
So, they "spontaneously" did the intros from previous talent shows and also some new ones such as:
  • Bananas (where the staff ate bananas, spit it up, switched plates, and then ate someone else's banana! ew!)
  • The Piano/Ukelele intro (where Jason played piano when introducing the ukelele player and played ukelele when introducing the piano player)
  • A chugging contest between Ryan and Jason
  • Doug teached everyone how to "Dougie" CK style, (open schedule, swing keys, call out "Ultimate!" and repeat)
  • Sills and Danny both made people look to the right and left, and up and down, and while the suspense was building as to why everyone was doing that, they just introduced the next act.
  • Then they did something called "Big League Chew" where they stick as much gum into their mouth and see if they could still say "Big League Chew". (much like the game Chubby Bunny for those who have heard of that)
  • They then did an extremely humurous skit if anyone remembers it from our past campus. Years ago, when everyone was looking around for the missing sponges, Ryan went to get the last one from the top of a column, and accidentally some of the wall broke off! So, they reenacted this skit, and Ryan very carefully went to get the last sponge. They then all put the sponges together, and like always they yelled "NOTHING HAPPENED!"
  • They also performed a Cafeteria Beat where they created a beat off of the cafeteria utensils.
  • Sills and Danny then performed the classic Binoculars skit, where they pretend to be on top of a building looking down at what's happening in CK. They overexaggerate certain things and joke around about the counselors. Always provokes a laugh from the audience!

They were all fantastic intros, their CK experience really was shown!

 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
  Of course with this amount of fun in between the acts, there was just as much during the acts! We had:  
Jordan and Jess playing and singing, "If It Means A Lot to You".
The Jamie Foxes Kung Fu Grip dancing to, "Party Rock" and "Kung Fu Fighting".    
Sydney dancing to, "Here We Go Again",    
Taylor playing, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on her Ukelele.    
Molly playing, "Simplicity" on piano.    
Aiden singing/rapping to, "Not Afraid".
Leah singing, "Fall For You."    
Jackie singing, "The Fame".    
Eric singing, "Nine in the Afternoon".    
Bridget dancing to, "Edge of Glory".    
Cass playing and singing, "Yellow".    
Noah singing, "Science and Faith".    
Daryn physically breaking boards!    
Remy performing a rap, while Ste played the drums.    
The Lunar Ladies dancing to, "Waka Waka".    
David, Corey, Owen, Dan, Alec, and Ethan performing an excellent song on the trumpet, piano, drums, guitar, and vocals!    
And last but not least, a very special tribute was performed. This has happened a couple times before, for example, one was dedicated to Teri. This time, it was for the one and only Matt Lurrie. The hosts called up two volunteers on stage- Matt and Luke. They put a blindfold on Matt and told Matt that Luke and him would try and find the mystery prize on stage. Luke scampered off stage, and Matt was the only one left, and everyone cheered him on, as he was looking for well...nothing. Then finally, when the blindfold was removed, Matt saw that his three pals, Ste, Simon, and Abe were getting ready to perform. They wrote a humurous and touching song, all about Matt. It also had a fun slideshow in the background. This song certainly showed how much Matt has meant to the camp throughout the years. It had many in tears at the end, including Matt. Great job guys, and we love you Matt!
     
 
(special solo from Danny!)		    
     
  At the very end, the hosts put together a fantastic slideshow which had a trip down memory lane! It showed pictures of all the staff that were once campers here!   
     
     
   
(yours truly..and as England says it, please "Mind the gap".)		  
     
     
     
     
 
     
  Then there was a quick clip of Stu teaching Tom how to shake his booty, and then we got to see the booty-shaking in person from Stu!   
I'd like to thank the hosts of the talent show for not only putting together a great show, but also for giving many an extremely nostalgic night! The talent, audience, and everyone behind the scenes were fantastic as always. Bravo! Tradition can be a great thing! So that's what we do at Campus Kids- mixing the old and new everyday!    
     
     
  P.S. Thank you Stu for contributing many of these pictures!   
     
     
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