Playback and Lady Gaga

Playback is an annual tradition here in our Sakhalin expat community. Even though I'd never seen it before, I agreed to be in it with a couple of other girls.  Playback is basically lip syncing with funny acts and costumes.  It's advertized as sort of an R rated evening, so kids are not allowed.  It took us a while to come up with our act and we actually evolved the act up to the very last day. 

We were the fighting Lady Gaga's.  Each of the three of us had a Lady Gaga song.  Julie was first and started out with Alejandro.  Her song was sort of slow and she had a dance routine worked out to it.

I had already gone onstage and hidden under a sheet off to the side.  The first two songs were not the entire song but about 2 minutes of each song.  My Lady Gaga song was Bad Romance and as soon as my music came on I came out from under the sheet and during the intro, Julie and I started fighting.

I then did a dance routine to my song while Julie stood back and watched.

 

Towards the end of my song, after the first chorus, I go back after Julie and we do a little more fighting.  The third Lady Gaga, Nomi, comes on when the song Poker Face starts. 

She fights a little with each one of us and then we all three do a dance routine together. 

Towards the end of Poker Face each one of us came up to the front and dance by ourselves and then were pulled back by the other two.  At the end we all three stop at the same time.

At the end of each act, the judges give you comments and ask you questions.  Of course they asked us who was the real Lady Gaga and we all say that we were the real Lady Gaga.

Below are a few pictures of some of the other acts.
The guys and gal in this act are the teachers from the International School, so good thing kids aren't allowed.

This is the same girl who was the first Lady Gaga in our act.  She was Janis Joplin and had a helper holding up props to her song.  She was great!

 

These 3 guys did a tiddy bum bum song.  It was funny.  Max was originally going to be in this act, but they changed the dates of his trip out of town so he had to back out.  Then they changed the dates again, and he ended up being in town, but it was too late to get back into the act.  I know he was secretly relieved.

Here's Tina Turner.  Her husband is the guy with her.

This was a parody of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody AKA Mom's Rhapsody that was really good. 

 

There were a few others, some acts that I didn't see because we had to get dressed.  There were 9 acts in all.

Imagine our surprise when we were asked to come back on stage as part of the final 3.  

The audience then cheered for their favorite.

In the end, the Mom's Rhapsody won and we came in second.

It was a lot of fun but a lot of work, too.  We still can't believe that we did as well as we did.  Many thanks to Cinty for all the great pictures she took of the entire evening.  I also have a dvd now and will bring it home with me at Christmas for anyone who is interested in watching it.

Love to you all,
Karen