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...like its predecessors in the cult entertainment world, Get a New Job, Joe Blunsten!'s campy spontaneity has attracted a devoted following. As the fourth episode, "Romantic Christmas Special," begins, directors Elijah F. Aron '92-'93 and Paul N. Gailiunas '92 toss candy into the 70 people that have arrived for the 10 p.m. show in the Adams House Private Dining Room. The crowd goes wild...
...Blunsten--a good, honest family man who has one fatal flaw: he can't hold onto a job," says Gailiunas. And, if you haven't guessed already, the show has a socialist bent. "There's always a strict dichotomy between the evil Tycoon and the working man," adds Aron...
...become a little bit of a cult thing," admits Aron...
...Aron and Gailiunas have avoided taking themselves too seriously. "The acting style is John Waters. The plot is so ridiculous that the actors can really be puppets to it," says Gailiunas...
...directors unmistakably have a theory underlying their spontaneity. "People aren't used to comic theater enough to know what to laugh at," Aron says, explaining why they chose to parody a television show. "A sitcom format can draw on pieces of television culture that people are used to, so they know when to expect the climax and laugh lines...