Warming Up for the Clay Cooper Show

We have been very blessed here at Buckets N Boards Headquarters...in the upstairs-under-construction-area of the Clay Cooper Theatre, some wonderful person has deposited a ping pong table!!!! Nothing like a little Ping Pong to bring out the competitive spirit in all of us! I have to say, Matt has some serious skills, as does the inimitable, Johnny Lonestar, super defensive all-star and also the un-assuming, yet lethal-with-the-under-the-table-forehand, Joe! I, Gareth, am slowly re-acquiring my skill set...we will post a leader board soon...as soon as I get a little more practice in...:)

2011!!!!!

Hello one and all....we had taken a short hiatus from the crazy world of buckets n boards n blogs. So, we are back in the saddle again and ready to ride....tiny bicycles. We are 3 weeks into our 2011 season and couldn't be enjoying it more! We've had some great crowds, and we are really happy with how the show looks and feels this year. We had an amazing film shoot with local cinematographer David Newton....check out some of his amazing work at www.dnvpro.com .....we made a super fun short film that opens the show this year....and plans are in the works for a top notch DVD of our show and many extras to be hopefully filmed and edited by Mr. Newton before this summer...so stay tuned for a whole lot of Buckets N Boards coming to you directly in this wacky wonderful worldwide BLOGOSPHERE!!!!!!!

Good Times in Branson

Woohoo...the sun is shining, the show is going great, and the backstage section of the ongoing Clay Cooper Theatre renovation took some big leaps forward this week. The whole theatre shut down for a week, so that vacations could be had and work on the building could get done...and Buckets N Boards was granted one show to do with as they pleased....so they pounded the pavement, and enthusiastically spread the word around town and they broke their own attendance record with a whopping 355 people, and had a rip-roaring good time, and silliness abounded....

This week we are attempting a new feat in untested waters...the exciting and daring 8:00 pm time slot on a.....FRIDAY NIGHT!!! We know, it sounds crazy, an added show, not even listed on the brochure....but we are flying by the seat of our pants now, and our pants always refuse to stop and ask for directions.

Thanks to everyone out there who has been helping us let people know about our goofy little show...together we will RULE THE WORLD!!!! Or at least, together we will LET THE WORLD KNOW ABOUT BUCKETS N BOARDS COMEDY AND PERCUSSION SHOW AT THE CLAY COOPER THEATRE (ACROSS FROM THE TITANIC) ON 76 IN BRANSON, MISSOURI....and then....i dunno, maybe grab a sandwich, or perhaps soup and a salad, or maybe just a soda, yeah, an ice cold soda...

Clean Comedy For The Entire Family

This is our new slogan. What do you think of it? When we are describing our show to people, we are often asked, "is it clean comedy?" And we are standing here to tell you today, that YES, IT IS. We both have two tiny daughters and we truly wanted to create a show that they would love to watch and would be funny, silly, energetic, and totally appropriate for any age. We feel that we have succeeded in doing this. We have been great audiences at our shows and it seems like word is starting to spread that what we are doing here at the Clay Cooper Theatre is both fun and highly entertaining. We are continuing to have more and more fun every time we do a show, and every show we end up adding something new or just plain getting sillier with it. Thanks to everyone that has been supporting us and helping us build a foundation for our happy little show here in Branson. Here is a link to a wonderful review that a nice lady named Kim wrote about us after seeing our show for the first time.
http://www.1branson.com/forum/t56366.html
Thank you so much Kim!! Feel free to write as many reviews in as many places as you feel inspired to do so. There are also review sections on www.bransoncritic.com and www.tripadvisory.com
Thanks for taking a chance on our show and thanks for your enjoyment and appreciation for whatever it is that we do!!
BNB-G

Early Morning Friday Fun

We started nice and early today gettin donuts for the nice ticket selling folks at Grand Crowne Resorts. We stood outside watching the rain and waiting to get let into the building along with the 80 employees, which was nice cause it gave us a chance to talk with many of the people that we've met here and there over the years. When we got inside we ended up playing a 20 minute set for the whole crew, and they were a wonderfully responsive crowd. I think many of them had seen us do little bits over the years, but it was cool to be able to show a huge group of folks that actually sell the tickets a more comprehensive demonstration of what we do. So after our job was done and donuts delivered, we checked the weather and hoped the clouds would clear so we could play the big boy scout day camp at Price Cutter Park. We played this event a couple years ago and the kids really seemed to dig it. Well our good friend, and long time Buckets N Boards supporter, Janet does a lot of work for the boy scouts. She is rad, she hooked us up with about 200 pairs of misprinted drumsticks many years ago, and that allowed us to give sticks away to deserving kids when we'd play at the landing...we actually are down to our last 10 pairs...so if anybody else knows about any free drumstick factories out there be sure and let us know. So, many thanks to Janet, we got asked to come back and play for this wild bunch of children. They were a great bunch of kids and they let us know they liked the show by making more noise than I thought humanly possible, and also more weird noises than I've ever heard (and we're in a show that is built around weird noises). But it was fun and definitely the first show we've ever played on top of a dugout....and now off to hang with the family, for some long awaited family time, you know with family. Have a good friday evening y'alls. And we'll see you bright and early saturday morning, for our long awaited 10:00AM SATURDAY MORNING SHOW!!!!
BNB
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families in branson

Recent reports have indicated that families are arriving in Branson everyday for vacation! This is great news for the team here at Buckets N Boards headquarters. We have been waiting for the moment to arrive when we could reveal our unrivaled family friendly and fun for all ages super powers to the world... -BNB

Matinees at Clay's

We had a super fun show today. It seems the promo/teaser shows are starting to work, and we had a great turn out. The audience was GREAT! We've realized as we do more shows, that the audience influences how we do the show, and we improvise many parts of the show to see how far we can take some of the silliness and ridiculousness that makes our show so fun for us to do each day. We're excited to find that the creative process with our show continues on every time we take the stage. Come out to see Buckets N Boards at the New Clay Cooper Theatre, and expect the unexpected, unless of course you were already expecting that, in which case....expect the totally expected!!

Buckets N Boards
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