Check out this post on the Mumbling Madly blog about being an extra in the Superamas show: Team Seattle: A Behind the Scenes Look

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We found our seats near the front. A beautiful woman in tight fitting jeans and red heals took the mic. Downstage, a man started strumming a guitar. I started tapping my foot to a song I thought I knew, but couldn’t quite remember. A few minutes later the whole cast came downstage to sing the refrain, coaxing the audience to clap along to the uplifting beat. My sister turned to me and whispered,  “I’m not clapping, they’re fucking with us. ”

My personal experience with Superamas has been quite intense and immediate. Its been interesting to work the load-in/tech for the show, as well as being one of the local, high-kicking extras for the performance. I got a sense of the piece from seeing some video during rehearsal for the dance extras, and was initially put off a little by the extreme content. However, after watching a run-through in the theater and seeing a majority of the piece (except for when we had to run backstage to get into place) I felt the power and the draw brought on by the focused execution of the performers.