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The day before, a blackout hit the Northeast. Had their cortexes been scanned right then, Veneziale conjectured, “we’d see deoxygenated hemoglobin leaving parts of their brains.” Andrew Bancroft (stage name: Jelly Donut), who wore a black hoodie, said, “I love the science of it.
Twenty people showed up; the group bought them all beer and performed in the basement of the Drama Book Shop, which had regained power.
“I’m fascinated with brains,” he said, after putting on his costume (blue fedora, pink tropical shirt). Broadway's Freestyle Love Supreme, co-created by Hamilton team Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, has recouped its capitalization after 14 weeks, making it … He got in. They got a regular Friday-night gig at the P.I.T.
But I like to dumb it down a little and say, ‘Oh, that little voice that says “you can’t do this” or “that person’s better than you”—he might still be there, but he’s grumpy in the corner, because he doesn’t really have any volume right now.’ The volume, for me, is: What’s going to happen?
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First Look That’s how he got into freestyle improv comedy.Veneziale, who is now forty-three, was in his dressing room at the Booth Theatre, where his group, The group that became Freestyle Love Supreme was set to perform its first show at the Peoples Improv Theatre, in August, 2003. In addition to Miranda, his improv group consists of Utkarsh Ambudkar, Anthony Veneziale, Chris Sullivan and Broadway veterans Christopher Jackson and James Monroe Iglehart. Jun 18, 2019 • 11:57PM
and gained a following.
For the past two and a half years, he has been working with an otolaryngologist at the University of California, San Francisco, to study which parts of the brain are activated and deactivated by freestyling. “I do believe it’s a beautiful adaptogenic skill,” Veneziale said.It was forty-five minutes until showtime.
One of his favorite exercises was the Song Game, in which the performers would pause a scene, ask the audience to shout out a musical genre, and then make up an aria or a country ballad on the spot. Broadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme, co-created by Hamilton team Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, has recouped its investment after 14 weeks, making it one of the first shows of the season to recoup.
Before every performance, they do a warmup designed to stimulate the proper parts of the cortex. News Anthony Veneziale News Watch It Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Perform Freestyle Love Supreme 15 Years Ago in Trailer for New Documentary
The Biz Jan 23, 2020 • 11:37AM As Kail remembers it, Freestyle Love Supreme first came together after he and Miranda started working on In the Heights in 2002.“Lin and Anthony [Veneziale, a.k.a. “And this was the late nineties, so rap was ubiquitous,” Veneziale said recently. When Anthony Veneziale was a sophomore at Wesleyan, he got cut from the soccer team and decided to audition for an improv group called Gag Reflex instead. The Biz
Veneziale’s friend Abe was supposed to come in from Queens and d.j., but the trains were down, so Miranda’s roommate Bill Sherman stepped in to play keys and saxophone.
Ostensibly it charts the show’s unlikely rise to a Broadway run, in 2019, but that achievement always feels like a foregone conclusion. Oct 4, 2019 • 11:27AM
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Activity tends to cool in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which, Veneziale explained, acts as your “monitoring-critic voice,” while the medial prefrontal cortex—“your creative flow”—heats up. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at “Hamilton” through the eyes of a stagehand, who tells us what goes into lighting one of the most successful Broadway musicals.Freestyle Love Supreme knows that, when it comes to rhyming on the fly, it’s all about the prefrontal cortex.A “Hamilton” Stagehand on Telling Stories with Lights