If you see one group of multi-faceted new-vaudevillians at the apex of their ambidextrous and alliterative ability, see THE FLYING KARAMAZOV BROTHERS also. They are not your father’s wild-haired, juggling, flame-throwing, kilt-and-tutu-wearing performers. Each night, the audience is invited to bring objects to the theater for the FKBs to keep airborne in a challenge that ends either with a pie in the face or a standing ovation. As director / founder/ performer Paul Magid says, “Juggling is dropping.” Julia Roberts had to go all the way to India to learn the same thing; you need only see THE FLYING KARAMAZOV BROTHERS.
The show suits all audiences: adults, students, students who watch Glee, tourists, theatergoers, theatre-avoiders, pseudo-intellectuals, Abe Vigoda, the friendless, geeks, hedge fund managers, hedge fund managers who are now Duane Reade
assistant managers, kids (but only gifted ones with a solid background in the classics), disgraced religious leaders, Kardashians, and politicians. Pardoned? Incarcerated? They don’t discriminate.
This performance will feature one of the most memorable and entertaining stunt performed by the Flying Karamazov Brothers: "The Gamble." In this stunt, one of the brothers, called "The Champ," challenges the audience to present him with five items to juggle, wagering that, if he fails to juggle them in three tries, he will receive a pie in the face. The only rules are that the items must weigh more than an ounce, weigh less than ten pounds, be no bigger than a breadbox, not be a live animal, and not threaten to stop The Champ from being a live animal.
