Point Break Live

Point Break Live! - The absurdist stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster that tells the story of former College football star, Johnny Utah, in pursuit of the surfing, bank robbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting adrenaline-junkie-cum-Zen-master Bodhi Sattva.  “Point Break LIVE!” features armed robbery, big-wave surfing, car chases, explosions, no less than two extended skydiving sequences and an indoor monsoon.  This "action" play offers a true cathartic experience, putting you in the water with the surfers, throwing you out the door of an airplane, and robbing you at gunpoint.  Add in the hotness factor - surfer dudes and female stunt doubles - and you have a night of live theater that rivals any show in terms of pure excitement and energy.

And here is what sends the show over the edge: the starring role of Johnny Utah is selected from the audience each night and reads their entire script off cue cards.  This method manages to capture the rawness of a Keanu Reeves performance, even from those who generally think themselves incapable of acting.  The fun starts immediately with the "screen test," wherein the volunteer Keanu’s (usually 5-15 men and women vie for the role), go through a grueling audition process.  The evening’s Keanu is then cast via Applause-o-Meter.