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Dance of the Snowflakes

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The setup

Four grown-up snowflakes keep smiling through a community-theater holiday dance while their inner voices realize, one by one, how ridiculous they look.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Dr. Gene Halderman welcomes the crowd to the Dearborn Community Playhouse's first annual holiday pageant, proudly crediting months of hard work, and introduces the Dance of the Snowflakes. As he and three other adults in enormous snowflake costumes bounce through a childlike routine, close-ups catch each frozen grin while their private thoughts turn to horror at how foolish the number is. Every dancer assumes the others are still enjoying it, and their silent regrets snowball from family and coworkers watching in the audience to the sacrifices they made to be there and the indignities of their tight costumes. The four briefly talk themselves into believing the show is a triumph, only for one last embarrassing problem to resurface as the number ends.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

How can a person be so sure something is great for two months and then in a split second know the exact opposite is true?

I'm a 48-year-old black snowflake.

Now they say Gene Halderman, doctor slash dancer.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

In 2015 a cut-for-time follow-up surfaced in which host Dwayne Johnson joined the same community theater's adult performers for a springtime Dance of the Daisies.

ScriptEnglish · 19 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    Gene Halderman

    Good evening. Welcome to Dearborn Community Playhouse's first annual holiday pageant. Thank you. My name is Gene Walderman. A lot of you may know me as your doctor, but tonight I'm just one of the performers in the show you're about to see. This show is the culmination of a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice, and we're really proud of it so now without further ado please enjoy the dance of the snowflakes

  2. 00:31

    Gene Halderman

    is Oh no, is this dumb is this so dumb oh Oh god everyone my wife's here and everyone from work do they think this is dumb maybe I'm overthinking this everyone else seems to be smiling

  3. 01:11

    Dancer

    oh is Is this really dumb? It is, isn't it? At least Annette's into it.

  4. 01:22

    Annette

    This is humiliating. How can a person be so sure something is great for two months and then, in a split second, know the exact opposite is true? Huh. Edgar still likes this.

  5. 01:39

    Edgar

    Holy f***! What the hell am I doing up here? I'm a 48-year-old black snowflake my wife cannot like this I

  6. 01:55

    Gene Halderman

    I paid a man $3,500 to tape this I was excited to watch it back

  7. 02:01

    Dancer

    my grandma flew in for this she brought me flowers I don't deserve flowers I deserve a slap in the face

  8. 02:10

    Annette

    my My sister is getting married right now. And I chose to be here. Oh, kill me. Just put a bullet in my skull.

  9. 02:22

    Edgar

    My wife's never going to want to see my penis again, especially not since it's been bunched up in this tight-ass unitard. I really got to stuff it in there, too. I have to fold it. Oh, god, now I'm thinking about my penis. Oh, it's getting a boner. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got to turn around.

  10. 02:48

    Gene Halderman

    I just had new business cards printed. Now they say Gene Halderman, doctor slash dancer. What the hell was I thinking?

  11. 02:58

    Dancer

    On the way here, I hit a man with my car. I didn't stop because I thought this was more important. But this is nothing.

  12. 03:08

    Edgar

    Oh, man. There's a guy in the audience in a wheelchair. chair i feel like he's looking at me like thank god my legs can't do that i don't know my bonus back what for why

  13. 03:20

    Annette

    backstage we decided to dedicate this show to nelson mandela he doesn't want that

  14. 03:29

    Gene Halderman

    you know what maybe this is good yeah this is good

  15. 03:34

    Annette

    we worked hard on this i'm proud out.

  16. 03:37

    Dancer

    I think people definitely like this.

  17. 03:41

    Edgar

    Everyone's smiling. We did a good job.

  18. 03:51

    OH, NO! MY BONUS BELL!

  19. 04:10

    We'll be right back.

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