“Tobie loved the fact that it was sweet and thought he’d lucked out. “We did some stuffed jelly doughnuts,” Parry recalls. “We don’t want to be mean we’re making comedy.”īut nothing is quite as it seems. “We try not to totally gross them out,” says Parry. Once cast, the actors filled out questionnaires about their allergies, sensitivities and fears. “I felt horrible all weekend, but when he found out the next week, he said, ‘No, Ms. “It was the first time I created an alternate truth,” she says. Since the following episode was to feature a school play with animals, Lee pretended the fitting was for that episode instead, so that she wouldn’t give away the possible option for the current episode. In another installment, one of the scenarios winds up with Reed wearing a three-piece purple magician’s suit. “Even then we couldn’t do every combination,” says Lee. There were so many blends that Lee and prop master Jill Parry hired a background actor for the day so they could prep for the various possibilities. In one episode, the audience was instructed to choose from a long list of combinations of actions, props and costumes to determine the outcome. “It’s part CIA covert operation,” jokes Lee.
And the cast has no idea where the breaks will occur in the script, or what the options are when the audience begins to vote. “There are so many permutations of how one option can impact the rest of the show,” says costume designer Joyce Kim Lee.Ĭrew members receive insert pages so they can do their prep work, but no one knows what’s going to happen until shoot night.
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