Of Tones, Tiredness, and the Tertiary.

So, yesterday I found this neat little doodad on the #xkcd channel:
http://lab.andre-michelle.com.nyud.net/swf/fl10/ToneMatrix.swf
It's called "Tone Matrix", and it's basically a sixteen by sixteen square grid of tone boxes. Each box provides a single tone for a single instant, based on a continually running "tone starter" that loops the entire square. From top to bottom the tones change from low to high, and left to right is how frequent they occur. It's pretty nifty, you can spell out names to hear what they would sound like, and such (They seem to mostly fit as well), or just random squares all along the grid. It seems to be well made enough that most anything reasonable sounds good; there's a couple ways to make a jarring sound, but nothing major. All around, a pretty cool little gadget.
In my school theatre group, we just finished our OAP (didn't advance for who knows what reason, completely unjust), and we're going to be doing just one more thing before the end of the year:
Our Spring Variety show. Of course, I'll be hosting it (as I have been), but last one there weren't many skits, and most from the same people... so I've been looking around a tad, and I found this skit: It's Who's on First... as if it were written by Shakespeare. Pretty cool, I think me and another guy could pull it off... but to do that, we need to rehearse... to rehearse we need a script... of which, there is none online. So, I had to transcribe the entire nine minute video by hand... that took an hour, and so last night I was exhausted. I wanted to make a post here about it, but I was utterly sick of typing, of looking at a computer screen, and anything that doesn't begin in "sle" and end in "ep!!!" with nothing in the middle. It felt good to crawl in there with Ninja, konked right out...
For the record, the skit can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG1leLrZKHM
These guys are great, hope we can get the skit ready in time.
From what I can tell, the script by itself is naturally funny. The keys of it rely on three things:
1 ) The Audience comprehending the problem, so it's funny
a ) the Issue here is the Shakespearean language. They need to be able to decipher this. A theatre appretiator will be able to readily enough, but I don't know about the average audience member.
2 ) The deadpan of the Abbot character.
b ) Abbot needs to be just as oblivious to the problem as the Costello character, and not the other way around. If he laughs (if I laugh), then it ruins the entire skit, as it makes it look like he's leading the Costello character on.
3 ) The rapid paced dialogue.
c ) This is probably the most critical. This delivers the punchlines quickly, keeps the audience from being bored with an admittedly long skit, and gives motivation as to why the characters don't comprehend the problem: they don't have time to. This is perhaps my greatest concern... we have to know this skit so thoroughly, backwards and forwards, upwards and downwards, longways, sideways, and any other ways you want, to be able to deliver it at maximum effectiveness. We only have a month...
Hmm... any ideas for topics to discuss? I feel more in the mood for topics, rather than life events. All, what, three of my followers? Feel free to make suggestions.
Till then, adieu.