improv everywhere

Note: I highly recommend following the link below to watch this video before reading the note on it. It is guaranteed to make you laugh
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/03/09/food-court-musical/

Another performance group that I absolutely love is Improv Everywhere. The group was created in 2001 in New York by Charlie Todd, an actor who decided instead of waiting around for a theater to hire him, he would make his own theater in the city. The group has often been compared to flash mob groups, but Charlie Todd explains Improv Everywhere started long before flash mobbing became popular.
The group goes out causing unexpected, random situations in mundane locations, and causes "scenes of chaos and joy". They have performed, or created over 80 situations in the past years that have gone from throwing a birthday party for a stranger where everyone pretended to know him and called him by a different name and gave him gifts, to getting thousands of people to casually take off their pants on the subway while acting normal. When other people are now aware what is the reason for the odd behaviour they get startled, scared, happy, angry... the important thing is they are moved, and an otherwise mundane, unremarkable moment is now memorable and significant.
I find Improv Everywhere to be truly inspiring because by changing the common behavior of a large group of people in public places they transform the space, they take people out of their ordinary mindset and create possibilities for new ways of doing things.
One of my favorite performances is Food Court Musical, where undercover actors staged a musical at the food court in a mall. A woman working at a hot dog place spontaneously bursts into song, and more and more people keep on joining her. The rest of the people are completely confused and bewildered, they have no idea what is going on. All in all, it was a great laugh... and isn't that ultimately what life is about?