Improv Everywhere Invades Grand Army Plaza!

I have the biggest hard-on for Improv Everywhere. Perhaps best known for their annual No Pants Subway Ride (which is going on nearly a decade of magnificent pantsless-ness), these guys and gals brought their latest mission, "Mute Button," to Grand Army Plaza!

23 actors and 2 well-trained dogs spread out at the north end of the park and went on "mute" at coordinated intervals. Among the performers were a group of break dancers, a saxphone player, a fighting couple and a bible-thumping preacher. It's pretty amazing to watch.

Charlie Todd, Creator of IE, says of the mission's location:

Since the location had such steady turnover, with new people constantly walking by, we had an incredible amount of great reactions from people throughout the mission. People of all types stopped to figure it out. It was so much fun watching people go from confusion to laughter as they realized what was going on and how many people around them were a part of it.

Maybe for their next Park Slope mission they can hire a bunch of actors to emerge gleefully from the Pavilion acting all the world like they didn't just walk out with a pocketful of bed bugs.