After Dmitri and Alyosha juggled three large boxes between them, Ivan came on stage and demonstrated martial arts kata to the audience, explaining the "kata are dances for hurting people."

 

He got down to the real nitty-gritty thereafter - the three object challenge juggle. The rules were the same as in previous shows. If he can throw three objects submitted by the audience for ten throws, he receives a standing ovation. If he fails, he gets a pie in the face. The objects submitted must weigh less than 10 pounds, be of reasonable size and can be altered three times.

 

On this particular evening, objects selected were green slime, eggs in a carton and a large red heart-shaped balloon, half filled with water. After a little kidding around, Ivan was ready for action. Alyosha assisted by throwing the carton of eggs in, but Ivan couldn't handle the balloon on the first of his three attempts. Using one of his permitted three modifications, Ivan let air out of the balloon so it was mostly water­filled, and succeeded in getting ten throws off before the objects scattered in different directions. The crowd jumped to its feet in thunderous applause.

 

Paolo Barechesto (Dmitri) and Igor (Smerdyakov) are on stage next. Igor takes aim at Paolo with, of all things, a bazooka loaded with one club. He fires it so the club soars to the other side of the stage into Paolo's open arms. With two other clubs he already holds, he cascades briefly.

 

All Karamazovs take to the stage in a line for their minaret segment, a juggling/tap dance/rhythm sequence with taps on their gloves and shoes. Just prior to intermission, they perform a feed with Ivan in the middle. A humorous song then leads into intermission.

 

The second half begins with a spinoff spoof on their "Jewel of the Nile" movie. As Jan (Fyodor) shoots the camera footage behind a cardboard camera, the director (Alyosha) and his able-bodied assistant Kuki (Dmitri) order the crew, cast and extras (the audience) through the motions of the big Sufi warrior scene.

 

Danny (a "volunteer"), plays the hero suddenly attacked by two Sufi warriors (Ivan and Smerdyakov). They surround him and perform Kiki (an ancient Sufi tradition of juggling swords around a victim, vaguely resembling the modern-day 3-3-10 club passing pattern around an individual).

 

Fyodor Karamazov next takes two large boxes from the middle of the wall of boxes at the rear of the stage. He balances four very large boxes on his chin before letting them fall toward the floor. The descending objects are caught by Alyosha, Dmitri and Ivan, who begin passing them between themselves. Following is a flawless 14 box pattern performed by all the brothers except Alyosha.

 

Remember the back drums that were built into the old Karamazov show's backdrop? They have now modernized that theme by inventing portable electronic back drums attached to the jugglers shoulders. Four of the five brothers play backup on these new wave instruments as Ivan struts on stage to play lead. He is attached to an amplifier, and creates different sounds by hitting parts of his body with a lacrosse ball. The ticket for the show is well worth its price for this amusing part alone!

 

Jazz juggling finishes the show. Dmitri leads the feed with everyone but Ivan participating. He joins the others a bit later after disconnecting himself from his amplifier costume. Dmitri again leads the feed as the other four do a weave. Each takes turns leading the feed, speeding things up to the point that it becomes a feed with a continuously changing leader.

 

After two hours, the show appropriately ended with the wall of boxes collapsing on the ensemble at the curtain call.