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Anything goes in 'Point Break' spoof

Like, here's the thing: "Point Break Live!" totally shoots the tube. This uproarious interactive spoof of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 blockbuster film approaches garage-theater Dada in its unfettered mix of mosh pit and wrap party.

Created by Jaime Keeling, "Point Break Live!" lets attendees drink and mingle around banquettes and a sunken stage where the show plays out virtually in our laps. Apart from following the outlandish screenplay -- Keanu Reeves' ex-football-star-turned-federal-agent becomes a surfer and sky diver to infiltrate Patrick Swayze's gang of presidential-masked bank robbers -- "Point" owes its hilarity to two elements.

One is the anything-goes approach maintained by directors Thomas Blake, George Spielvogel and Eve Hars and their cast. Tobias Jellinek brings a priceless deadpan to adrenaline junkie Bodhi Sativa (the Swayze character). Spielvogel lays waste to Gary Busey's turn as burned-out Angelo Pappas, and Blake goes for broke as the ill-fated Roach. David Simon adroitly carps as by-the-book Agent Harp; Jennifer Jean wryly skewers Lori Petty's surfer girl; and surfers/FBI goons Jan Milewicz and John Miller pull the film's homoerotic subtext into riotous bas-relief.

The other key factor is the audience, and not just because we endure live video, wind machines, squirt guns and more. (Rain ponchos are available and recommended). Each performance casts an unrehearsed volunteer in the Reeves role of Johnny Utah, as Lisa Renee's bluff Bigelow gives direction, Adam Douglas' stage manager wields props and Christie Waldon's lithe production assistant rifles through cue cards and stunt doubles. At the reviewed performance, a lawyer named Chip assayed the coveted part, kidney-threatening in his uninflected line readings. "Point Break Live!" shamelessly rides the gnarly breakers of travesty until viewers wipe out on the shoals of helpless laughter.