Some Western Pa. Guinness World Record seekers who preceded Frzy's freestyle rap

Frzy is not the only Western Pennsylvania resident to attempt a world record.

The Emmy-winning music artist is just the latest. He rapped for 31 straight hours over the weekend at The Block Northway in Ross.

Frzy, 34, whose real name is Harvey Daniels, hopes he shattered the Guinness World Record for freestyle rap. He must send Guinness a video and other documentation of his performance for confirmation before the record is official.

Under Guinness rules, Frzy was allowed one 5-minute break every hour. He started at 10 a.m. Saturday and finished shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday.

Here are some other locals who went for a world record :

Cookie table

The Monongahela Area Historical Society established a new Guinness World Record, that of “largest wedding cookie table.”

Christina Conlon, Guinness adjudicator, told the Tribune-Review that the tables set up in Chess Park in Monongahela held more than 50,000 cookies.

The minimum was 18,000 cookies, which was set at a Youngstown wedding in 2016.

This attempt in August 2019 was the idea of Laura Magone, Monongahela Area Historical Society president and founder of the Facebook page “The Wedding Cookie Table Community.”

She invited followers to be part of this event. The cookie table is a Pittsburgh-area wedding tradition and includes varieties of cookies from ladylocks and peanut butter blossoms to chocolate chip and nut rolls.

Steepest street

Pittsburgh’s Canton Avenue in Beechview — with its 37% grade — had not only been the steepest street in the city. It was the steepest in the country and the world, until a street in Wales took over highest grade. It hadn’t officially held the title, but because of a campaign waged by residents in Wales that caught the attention of the folks at Guinness World Records, it won’t be.

In July, Guinness presented a plaque to residents stating that the street of Ffordd Pen Llech in the seafront town of Harlech, 245 miles northwest of London, was tops.

Take the stage

Greensburg’s Stage Right! theater company set a new Guinness World Record for fastest theatrical production. It was recognized in September.

The company, which also operates a school for the performing arts, received an email confirming that it successfully set a new world record by staging a production of “Children of Eden” — from auditions to performance — in 14 hours and 30 minutes.

Stage Right! performed the play March 9 at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg, but the confirmation process took some time.

They asked for some clarifications and other information over the course of the waiting period.

Stage Right! officially toasted its record-breaking achievement in November when it performed “Newsies.”

A cast of 96 took part in the nearly three-hour-long performance of “Children of Eden,” which combines the biblical stories of creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah and the flood.

The play selection was announced at 5:30 a.m. March 9, with the performance beginning at 8 p.m.

About 150 people volunteered during the day and 500 turned out to watch the show. The previous 15-hour record was held by a English theater, the Sharpe Academy of Theatre Arts Rickmansworth, for its Aug. 29, 2016, production of “Annie” at Watersmeet Theatre.

Umbrella dance

As part of its own 225th anniversary observance, in August 2012 the University of Pittsburgh celebrated the 100th anniversary of Gene Kelly’s birth in Pittsburgh. The actor, dancer, director and choreographer, who died in 1996, was also a Pitt alumnus. Pitt set a new unofficial Guinness World Record for the “Greatest Number of People Simultaneously Performing an Umbrella Dance at a Single Venue,” an homage to Kelly’s famous dance with an umbrella in the 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”

“A total of 3,524 incoming Pitt freshmen students held umbrellas aloft during a six-minute choreographed dance on the lawn adjacent to Pitt’s Petersen Events Center in Oakland,” according to the school’s news service. The umbrellas were imprinted with Pitt’s 225th-anniversary logo and the words “Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Gene Kelly.” The previous record, set in September 2011 in Bucharest, Romania, involved 1,461 participants.

Do a cartwheel

In June 2014, Pittsburgh-area gymnasts went for the world record for the most simultaneous cartwheels during an event on the Roberto Clemente Bridge on the North Side. The attempt was headlined by 2012 Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas.

The existing record was 482 people performing a cartwheel. Organizers said 500 participated in the event.

Helicopters hovered over the North Shore and Downtown to let videographers capture the feat, which was intended to promote Olympic Day and the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships held in August at Consol Energy Center (now named PPG Paints Arena). Olympic Day was established in 1948 to commemorate the start of the modern Olympic Games. The world-record attempt was one of more than 700 events worldwide from June 14 to 30 to celebrate Olympic Day.

Hand cyclist

For the third time, Attila Domos, a 50-year-old man from Greenfield who is paraplegic, attempted to break the Guinness World Record for longest distance by hand cycle in 24 hours. He made this third try in October at Uber’s test track in Hazelwood. But Domos, who was paralyzed in an accident in 1993, wasn’t able to finish because of some physical issues that eventually landed him in the hospital.

The current world record of 403.8 miles is held by Thomas Lang of Germany.