Great improv weekend

Friday was round 2 of improv thunderdome and it was a great show. All of the teams put on great performances. However, Scriptease won. There are now 2 teams in the final and only one spot left. The next round is in mid-March and it will sell out just like the others. I have learned a lot from participating in the first round, and watching this last round. Experimental improv may get you respect from other improvisers, but funny improv gets the audience to vote for you. Also, rehearsals are very important. If you don't put much into it, then you won't get much out of it. Kudos to the teams who won so far, it has been an exciting new event here in Kansas City.

Saturday was Comedy City night for me. First the 5:00pm show had about 40-50 in attendance and it featured a great group of improvisers. Clay Morgan, Rob Grabowski, Michael Montague, Nick Rigoli, and myself. (sounds conceded...don't care) We put on a great show and the audience definitely got their money's worth. Then it was time to drive down to Paola to do a remote. Again, great cast, great show, great audience. I am beginning to love private gigs more than public ones.

IA has rehearsal on Tuesday. John, Tim, and I will be meeting early to discuss how we will be teaching 50 high school kids the basics of improv. Most likely we will just have them play some warm up games and simple improv excercises. I am sure we will get to some fun improv games towards the end to leave them begging for more.

This weekend is the first public IA show since last November. We have been rehearsing our butts off for it. It should be a much better show than we have put on in the past, we have finally put more effort into rehearsals, and I think it is going to show. For one, we have had one person watch the show and not play in it, and secondly, our group is really starting to work very well together.