If you’ve not been in the loop or if you haven’t received an e-mail from me in the past few days labeling you as a pussy,
tonight at midnight is the first Jammin’ With Ralph at UCB NY.
The UCB Theatre’s monthly improv jam!
Think you have the improv chops to jam with Ralph? Prove it!
Hosted by fwänd!
The basic gist, as I understand it, is you put your name in a hat. If you get picked, you go on stage and improv with some strangers. While the PIT has improdome, which are three person groups, this is a little different in that everybody is flung together by fate… curious ironic fate.
Although I have been in the worst improv slump of my life recently, I’m going to give it a shot. Every time I say this to someone in one of my classes, however, they universally say “You?! You are going to put your name in?!” This isn’t really filling me with overwhelming sense of confidence… ah well, I guess that’s what the PBR is for.
Read on…
UCB NY Theater announced their newest addition to Harold Night yesterday, BASTIAN which premieres Tuesday, February 13th.
Featuring:
- Brian Barrett
- Margaret Carey
- Brandon Gardner
- Adam Frucci
- Lydia Hensler
- Molly Lloyd
- Oscar Magallanes
- John Murray
In addition to the announcement, Jim Santangeli is now a member of 1985, with Charlie Sanders leaving 1985 for Reuben Williams, and John Frusciante is the newest member of T.R.U.C.K.S.
Congratulations to all!
Yeah, yeah, we know. It seems like some piece of fantastic code I hacked way back in the day does not like the the upgrade I just performed. So, you get this very exciting, white page layout until we figure out what went wrong.
Welcome to the future. I hope you brought your flashlight.
Okay, I think I’ve figured it out — As such, I’de like to introduce you to our new site design. I’d been meaning to fix a few problems that didn’t play well with IE, but hopefully they are all fixed… If you’re having any troubles, please feel free to drop me a line… or look at it in Firefox. I’ve still got a lot of work to do, so please be careful of sharp corners.
For all the credit I give Mick Napier and his excellent book Improvise, learning the rules of improv as taught by Del Close in Truth In Comedy is a necessity. Mick teaches a far more organic form of Improv that, while being a great addition to Del’s teachings pushing forward an improviser stuck in a rut, it’s major failing is if you aren’t following the ground rules in improv chances are your scenes will suffer.
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