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Improvisational comedy
MEET THE IMPROV ALL-STARS
Check off Year 1 for Austin Improv, a collaborative effort organized by nearly all the improvisational comedy troupes in town. Heartened by this birthday, the Hideout Theatre plans to host — indefinitely — seven different improv shows per week, Thursdays through Saturdays. Austin Improv celebrated the blessed event Friday by treating their fans to an all-star show and a keg party.
Members of 10 troupes threw their names in a hat to form three new teams, each featuring a different style of improv.
The first group energized the audience with a salvo of short, competitive games and the gleefully sadistic fun of shouting "Die!" whenever an improviser faltered in coming up with an instruction manual for rabbits — without using the letter 's.'
The highlight of the evening was the next group's improvised musical about an audience member's day at T.G.I. Friday's and Gattiland. The musical is the staple of Girls, Girls, Girls, who participated in the evening, but the standout performances came from Jordan T. Maxwell as an eerie Gattiland emcee and Chicago transplant Erika McNichol as a superstar of the underworld.
The third group closed with a "long-form, postmodern, mushy riff" taking the audience wherever the improvisers felt like going based on their initial cue of "exercise." They mushed and riffed into a hilariously awkward sketch of three business executives playing musical chairs with a wheelchair-bound character named Irony.
The reformed groups and varied formats kept both the audience and improvisers excited throughout the evening — all before tapping the keg.
— Joey Seiler
XL article about Dec 30 show
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You forgot a paragraph:
Despite the stellar performances of these improvisers, the true award for best performance must be given to lighting tech Roy Janik. Throughout the evening he lit various parts of the stage, sometimes in rapid sucession. He even occasionally made things blue, something I didn't even know you could do.
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PGraph plays every Thursday at 8pm! https://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/pgraph/
