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This was wonderful.

As an aside, the Pgraph presence throughout the weekend at Coldtowne was King Awesome.

So, yeah, compliments on several fronts.

hubrisnxs wrote: As an aside, the Pgraph presence throughout the weekend at Coldtowne was King Awesome.

I really liked Jam City. I'll try and make it out to more.

That was awesome, guys. Great range of characters, an easy-to-understand but involved plot, and, most importantly, the show was funny. Some of the quiet moments were my favorite.

I'm tempted to nominate Kareem's walk-on as the late priest trying to sneak into his side of the confessional booth without being noticed by Roy who already started confessing as one of my favorite lines of 2008, but he didn't say anything!

Plenty of other great moments throughout the show, people. Good job.

Justin Davis wrote: I'm tempted to nominate Kareem's walk-on as the late priest trying to sneak into his side of the confessional booth without being noticed by Roy who already started confessing as one of my favorite lines of 2008, but he didn't say anything!

As the confessor, staring straight ahead, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the audience was laughing. I desperately wanted to call it out in scene, but I'd promised myself I'd try to play the scenes completely straight tonight.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night.

Villainy's going to get extended by 2 weeks, so you have 3 more chances to catch a show!

That was truly an inspiring show last night, Pgraph. Just when I think I've seen my favorite format (After School Special, 1930s, French Farce, etc.) you guys go and do one that tops them all. I LOVED Villainy and so will you, dear reader. Go see this show!

Another Villainy show tonight. This'll be the 4th of 6. Come wish us well before we jet off to Providence.

Tonight's show also features 1813 Drake, made up of that loveable duo, Andy and Asaf.

I just came up with a good tagline for them, just now as I was writing the above sentence:

"They have to be funny. You know where they live."

There were a lot of friendly, familiar faces in the audience tonight. Thank you to everyone for coming out.

Roy Janik wrote:"They have to be funny. You know where they live."

Awesome.

Now go be busy representing in Providence.

Is it normal to cry during an improv show?

If you missed the last Villainy show, PGraph showed us a tragic anti-villain, played by Roy, who starts out scary enough, living in a sewer, scaring people into giving him food, hunting for small children and animals, and seems to have a creepy obsession with one family's daughter Nadine (played by Kaci), singing her name on his way to the sewers. However, things turn for the tragic route when you learn his backstory, about how he was taken from his parents at a young age and forced to live in the sewers from then on out, and that the reason he obsesses over Nadine is because she reminds him of his mother. In the end, he dies alone, just before having one last dance with his mother as the lights slowly (maybe a bit too slowly) fade out.

It was the saddest improv show I have ever seen. Now THAT is how you do improvised drama.

But not only that, it was funny, too.

Kaci: "So the sewer led from Germany to America?"
*thunderous laughs and applause*
Roy: No! From there, I crawled down to a dock, where I hid in a pipe in a boat! And then when I got to America, I crawled into another pipe that led me here!"

Spaztique wrote:...as the lights slowly (maybe a bit too slowly) fade out.

wow

ChrisTrew.Com wrote:

Spaztique wrote:...as the lights slowly (maybe a bit too slowly) fade out.

wow

when i tech for one AM I bring lights up slowly throughout the intro. When the lights are at max, the intro ends. Then I begin fading the lights out ever so slowly for as long as requested by terp and tami from after the intro until the time limit ends.

its like the lights were screaming "YUO=FAGOT" to David when in reality they were not above normal speaking volume hur

Tomorrow (thursday) is the last Villainy show in the run. So far our villains look like this:

1: Kareem claws his way to the throne by killing lots of peasants, ruining a lord's life, and cutting off a finger and a thumb.

2: Valerie is a violin player who's raw ambition causes her to rule the local community symphony with an iron fist, culminating in her firing everyone else, and ultimately getting brained with a tuba.

3: Kaci plays a grave-robbing girl who dreams of being a man, and with the help of an ancient knife and the death of several innocents, she gets her wish. BUT AT WHAT COST??

4: Val and Kareem team up to play a pair of overbearing and overprotective parents who have built a wall around their house, and who used to torture French people for a living.

5: Roy plays a sewer dwelling monster of a man, who's love for his long-dead mother (killed by the nazis) is the thing keeping him alive, and the thing that leads to his death.

What will the 6th and final show bring???