Austin Improv

Excellent cast! This should be a great show.

Weeeeeee!

I'm thinking about getting back into some Maestro! Maybe I could tech this show to get back in the swing of things?

this lineup is redonkulous - can't wait for tomorrow night!

Yep, that was different.

Very proud of our audience that stuck with us through that ridiculousness!

Matt wrote:Yep, that was different.

Very proud of our audience that stuck with us through that ridiculousness!

Extra fucking kudos to Kayla and Matt for doing a hilarious live aerobics video while the drunks were getting thrown out and wandering around.

Roy Janik wrote:

Matt wrote:Yep, that was different.

Very proud of our audience that stuck with us through that ridiculousness!

Extra fucking kudos to Kayla and Matt for doing a hilarious live aerobics video while the drunks were getting thrown out and wandering around.

And just as many kudos to the audience for...
1. Unanimously voting to continue the show through a power outage.
2. Lighting the stage with their cell phones.

This was a truly legendary Maestro. I am glad I stuck around for it.

Edit: And twice as many kudos to Alex for his directorial debut through all of that, plus the second timer Mia winning through all of that, too.

I cannot wait for someone to tell me this whole story, I'm so bummed I wasn't there

Yeah, can somebody write up a detailed recap of what the H happened at this thing?

indeed. i've got scraps and snippets on Facebook and highly regret not being there for something so legendary.

After the show, I was thinking of going for drinks or dancing or something, but then I thought, NAY, nothing I do tonight will be as eventful as what just happened.

Here are my highlights, and please add to what I forget:
1. A "gentleman" in the front row tells us we suck at naming power tools during Category Die. (We did, but it wasn't necessary to tell us.)
2. Justin starts Maestro with negative 1 points because he unsuccessfully tries to name 12 pickles. (I thought you did great, for the record.)
3. Gentleman's lady friend is wasted too, and loudly says she does not understand Pan Left Pan Right.
4. The couple continue to talk and be assholes, and eventually leave during the Happiest Aerobics Video in the World. ("If you don't see kittens falling from the sky, you're doing it wrong!" Nice, Kayla.) Did they get kicked out or just leave?
5. Justin, still bitter from the pickle incident, causes a lightning round scene to last ten minutes because, despite every improvisor and director suporting the scene as God or the Grim Reaper, he refuses to die.
6. Beastie Rap causes a verbal disagreement between Justin and both Kacis over whether his penis is small, he doesn't know how to use it, or both. The audience is amused and uncomfortable. Justin is eliminated.
7. The power goes out, and an audience member yells, "The show must go on!"
8. The show goes on. Justin unsuccessfully tries to sneak back into the show thinking no one will notice because it is dark. (Scenes included a totally dark radio scene, nocturnal raccoon scene with audience cell phone spotlights, dimly lit bowling alley for divorced psuedo-Lesbians in the Bahamas, and a badass Apocalypse sermon by Deano.)

Alex and Roy were amazingly creative and resilient, and I think Roy's going to post on Craigslist for a Hideout Bouncer, right?

That was fun.

Also!!!

The tech guy (sorry, I forget your name!) came down from the tech booth and played guitar for Musical Eye Contact game!! That was my favorite part of the night.

mia wrote: 5. Justin, still bitter from the pickle incident, causes a lightning round scene to last ten minutes because, despite every improvisor and director suporting the scene as God or the Grim Reaper, he refuses to die.

8. The show goes on. Justin unsuccessfully tries to sneak back into the show thinking no one will notice because it is dark.

No comment necessary.

mia wrote:After the show, I was thinking of going for drinks or dancing or something, but then I thought, NAY, nothing I do tonight will be as eventful as what just happened.

Here are my highlights, and please add to what I forget:

1. A "gentleman" in the front row tells us we suck at naming power tools during Category Die. (We did, but it wasn't necessary to tell us.)
2. Justin starts Maestro with negative 1 points because he unsuccessfully tries to name 12 pickles. (I thought you did great, for the record.)
3. Gentleman's lady friend is wasted too, and loudly says she does not understand Pan Left Pan Right.

3.1 There is a scene of String the Pearls that tells a story about the bad things that happen to people who talk at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Gentlemen doesn't see to like this scene.

mia wrote: 4. The couple continue to talk and be assholes, and eventually leave during the Happiest Aerobics Video in the World. ("If you don't see kittens falling from the sky, you're doing it wrong!" Nice, Kayla.) Did they get kicked out or just leave?

4.1 They were definitely kicked out and they didn't leave without argument. Their whole party (6 or so?) left with them. They apparently called the cops (I have no idea what they told them).

mia wrote: 5. Justin, still bitter from the pickle incident, causes a lightning round scene to last ten minutes because, despite every improvisor and director suporting the scene as God or the Grim Reaper, he refuses to die.
6. Beastie Rap causes a verbal disagreement between Justin and both Kacis over whether his penis is small, he doesn't know how to use it, or both. The audience is amused and uncomfortable. Justin is eliminated.
7. The power goes out, and an audience member yells, "The show must go on!"
8. The show goes on. Justin unsuccessfully tries to sneak back into the show thinking no one will notice because it is dark. (Scenes included a totally dark radio scene, nocturnal raccoon scene with audience cell phone spotlights, dimly lit bowling alley for divorced psuedo-Lesbians in the Bahamas, and a badass Apocalypse sermon by Deano.)

8.1 Since the tech booth is now useless, David Zimmerman breaks out the guitar and provides live tech. He also coordinates the the audience in turning their cellphones away and torwards the stage for lights up and down.

8.2 Mia totally wins Maestro!

mia wrote: Alex and Roy were amazingly creative and resilient, and I think Roy's going to post on Craigslist for a Hideout Bouncer, right?

That was fun.

I confirm this.

Those charming people were very much kicked out. After being warned several times by both Alex and Jenn.

They then called the cops on Jenn, who also called the cops on them. They also refused to leave the building, and were yelling in the stairway for a while.

Yay!

Also, the lights sort of went out in two phases. After the initial blackout, there was like 30% house lights still up because of generator power, until it gradually got dimmer and dimmer over the course of 2 or 3 scenes and became entirely black. During the dim scenes Roy directed the audience to just close their eyes and open them when he said: "when the lights come up". It was pretty adorable.



Oh one more thing!! Pre-blackout there was a pretty snarky "Stringing the Pearls" game that went meta and told the story of some audience members who liked to talk during shows and were eventually swallowed alive by the earth. Heh heh heh.