Casting the Hideout's Fall Theatresports Tournament, June 12

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » May 11th, 2010, 4:29 pm

We're bringing Theatresports back to the Hideout this fall and we want YOU to be part of the show.

Auditions will be held on Saturday, June 12, 3-5pm.

Theatresports is the original improvisational theater format invented by Keith Johnstone in the dawn of improv time to skirt the censors in merry old England and spread the virus of improv. Theatresports is currently played in over 20 countries around the world and over 30 cities in North America. The Hideout began its life in 1999 as Austin Theatresports.

Saturday nights at 8pm in September and October, the Austin Theatresports Tournament is taking over the primetime slot the Hideout. Teams will go head to head, challenging each other to scenes and games and anything else that can happen on a stage. Each scene is scored by judges and at the end of the evening, a winner is declared.

To get as many people having as much fun as possible with this run, each show will be broken into two parts -- a short expo round giving newer improvisers a chance to try out this exciting format in front of sold-out audiences, and a full-length, roiling and rollicking Theatresports match between two teams of stone cold bad-ass Austin improvisers. The second half of each show will be part of a bracketed tournament, culminating in the finals at the end of October. This run of Theatresports is being produced by Kareem Badr and Andy Crouch.

Again, we're holding auditions on Saturday, June 12, 3-5pm in the Hideout upstairs theater. PM Andy or email acrouch thegat gmail dthegot com to let us know you're coming.

There will be some rehearsal responsibility in July and August, but it should be pretty manageable.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » May 11th, 2010, 4:47 pm

Oh hell yes.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » May 11th, 2010, 5:22 pm

Best Team Ever: Roulette

Asaf
Beeler
CeeJ

Jessica · Post by **Jessica** » May 11th, 2010, 5:57 pm

Oh, BABY!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » May 11th, 2010, 8:18 pm

Bakers vs Pirates, here we come!

SarahMarie · Post by **SarahMarie** » May 12th, 2010, 3:48 pm

BRING IT!

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » May 12th, 2010, 4:23 pm

When we say Tournament, we mean it:

Who will take this baby home (and then return it for the next champion like they do with the Stanley Cup) ?

Also, please note the hilarity of a trophy being topped with an abstract human figure holding a trophy.

Chuy! · Post by **Chuy!** » May 12th, 2010, 5:57 pm

Your Dad's Friends like trophies...

Justin D. · Post by **Justin D.** » May 12th, 2010, 10:34 pm

Well, damn, I'll be on my way back from Puerto Rico that day.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » June 7th, 2010, 11:16 am

Bump. Auditions this Saturday.

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » June 7th, 2010, 1:29 pm

Because I am dumb: do we form teams, and then come in and audition as teams, or do we audition individually?

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kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » June 7th, 2010, 1:44 pm

Show up as an individual. We're actually not sure yet if we're going to form teams ourselves or have the cast form itself into teams.

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » June 12th, 2010, 10:27 am

This audition is going to be so much fun that the fact it's an audition is irrelevant. You should come for this because it will be more fun than anything else you've done this week.

Chuy! · Post by **Chuy!** » June 12th, 2010, 3:27 pm

I blew it! I meant to go to there and instead watched USA vs. England... I would make a crappy team member anyway... *kicks dirt*

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » June 12th, 2010, 3:35 pm

kbadr wrote: Also, please note the hilarity of a trophy being topped with an abstract human figure holding a trophy.

"You're clever, young man, but it's no use. It's trophies all the way down."