National Free Improv Day

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » October 5th, 2006, 4:47 pm

an idea: National Free Improv Day.

thoughts: Easy to implement, easy to advertise, hopefully not too hard to get other cities to go along with... similar efforts like free comic day a huge success.

discuss.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » October 5th, 2006, 4:58 pm

Take a look at the Free Comic Day website.. That should give you some idea of what it would entail.

Basically, it's a way to achieve national advertising and promotion for something that translates to a local audience. Hey, Free Improv Day? Keen. Where can I see improv locally? A check of National Free Improv Day dot com reveals that improv is going on at the Hideout and Coldtowne Theater.

I bet we could get a decent number of groups across the nation to join us.

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » October 5th, 2006, 8:04 pm

Yeah, there's a Free Yoga Day, too, which as far as I can tell is very successful.

I think there should be free improv one night a week anyway, but that's a different issue.

ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » October 5th, 2006, 11:33 pm

Champion idea. Let's do it. Let's discuss this soon. Another fun way to put Austin on the improv map.

andrea · Post by **andrea** » October 6th, 2006, 12:19 am

i'm sure this has been posted elsewhere on the board, but on october 19th, there is free theater day: http://www.freenightoftheater.net/.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » October 6th, 2006, 12:22 am

We talked a bit about this at the last AIC meeting... what came of that discussion (tying into the free theatre night out)????

Clueless,
Sara

erikamay · Post by **erikamay** » October 6th, 2006, 6:09 am

i likey the idea of just having a strong tie in to the theatre day.

cuz we are theatre (in my very subjective book at least).

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ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » October 6th, 2006, 10:42 am

Thursday Night Awesome is the AIC show doing the free night of theater. Tickets already sold out!

The lineup that night is:
Kerri Lendo
Improv for Evil
Buddy Daddy
Scott Chester
McNichol and May

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » October 6th, 2006, 10:44 am

ChrisTrew.Com wrote:Thursday Night Awesome is the AIC show doing the free night of theater. Tickets already sold out!

Whoa! Forget all this free theatre talk. Someone wanna explain how the hell we sold out TNA 2 weeks out? What caused that?

And further more, if TNA is actually sold out already, there should be zero conflict if we put on a free show in the downstairs theatre. I'll be out of town, but someone should get on that!

ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » October 6th, 2006, 11:10 am

Wait Wait Wait Wait
http://www.freenightoftheater.net/show_results.cfm

Go there. THAT'S what I meant. TNA is the show being promoted by free night of theater. I apologize if my words were all funkily placed.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » October 6th, 2006, 11:15 am

Ohhhh, ok.

So we were already on this shit. Awesome.

Brings up an interesting point, though. Just getting a free show listed on that site sold a show out 2 weeks in advance. Granted, we won't see any money from it, but we'll have a packed house. Hmm.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » October 6th, 2006, 11:26 am

We only sold out of the 20 tickets we released to this program for that night...there will still be 35 more tickets available that night for purchase.

we are negotiationg in maybe doing this some more during the month of free theatre festvities.

ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » October 6th, 2006, 11:28 am

Yes, "sold out" according to the Free Night of Theater website.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » October 6th, 2006, 1:24 pm

erikamay wrote:i likey the idea of just having a strong tie in to the theatre day.

cuz we are theatre (in my very subjective book at least).

I say we do both. Pick a thursday during the height of the slooowwww summer slump and promote it as free improv day.

*national promotion of improv specifically
*heightened awareness of the AIC within the national improv community
*local promotion of our particular improv.

ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » October 6th, 2006, 1:29 pm

Warning! Dream Land Post:
What if we heightened the nuts off of that and made it an event where every improv group in the world performed that day for free? Of course, it's not likely that it will all be on stage, but it can be on sidewalks, parks, bus stops, on the phone, whatever. The performances can be whatever just to promote the "World Improv Free Day."

If we started now I bet we could get a huge massive list of people/groups. And then even more people will be excited about the energy of Austin Improv.
/DLP

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