Austin Improv

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 2:30 pm**

Here's the 90% set schedule for the marathon... which is next week. Jeez.

Click Here for a constantly updating schedule compliments of Google.

Marathon Schedule
* Friday 5pm Maestro (games and scenes with happy hour beer prices!)
* Friday 6pm Maestro, part 2 (the exciting conclusion)
* Friday 7pm Flowey Donut (our eight players find their groove)
* Friday 8pm Start Trekkin' (improv star trek)
* Friday 9pm Theatresports (four on four competitive improv)
* Friday 10pm This Week Tonight (improv inspired by the news)
* Friday 11pm Cochise (70s cop drama with Improv For Evil)
* Friday midnight Parlor Games (twisted games with Your Terrific Neighbors
* Saturday 1am guest troupe Available Cupholders
* Saturday 2am guest troupe The New Movement
* Saturday 3am guest troupe Northshore Locale
* Saturday 4am guest troupe Snackers
* Saturday 5am guest troupe Midnight Society
* Saturday 6am guest troupe Starter Kit
* Saturday 7am The Sleepover (an improvised slumber party with Look Cookie)
* Saturday 8am guest troupe No Chaser
* Saturday 9am Pancake Social (a mimosa party and improv cooking show)
* Saturday 10am Ka-Baam!! (improvised comic book adventures)
* Saturday 11am What the Dickens!? (improvised Charles Dickens)
* Saturday noon Student Showcase (Hideout students mix it up with the pros)
* Saturday 1pm guest troupe ComedySportz
* Saturday 2pm Flying Theatre Machine (improv for kids)
* Saturday 3pm Student Showcase (more Hideout students mix it up with the pros)
* Saturday 4pm Play by Play: Cubs vs. White Sox (improv commentary over Major League Baseball)
* Saturday 5pm The Life Game (improv inspired by a live celebrity interview
* Saturday 6pm The Hippodrome (improv beyond the horizon)
* Saturday 7pm After School Improv (improv After School Specials)
* Saturday 8pm Improvised Shakespeare (an improvised play by the Bard)
* Saturday 9pm Holy Sleep Deprivation, Batman! (improvised episode of the 60s Batman tv show)
* Saturday 10pm Musical Maestro (musical games and scenes)
* Saturday 11pm Musical Maestro, part 2 (the exciting conclusion)
* Saturday midnight Dubbed Indemnity (improv dialogue and sound effects over film clips)
* Sunday 1am The Bat (A Harold in the dark with ColdTowne)
* Sunday 2am guest troupe The Institution
* Sunday 3am Musical Armando (scenes and music with A Bunch of Liars and Love Notes)
* Sunday 4am guest troupe Parallelogramophonograph
* Sunday 5am Mystery Meat (a surprise format from Hideout AD, Roy Janik)
* Sunday 6am Soap Opera (improv daytime television with guest troupe Junk)
* Sunday 7am guest troupe McNichol and May
* Sunday 8am The Final Countdown (our eight improvisers on the edge of psychosis)

So the epic difficulty of filling the audience for all these shows is sneaking up on us. Can you help?

We need people to pledge to come see shows at weird hours.

Will you kick off the marathon at 5pm on Friday with Maestro and happy hour beer prices?

Will you stay up all night on Friday with us and our guest troupes?

Will you party with us at 9am on Saturday morning? Free Mimosa party in the greenroom from 9am to 11am -- with free mimosas!

Will you watch What the Dickens!? our very first crack at improvised Dickens which will run this coming November and December?

Will you check out the Cubs vs White Sox with Jeremy Lamb and Craig Kotfas providing play by play and our marathon improvisers dubbing over the commercials?

Will you stay up all night on Saturday with us and more guest troupes?

Will you come to the final show at 8am on Sunday morning to see eight improvisers stripped bare of all their filters, inhibitions and sanity by 40 hours of this thing that we all love? And then join us for a Bloody Mary party with free bloody marys and breakfast tacos?

Pledge your support here.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 2:30 pm**

I want to stress that while this event -is- a fundraiser, the last thing we want to do is continuously beg improvisers for money. What we want out of you is what you do best... supporting, getting the word out, and cheering the crazy people who are doing this on. Especially in the wee hours. It's entirely possible that the 4 am shows will have little audience, but just the fact that the marathon is happening should bring people in to the shows happening during more sane hours. So anyone who can be there in the middle of the night to keep up moral would be most welcome.

I, for one, will be liveblogging the whole thing. More on that later.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 2:32 pm**

Seriously. All of you folks have wicked social networks - use them! This is the kind of batshit insane thing that makes Austin a place that I love to live. Bring out some friends or coworkers and show them a raw piece of Austin weirdness on stage

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 2:37 pm**

The official marathon tag, I've just decided, is 40hourimprov.

So on twitter, use #40HOURIMPROV as a hashtag, and mark photos on flickr with 40HOURIMPROV. and wherever else you crazy kids hang out these days.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 3:05 pm**

Is there an official invite to this floating about on Facebook? I'll gladly invite others and post it on my profile to help promote.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 3:08 pm**

I think it would particularly well if we have one massive invite to the whole event, and individual troupes can work their magic, sending that big invite out to folks and get them to come to their show block (or more!)

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 3:12 pm**

I'm working on one right now.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 3:58 pm**

I just Twittered it to all my 5600 Followers a few minutes ago and put it up my FB Wall. More promotion coming for it from me too.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 4:02 pm**

starkserious wrote:I just Twittered it to all my 5600 Followers a few minutes ago and put it up my FB Wall. More promotion coming for it from me too.

You, sir, are a prince.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 4:07 pm**

Crouch created an event at the same time as me, so he wins.

See if this link works for you: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=88819137918

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 5:45 pm**

REMINDER for all players to stick around for Notes on Sunday from noon until midnight.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 10:34 pm**

Jeff wrote:REMINDER for all players to stick around for Notes on Sunday from noon until midnight.

I will stab you in your sleep.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 10:45 pm**

Matt wrote:
Jeff wrote:REMINDER for all players to stick around for Notes on Sunday from noon until midnight.
I will stab you in your sleep.

Ah, Matt. Good to see that my violent threats are catching on.

I will cut you with a manila envelope.

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 10:49 pm**

Matt wrote:
Jeff wrote:REMINDER for all players to stick around for Notes on Sunday from noon until midnight.
I will stab you in your sleep.

Just take the note Matt....

Posted: **June 18th, 2009, 11:20 pm**

i just want to get drunk with lubu early saturday morning.

no chaser? saturday morning? sounds like an effing good time!

oh, and don't overlook the show before that where someone may get shammed...

Austin Improv

Schedule of Shows and Troupes for the 40-Hour Marathon

Schedule of Shows and Troupes for the 40-Hour Marathon

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