Improv Olympic
If I were in a traveling Improv troupe, we would probably know each others' strengths and weaknesses, what the others were best at acting, we'd probably have a few scenarios that previous audiences have liked.
The troupe I saw at Improv Olympic had a leading man who did a few monologues and told stories about his trips with an organization called "Up With People". He probably told a few different stories each night. Then, offstage, the rest of the troupe would whisper to one another. Probably something like "Lets do that one where we're getting an exchange student." Or not even that, but probably like we would do in 4405, grab two people, hurl them onto the stage and say something to them to start a scene.
Because they were always acting together, the troupe members who weren't onstage at the time, knew when a particular sketch was losing its altogether funniness and they would rush the stage and either start another scene or put a spin on the one that was going on.
A man and his fiance are talking when the man's friend comes in right as the girl says "I'm sorry, I just really don't want you to have any strippers at the bachelor party" and the friend is completely freaked out now. The girl offers to hook him up with her friend Carol..
"Carol? She's a slut."
Suddenly Ike bursts onto the stage. "Heeere's Carol!"
Four lumberjacks stand in the woods.
"Okay, the most important thing here is that none of us are gay."
"GAY? I'm the straightest guy here!"
"Well, there is a gay among us. I found ~this~ in the back seat of the truck"
~takes imaginary prop~ "Martha Stewart Living? Well it's not mine!"
"Oh come on! I mean look at your shoes.... You are obviously--
It's like the show "who's line is it anyway" only with less obvious structure.
The troupe I saw at Improv Olympic had a leading man who did a few monologues and told stories about his trips with an organization called "Up With People". He probably told a few different stories each night. Then, offstage, the rest of the troupe would whisper to one another. Probably something like "Lets do that one where we're getting an exchange student." Or not even that, but probably like we would do in 4405, grab two people, hurl them onto the stage and say something to them to start a scene.
Because they were always acting together, the troupe members who weren't onstage at the time, knew when a particular sketch was losing its altogether funniness and they would rush the stage and either start another scene or put a spin on the one that was going on.
A man and his fiance are talking when the man's friend comes in right as the girl says "I'm sorry, I just really don't want you to have any strippers at the bachelor party" and the friend is completely freaked out now. The girl offers to hook him up with her friend Carol..
"Carol? She's a slut."
Suddenly Ike bursts onto the stage. "Heeere's Carol!"
Four lumberjacks stand in the woods.
"Okay, the most important thing here is that none of us are gay."
"GAY? I'm the straightest guy here!"
"Well, there is a gay among us. I found ~this~ in the back seat of the truck"
~takes imaginary prop~ "Martha Stewart Living? Well it's not mine!"
"Oh come on! I mean look at your shoes.... You are obviously--
It's like the show "who's line is it anyway" only with less obvious structure.
posted by Mabreg at 10:30 AM
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