Friday finally arrived this last week. It took forever. Then, on my way out to KU, I wound up with a flat tire. I can’t say where it happened but I do know that by the time that I passed under K-7, my car started shaking and had an uncontrollable rattling noise. I pulled over to the side of the road and found that my driver’s side rear tire was both flat and smoking. Someone who works road side services for the state came and helped me put on the spare. I was able to make it out to class with about 10 minutes to spare. On my way home, I stopped at Tires Plus. The old tire was shot and couldn’t be repaired. So I got a new tire.
That night, I went to see the continuation of the Roving Imp 2 year anniversary called Kingdom of the Crystal Imp. But since there were about 10 people in the audience and about 4 performers, it wound up being an Improv Jam. Then, for the long form, it was decided for everyone who was present who was involved with the show last weekend would be on stage for the long form of Prequel. The show was followed by Dictionary Soup. I got to see a time machine made out of a toilet!
Saturday was improv workshop and then that night was Red Rubber Ball and Biblioclast. Red Rubber Ball is a group that starts out with one of my favorite formats I’ve seen which is living room. The group gets 1 word from the audience and takes off on a conversation that starts with the suggestion and goes who knows where before the end of the show. (Not in the show, but the idea would be the audience gives the word “chair” and they take off and by the end of the living room stuff, they’re talking about the difference between swallows). In the middle of this “living room discussion”, they do scenes based upon what was just said. The second half of the show was Plu-Run (pronunciation, but I don’t know about spelling). This is a 2 person scene per actor. There are combinations that involve each one have stage time with the other improvers…They are usually all the same characters. At 9 it was Biblioclast. The piece of work they used for their main story line, which was chosen by me, was Man of La Mancha. Next month, they will be using Jurassic Park, also chosen by me. (For the record, I wasn’t the only one to give suggestions this time and only 4 of mine have been chosen).
Today is Easter. Just for the record, I didn’t dress up for church. I wore a hoodie. It was too cold to dress up…I actually don’t dress up a whole lot anyway…I’ve only just recently started wearing ties for shows that I’ve been in at the Roving Imp…the ones that I’ve known about. I really don’t like dressing up.
This coming weekend, I will be working box-office at the Roving Imp on both Friday and Saturday nights. But they’re not doing improv because a good few of them will be in Chicago. So instead on both Friday and Saturday night, I’m working box-office for a show called FAT. It’s a one woman show writen by and starring Martha Maggio.
Look for more coming up soon…
