Last night was one of those evenings where doing comedy feels amazing. It was the Bridgetown Comedy Festival all this weekend and we had our own shows at our theater. Most of the performers in our 8 o'clock show were double-booked and needed the night off to play at Bridgetown, or were otherwise engaged, which brought our cast of 8 down to 3. We knew we couldn't do our regular show with those numbers - so instead we put together a "best of" kind of at the last minute and had no idea how it would turn out. Luckily, we're all improvaders and it was pretty awesome. Our good friends Nate and Nathan stepped in and helped us out. We had at least 60 people in the crowd, which is always the way when you have no idea what to expect. All our dancers / aerial artists were there, so those pieces were done - and we did a 40 minute longform set with five of us... which was probably the best set of the night. Stacey and I did a Jean Louis set in the second act... at the end of which we had to rush across town to perform in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. We did a 4 person improv set opening for ASSSCAT (the UCB Theater).
The Hawthorne Theater was packed and we had a pretty good set. I say pretty good because we were told we'd have 10 or 15 minutes - so we prepared for that. Around the 15 minute mark we started to end our show, but no lights were pulled... so we kept going. We got about a 25 minute set, so we made it work (remember - we're improvaders, that's what we do) but it wasn't as strong as it could have been.
Either way, it was a great/crazy night to remember - where improv comes out on top!
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Bob, I'd like an official definition of an "improvader." Thanks again for including me last night. Like last year, this is now one of the biggest highlights of my career.
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