Everything Must Go!

So it's been brought to my attention, namely by Lisa Garby, that I haven't updated this blog in... a couple of weeks. There's a reason for that. Namely laziness. Or sloth, if you will. But frankly, I've had a lousy couple of weeks. Things have ranged from jejune to outright craptastical. Having said that, I'm sure that none of you care. Well, that's not true. You're either reading this blog because you're a) my mom, b) a friend of mine, or c) someone who has never met me, and therefore reads this with a kind of awed respect. So it does stand to reason that you would care about what kind of a month I'm having.

In the interest of full disclosure, here is a brief summary: Not getting enough hours at work, hard going looking for a new job, everyone is too busy to hang out, bird flu looms, I wrote a follow up e-mail for an audition and managed to mess up the title of the authour/ director's show, looks like I won't be doing "Lord of the Things" for a while (rotating cast), I'm pretty broke, I ate some expired rice on Thursday, I wrote another e-mail to one of my Bad Dog directors where I mistook him for someone completely different, and I think my new brand of deoderant is giving me a rash.

Oh yeah, and I owe hundreds of dollars in income tax. Almost forgot that one.

Well, there it is. I promise though, that is the last you will hear of my woes. Onto the good news. Theatresports has officially opened! All five teams have finally been announced and named, and here they are for you to peruse:

Everything Must Go! - Ian MacIntyre, James Jeffers, Jim Talyor
RUSH (the Improv Troupe) - Adam Cawley, Brad Sayeau, Tom MacKay
DANG! – Rochelle Wilson, Stefanie Drummond, James Gangl
King Sized Snickers – Merk Wieclawski, Paloma Nunez, Angela Sweeting
The Snit – Becky Bays, Jason Gemmill, Erin Conway

We had our first preview show last night, and boy howdy what a show it was. The first match-up in the rotation was our team, Everything Must Go!, vs RUSH. I'll give you the highlights: the first half of the show was an exhibition round with all 6 players working together...

(Actually, here's something interesting. I was going to write all about the scenes in the show last night, and then I realized that improv scenes are never funny in retrospect. Especially when you're telling people about them. Improv really is the ultimate disposable art form - with a play at least it can be remounted. But with improv it only exists for an instant, and you move on).

So I'll sum it all up by saying we won.

I will say though that this was the most satisfying, fun, and energetic improv I've done in months. Hopefully this show sets the tone for the next few months worth of shows to come. Speaking of, I'm doing another show at the Bad Dog, news of that to come...

Happy Lisa?