February 2012
32 posts
WatchYoung Burgers, a blog about all things cool in Pittsburgh did a short video about the SCIT! Thanks, Nicole! (Also, check out Nicole on Monday nights with Hush Hush Consensus!)
SATURDAY NIGHT: Musical Improv and Other Mammals
Oh, yes, my pretties … Tonight will be a good one.
Start by tossing your name in the bucket for the SCIT Social -
A low key, no pressure improv jam for everyone! That starts at 6:30, and is always a fun time!
Stay for The LuPones at 8pm. These bunch of musical improv veterans have seen it all: pencil turns gone awry, Mixes gone bad, poorly pinned skirts coming undone because your...
THIS WEEKEND! A buncha awesome shows!
There’s some sweet ass energy in the air tonight for this show. Ellie and Tamara, both of Other Mammals, and Ben and Jerome, both of The Up & Up, jump a-stage tonight as “An Evening with Ben and Jerome” and “The Baby Cannons”, respectively.
If you haven’t seen these two duos in action, you’re in for a great time!
Only $5! Cash! At the Box Office!...
10 things Improvisers should do besides improvise...
Kevin Mullaney - improviser, teacher, podcaster, former head of the UCB Training Center, and he who runs the IRC - wrote a fantastic article on his blog about the 10 things improvisers should do besides improvise.
Part of improvising is bringing life experience to the table. The more you know, the more well rounded you are, the better improviser you are. Shake things up. See a play, read a book,...
Did you miss Tragic Bliss?
Tragic Bliss, the powerhouse duo of Donald Kingsbury (AKA, The Grifters) and Beth Meenan (Hush Hush Consensus, Blue Stocking Babes) played to a very appreciative crowd this past Saturday at 9:30 at the SCIT.
Somewhere in between Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolfe? and Hee Haw, the duo carved out a niche of emotional highs and lows, witty banter and some serious drama. Funny yet dark, Tragic...
WatchBeen to a Monday night? This is what it’s like right before we run on stage!
Tragic Bliss this Saturday!
Tragic Bliss is Beth Ann and Donald Joseph. They are getting Back To Basics.
This what you are going to see is completely IMPROVISED… No one has seen this before, and you will never see this again, all BASED on a word, phrase or geographical place that can fit on the stage shouted out from an audience member…which could be you!
This Saturday at the SCIT - 9:30 PM
With Special...
Del Close Marathon 14 - Submit your team!
The Del Close Marathon is accepting submissions for this years non stop improvathon.
If your group is on the fence about submitting, here’s why you should:
1.) It’s free to submit. HOWEVER, don’t submit unless the majority of your group can go.
2.) It’s fun, and you see more improv than your eyes can take.
3.) You meet a crap ton of people from all over the place.
...
BEN-EFIT for Animal Friends!
Benjamin Saalbach-Walsh and Jesse Landis-Eigsti have many things in common: they are both singer-songwriters who play sometimes silly but often uplifting piano rock, both improvise piano accompaniment, and both like hyphenation. Join them as they join forces with an A-team of improvisers who will interpret the themes of their songs in a series of spontaneously improvised scenes. Proceeds benefit...
The Death Show
This Friday, The Death Show begins it’s regular second Friday of every month slot at the SCIT.
The Death Show opens with the improvisers taking an audience members (they audience member volunteers first) wallet and snooping around. From what they find, they spontaneously create a funeral, complete with mourners and a corpse, and what led up to it.
This Friday, the Death Show will be...
New Level One NOW REGISTERING!
Register now to take advantage of the early reg price! Get in on this now!
LEVEL ONE: PRINCIPLES OF IMPROV
Instructor: BRIAN GRAY
This class uses movement-based exercises, scene work and group exercises to explore the primary fundamentals of improvisation, making you more confident, trusting and graceful on stage. The class emphasizes commitment to your choices, listening, and finding inspiration...
Know Everything!
Will Hines is an improviser, teacher and administrator at UCB-NY. You should all be reading his blog.
I get in trouble for saying that because I deliberately say it in a jerk manner. KNOW EVERYTHING. When someone says “I didn’t know the movie my partner was mentioning” I’ll sometimes say “Well, you don’t HAVE to know it but it would be easier if you knew it.”
And then people are like “Why do...
The Nebby Spectres! This Friday!
Our old Iron City was ablaze In 1845. ‘Twas then these few gave up their ghosts; Indeed they burned alive. In death they entertain themselves With tales of lives now gone. But spectres are too nebby-nosed To stay away for long… We are the Nebby Spectres, an improv troupe with a taste for the macabre.
Cast: Anna Gilchrist as Lotte Renard Ayne Terceira as Sad Patrice Brett Bavar as...
This past weekend - the SCIT + KST
This past Friday, Steel City Improv Theater’s The Union and The LuPones presented an hour long show at Dance Alloy, produced by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.
We couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Two solid, fun sets and a sold out crowd! We at the SCIT hope this is the beginning of a long, fruitful and blissful partnership with the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Thanks to all involved!
Online Resource Library: Improv Interviews
In 2006, our friend Josh Fulton interviewed the most respected improvisers in the country. Interviewees include Charna Halpern, Armando Diaz, Susan Messing, Gary Austin and a whole lot more. They’re all on his blog called Improv Interviews.
The website isn’t well indexed, and a bit tough to navigate. Thankfully, The Magnet Theater posted about Josh’s blog, and indexed them for...
Required Listening!
Improvised New York is a podcast originally hosted by SCIT founder Justin Zell and our dear friend (and frequent SCIT guest teacher) Elizabeth Quinn. All of the podcasts are insightful and interesting, but one will always stand out: Episode 19.
The episode, titled “The Mortality of Improvisation” with Ptolemy Slocum is one of the most spot on “here’s what it is”...
Tonight is Totally Free Monday!
Ahhh Monday! One of our favorite days of the week! Tonight is when you get a top notch improv line up - FOR FREE. Yes, it’s TOTALLY FREE. Which is why we call it Totally Free Mondays.
Hush Hush Consensus bring the shady to improv - They’re on a covert mission to funny. Hush Hush Consensus is Dan Derks, Keara Kelly, Dillon Dialto, Beth Meenan, Ayne Terceira, Brett Goodnack and Nicole...
True.
“Baby Got Back” Appears in 100% of Hot Spot warm-ups.
Fact.
via Improv Nonsense (A blog you should all be reading)
Choosing a class in the Arts
Taking an improv class is fun and can add a whole lot to your life. At the SCIT, we believe “Good at Improv, Better at Life”. Some fundamentals of improv are listening, commitment, making your partner look good, yes and - just to name a few. When you’re deciding on a class in the arts - be it in improv, acting, voice - here are a few guidelines to help you decide.
1. GET...
Sad Patrice got a Twitter
Sad Patrice died in a fire in 1845 - every few months she and a few of her dead friends come to life with Nebby Spectres at the SCIT. Sad Patrice has a Twitter.
http://twitter.com/SadPatrice
Field Trip Friday!
Yes, you’ve heard correct - the SCIT will be closed this Friday, February 3. It’s because we’re taking a field trip!
We’re joining our friends at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater to be part of Unblurred First Fridays. Unblurred First Fridays is an event brought to you by Penn Avenue Arts and showcases a variety of artwork and performances. At Unblurred, you’ll meet...
Congratulations to the WUNDERSTUDIES!
The Wunderstudies, the smash musical improv group, has been accepted to the New York Improv Festival!
This is the first year for the festival, which will be March 21-24 at the People’s Improv Theater in New York City.
Congratulations!!
Follow This Blog!
Chicks with Schticks: a blog by SCIT resident smartie Ayne Terceira. It’s smart, funny and will cut you (much like Ayne).
http://chickswithschticks.blogspot.com
Catch Ayne at the SCIT with a number of her groups: Every Monday with the Hush Hush Consensus, First Saturday of every month at 8pm with the Wunderstudies, Nebby Spectres, Blue Stocking Babes, and sometimes joining the rotating...
Congratulations to the 2011 SCIT Award Winners!
On Saturday, January 21, around 9:30pm, the SCIT Awards were officially born (so was someone else, but more on that in a minute). With a full bar and a whole lot of love, it was an all around awesome time. It was so awesome, there are really no pictures. Well, one:
Photo by Melanie Seigel
Rick & Aaron (tied) accepting their Outstanding SCITizen Award. Here’s a quick run down of the...
