A new look at GCI

So you've been to a show or two, and you're feelin' pretty good. You think you've seen it all, and you think you've seen it from every angle. Front row. Back row. Maybe even the side by the merch table because your ride got lost and you showed up half an hour late. But we're pretty sure you've NEVER seen Geva Comedy Improv like this before. These Kevin Leas originals are merely hours old, capturing Friday night's Theatre Sports in a whole new way. Captions to come when he wakes up.

Stone cold Colbert

Saturday Night will rock your socks...

REMEMBER LAST TIME?

PICTURED: ADAM sings the opening song from the High School's production of CHRISTMAS CAROL RENT. It was stellar.



CITY COUNCIL SATURDAY NIGHT; $7; GEVA THEATRE; 1030 PM!!
COUNCIL: Charley, Adam, Mike
TOWN: Mookie, Liam, Paul, Swithun, Brian

Friday Night's all right...for Theatre Sports!

This Friday Night things'll be poppin' in The Nextstage! Here are the teams! Get your tickets now; the show starts at 10:30 pm, and tickets are only $7! www.gevacomedyimprov.org!!!

friday night -

host - brian

music - jim and arthur

judge - tim

team 1 - mike, beki, and charley

team 2 - swithun, paul, and liam

GCI on The Mix 100.5 fm Friday!

Hey, gang, I'm going to party like it's 2299 this Friday Morning on Mix 100.5 fm's The Morning Mix with Andrea and Chuck. (Sadly, though, my hero Doug Emblidge will not be in. Boo!) I'll be touting this weekend's shows: Theatre Sports on Friday the 26th and City Council Improv on Saturday the 27th! Tune in! I'll be there starting at 7:00 am.

Get your tickets to the shows at www.gevacomedyimprov.org or by calling 232-Geva (4382). Nice.

- Tim

Saying our goodbyes

More improv classes!

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an improvisor? Well, here's your chance! Geva Comedy Improv is excited to announce improv classes here at Geva Theatre Center! Whether you're a beginner or have cups of experience, we've got a class for you, filled with as much fun as insight. Classes are every Thursday from June 15th to July 20th from 7:00 pm to 9:00, and will give you everything you need to know about the pappy-slappin' theatre form known as improv! For more details email sbewlay@gevatheatre.org or call 232-1366 x 3035 for more info!

three weekends left!

How this stuff works.

Making the ads for Team G has always been a lot of fun, ever since the early days of my pointing at the screen and asking HOLDEN to work his computer magic to make things look the way I envisioned them. I'm getting a little better at the whole Photoshop / Illustrator intricacies, but since I've never really read instruction manuals and don't know any technical terms, I run into problems all the time and don't know how to fix them, so I'll just scrap the project and start over again. Being that I am the most impatient of all GCI members.

I've always wanted to take team pictures in some sort of theme, and cooks just seem really funny to me. And besides that, there's the fact that my favorite picture of U2 was taken with them as chefs and Brian Eno as the Maitre'd for the Passengers album. So I asked Geva's costume goddess AMANDA to supply us with costumes, and all these chefs outfits are actually those of Five Course Love, which debuted at Geva Theatre Center and just finished a run in NYC. The props were supplied by MARK BISSONNETTE of Prop Shop fame.

BRIAN brought The Camera, his million-dollar, Hubble-Ain't-Got-(scum bib)-on-me monster truck of the photographic world, and took a bunch of pictures; picking which one to make for our next flyer was no real problem, though: just look at BRIAN - far left, with that grimace on his face. I cannot stop looking at it. Hilarious.

Again, since I'm so amatuer-ish, I couldn't get the magnetic lasso to not make life miserable for me in trying to cut the picture out after desaturating and cropping. So I spent an hour erasing the background at like, 600%. And yes, SWITHUN is that cute that close up. PAUL is not.

Here's what I did tinkering around after I finished. There's a nice, big, fat flyer in the works, one that you'll hopefully see at your local coffee shop or Tom Wahl's sometime soon for the last three show weekends of SEASON III. You should make this picture your desktop. I mean, really. LOOK at BRIAN. Cute little dumpling, that one.

Rehearsal shenanigans!

We're getting ready and physched for our next round of shows, comin'atcha MAY 26th and 27th. Theatre Sports and City Council will be the way of the evenings, so start making your plans and getting your tickets! www.gevacomedyimprov.org or 232-Geva (4382) for tickets and deets!

CHARLEY comforts our newest improvisor.

SWITHUN and BEKI make good on a scene.

LIAM (back from his Arkansas stint with GCI O.G. JOSH), ADAM, and MOOKIE are proof: rehersing improvisational comedy is serious business.

Bethany Bonowitz's pictures from MICETRO!

MOOKIE (c) takes the audience's votes, and CHARLEY (l) is crowned this year's MICETRO champ! ADAM, although improvising courageously, winds up number two.

ADAM gets a little noir-y in his final scene.

JOANNA and CHARLEY try to get the stick out.

ADAM performs a one-man scene.

PAUL performs a first date scene with an intrepid audience member!

MOOKIE warms up the improvisors for the improvaganza!

The Improvisors are introduced...let the best person triumph victoriously!

We are not geeks. We swear. No, really.

Lost (Fallout) Boys

FIASCO - The Volunteers!

We'd like to thank everyone that came out to our successful six-week run of FIASCO - The Hospital Season! And special thanks to Tim (l) and Brad (r), who helped set up the U of R's Drama House for all theHilarity. Thanks sooo much!