A Very Deathly New Year's!

Well, we'd love for you to get your tickets to tonight's IMPROV MURDER MYSTERY, but we've been told it's already sold out!!! Thanks to everyone that came out last night to see one of our rockin'-est, bestest THEATRE SPORTS shows ever!

If you are making it out to tonight's show, here's the cast of chracters:

Setting: the Prique Family Estate - New Year's Eve 2005 - A Party

Stanley Prique (Brian Daniel) – A professional wine and spirits critic who recently took over the Prique family estate following his father's mysterious and untimely disappearance. Well-dressed and snooty, this bachelor has no qualms about telling people what he thinks of them. It's an affliction that could be deadly.

Dick Whipley (Paul Nellis) – A by-the-book cop who is fresh on the beat. Can this determined man crack the case in less than an hour?

Jacques Bublé (Mike Curasi) – As the Prique estate's grape picker for several decades, this poor immigrant has toiled in the fields for years only to be ridiculed by his new boss Stanley. He believes that he's the real source of the Prique's success and tired of being ignored. Could there be something more sinister planned for those pruning shears?

Looker Steele (Josh Rice) – Once the former spokesmodel for the Priquebrand of Sparkling Wine, Looker was horribly disfigured in a cork-related accident and rendered unable to ever model again. Currently working as a spokesperson for Miller High Life (the Champagne of Beers), could Steele have returned to the Prique household with revenge on the mind?

Johnny Marks (Adam Litz) – The Prique Family's sterling salesman has been the top figure in marketing for more than a decade. Accustomed to a life of luxury, Johnny often crashes his BMW just so he can buy a new one. This year, Stanley decided to cancel his yearly $250k bonus citing "fiscal difficulties" – was it a decision that may have left Mr. Marks in a murderous rage?

Alphonse deMuteé (Charley Beller) – Dick Whipley's faithful sidekick. As a man of no words but keen intellect, he's said to understand over a dozen languages. Recently, an offensive Prique ad campaign really boiled his blood. Can he keep it together and impartially solve this crime or was it enough to drive a mute to kill?

M. Night Shyamalan (Swithun No) – A famous movie producer who is desperate for cash. Stanley's father had promised him financing for his next movie but disappeared before the deal could be signed. Stanley has said the money would only be given "over my dead body".Was Manoj the last person to do more than "see dead people"?

Theodore Mosher III (Liam Scahill) – A young handsome man who graduated from the Manhattan School of Butlering. Theodore has been loyally employed and living in a corner of the Prique Manor for years. However, Stanley's insistence on long hours and his refusal to allow Mojo's seven year old son Jackson to live on the premises have driven Theodore back to drinking. What exactly did the Butler do?

Guy Perrineaux LeChat III (Tim Goodwin) – Guy is a Frenchman with class, money and absolutely no discernable English skills. Upset about Stanley Prique marketing their wine as Champagne, Guy arrived at the mansion tonight with a mission to set things straight. Will his fists do the talking when words fail?

Ginger Kincaid (Josie Schmitt) – Ginger was the former mistress of Stanley's father and has continued to live at the Prique estate. She's a snooty fortune-teller who acts like a mother to Stanley but was shocked and dismayed when she received no inheritance after Mr Prique's disappearance. Used to a life of luxury, Stanley's recent talk of evicting her has only further fueled her tantrums! Does this signal a bad omen for someone's life?

Friday Night's THEATRE SPORTS schedule!

Come cheer your faves this Friday Night! Get your tickets @ www.gevacomedyimprov.org or 232-Geva (4382)!

host - tim
judges - charley, paul, mike
music - jim
team 1 - swithun, joanna, beki, chris
team 2 - josh, liam, brian, adam

Happy Holidays!

Crewe of GCI wishes you and yours a happy and safe holiday season! Eat lots, hug all your family members, and drive carefully! We'll see you next weekend!

GEVA COMEDY IMPROV workshops!!!

By popular demand, the Geva Comedy Improv troupe will be offering Improv workshops starting in January!!! This six-week course, led by GCI vet ADAM LITZ, will show you the tricks of the trade! Learn about improv guru Keith Johnstone! Play games with your favorite GCI improvisors! Discover what it takes to make a great scene! All this and more with the Geva Comedy Improv workshops.

The deets: classes are from 6 pm to 8 pm on Thursday Nights, beginning January 26th thru March 2nd out at the University of Rochester! To register for classes, email sbewlay@gevatheatre.org, or call 232-1366 ext. 3035. The course is $120 for the six-weeks.

Register today! Spots are limited!

Yours,
Geva Comedy Improv

Video of THE PROPOSAL from City Council Improv!

Hey -- check this out!

KEVIN proposes to SARAH in Big Luigi's Pizza Shoppe!

The Morphing of Brian

BRIAN shaved his beard!

Grrr... angry Brian

Mellow, 60's Brian



Grunge 90's Brian

70's pimp Brian

80's pimp Brian

Friendly Police officer Brian


Just BRIAN!!!!

Just in time for your holiday shopping!!!

The time has come...to order yo'sef a fancy-pants tee-shirt!!! Check out our new tee-shirt ordering system at www.gevacomedyimprov.org, or by simply going...HERE!

NECRO VALLEY IMPROV show!

This Thursday night, y'all, we have a once-in-a-lifetime gig:

THE NECRO VALLEY IMPROV TEAM -- consisting of members from Geva Comedy Improv and the cast of Old Jake's Skirts -- has their first and last-ever show at the U of R!!! It's the essence of improv!

There we were last night at Geva Theatre Center's Holiday Party when the idea was struck...why not have a kick-ass improv show in a few days? Calls were made, more free wine was imbibed, commemorative holiday balls were taken.

And then we went to see SYRIANA and all fell asleep. But that's neither here nor there.

Deets: Thursday the 15th, 10:30 pm to midnight at the Drama House at the University of Rochester. Free? Sho' nuff.

-tim

p.s. Hey -- check out the fantastic OLD JAKE'S SKIRTS, which is a part of Geva Theatre Center's Big Theatre for Little People...go to www.gevatheatre.org for all the necessaries!

Who's the best? Who's your favorite?

The other night Team GCI held court at ACME, the official post-FIASCO party house. And by "official post-FIASCO party house," we mean that it's the place we ended up at after our last episode of FIASCO.

Anyhoo. We had a riling debate over our favorite bands, favorite solo artists, and favorite guitarists: everything from The Rolling Stones and Django Reinhardt to Better Than Ezra and The Grateful Dead. And most the most influential band? The debate raged on.

So: a little audience participation, if you will. Let us know your favorite band, and why, and then tell us who you think is the most influential band. And since I'm posting, I'll start with mine.

Most influential: The Beatles. I mean, come on. They're the standard by which everyone else is measured. To rip off an advertising tag line from Elvis, before anyone did anything, the beatles did everything. (as far as bands are concerned.)

Favorite band: Crowded House. I might make prospective girlfriends watch Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been, I might know more obscure facts about U2 than The Edge himself, I might listen to Ministry's "Just One Fix" ten times in a row. But when it comes down to it, I enjoy the dulcet tones of Neil Finn and Crowded House over everything else. Much love and respect to Paul Hester.

-tim

GCI gets some improv love from OLD JAKE'S SKIRTS!

We'd like to thank MATT and MIKE of Geva Theatre Center's Big Theatre For Little People Production of OLD JAKE'S SKIRTS for coming to our rehearsal last night and having some fun. Extra long scarves, strange ways to get to the Brooklyn Bridge, and "secret friends" were all part of the action. Check out OLD JAKE'S SKIRTS in the Nextstage at geva Theatre Center soon!

CHARLEY (blurred from laughing) enjoys a scene with MATT and MIKE.


MATT suggested we play "pan left," and you'd think that by now we'd know our right from our left.

More pics from Saturday Night, courtesy of Bethany!!

Here's the gang after the show!

Team GCI builds the Transcontinental Pudding Line!

Rent the Christmas Musical ends with touching advice from Tiny Tim.

The Council consults the Crystal Ball.

Hardcheese is on the case, and gets a little help from Metal Detector Jim.

Love is in the air at CITY COUNCIL IMPROV!!!

If you weren't at last night's CITY COUNCIL IMPROV show at Geva Theatre Center, you missed some excitement!!! Geva Comedy Improv was the setting for an audience member's proposal of marriage to his girlfriend...congrats, KEVIN and SARAH, and best of luck!!! Thanks to Bethany Bonowitz for some great pictures...more to come!

And thanks to everyone else who came out and made this weekend of shows a really special event for all of us. You rock, Roc-city!!! Start planning...our next round of shows come December 30th and 31st!!! Spend your New Year's with Geva Comedy Improv!

CITY COUNCIL IMPROV -- The Holiday Edition -- TONIGHT!!!

Hey! Thanks to everyone that came out last night and saw another amazing manifestation of Theatre Sports!!!! Geva Comedy Improv continues the frolic with City Council Improv tonight -- December 3rd -- in the Nextstage at Geva Theatre Center!

Tickets? $7 each -- cheap! Get 'em at www.gevacomedyimprov.org, y'all. Or 232-Geva. It's gonna be Holidayriffic and spectaculastic! Drink specials all night, prizes to give away, merriment to be had! See you tonight!

GCI (and SHEAR MADNESS) to conquer the radio!

Friday December 2nd GCI-er TIM will head down to 90.5 fm WBER to chat up the fantastish improv weekend we've got coming up. Joining him will be LARRY BULL, with whom TIM is in the Mainstage Production of SHEAR MADNESS. Tune in!!! Sometime between 8:30 am and 9:30 am.

FRIDAY NIGHT THEATRE SPORTS!!!

Get'cher tickets now for the slam-danginest, hap-hap-happiest throwdown this side of the Genesee! Your favorite improvisors get brolic this Friday December 2nd as Theatre Sports drops a bomb of improv over you, the fablastic audience!!!! Here's the schedule for Friday...

Host -- Doran
Music -- Arthur and Jim
Judging -- Joanna, Brian, and...?
Team 1 -- Beki, Tim, Adam
Team 2 -- Paul, Liam, Swithun

Get your tickets now!! Only $7! There's gonna be prizes, there's gonna be well-meaning frivolity, there's gonna be fireworks! And by fireworks, we mean lots and lots of cheering.

...and don't forget about Saturday Night! It's the Nextstage Big-Tent Saturday Night Show Premier of Rochester's newest and bestestest improv format, CITY COUNCIL IMPROV. Got a problem? Watch as our improvisors complain to the city council about the happenings in their small town...what happens when the city council takes the matters into their hands! It's gonna be gnarly.

Last Night's Episode - THE FALLOUT?!

Last night Geva Comedy Improv presented week four of "FIASCO: Lake Boat!" out at SUNY Brockport. It was an interesting show because our numbers were down to just: Tim, Josie, Chris, Mike, Brian and Paul along with our narrator Adam. Numbers, schumbers - we blew the door off SUNY BROCKPORT and they had to call the fire department to hose us down because things got HOTTT!
On a suggestion from Mr Litz, we used the convention where we started the story with everyone in danger - in this case, the entire crew was locked in Supply Room #3 and Bradley had assumed Temporary Captainship of what was becoming a disaster! Then, using flashbacks we revealed how we got there. It was a terrific device that really helped facilitate the entire adventure. Surprises included:
* Steve (Brian D.) revealing that he was a robot.
* Brad (Chris H.) revealing that he had Gulf War Syndrome and was an ex-marine (who took Tae-bo).
* Rosemarie (Josie S.) revealing that she was pregnant through immaculate conception.
* Captain Barney (Paul N.) revealing that he had taken his daughter Rosemarie away from her mother at a young age.
* Gerald (Tim G.) revealing he was not from the South at all, but rather actually named Tom Sawyer Johnson and hailed from Cleveland, Ohio.
* Frank (Mike C.) revealing that he was dead when Steve snapped his neck.
........and much, much more!

Afterwards, the crew headed over to Acme Pizza for their two-for-one drink special. We promptly left because it was crowded there. Across the street at O'Callahans, we drank two pitchers and teased a very tired Tim Goodwin about his Rochester D&C Insider profile . After watching the Steelers get beat up by the competition (the Toronto Ragnars? I don't know. I don't follow Football), we looked up during the news to see a graphic that read, "CANADA'S GOVERNMENT TOPPLED". That was sort of a shocker but since the TV was on mute, we didn't know the circumstances. The next slide had a picture of local rich-dude Tom Golisano, so we assumed that he had assumed control of our Northern neighbors. From now on, I will comply with his wishes and call all the "Tim Horton" restaurants "Tom Golisano". I, for one, welcome our conquering billionares. ROCK.

So, tune in next week at the Student Commons Building - Room 112 (something like that, you'll see the table set up and the ticket sellers) for the LAST episode of this season of FIASCO: LAKE BOAT~! Tickets are $1 for students, $2 for non-students and the show starts at 930 PM on Monday Night out at SUNY BROCKPORT. If you need more details, let me know! It should be a sold-out extravaganza with tons and tons of twists & turns. Dontchadaremissit!

Last Week's Episode of Fiasco!

Alright FIASCO! Fans its time for last week’s synopsis. I promise that I won’t be distracted tonight as my Steelers take on the undefeated Colts in what could be the best Monday Night Football game of the season. Even a clash of these AFC titans couldn’t compare to what we don’t have planned for tonight. That’s right, our improvised soap opera is going to kick Monday Night Football’s butt. I’ll even pull a Namath and make the bold prediction that tonight’s episode will be the best one yet. Come watch the only improvised Soap Opera in Western NY.

So here is what happened last week on that wacky Lake Boat:

Dr. Al Qaeda returned to the boat only to find out that Eamon and Steve were missing! The rumors ranged from drug rehab to excellent adventure. Perhaps it was only a bogus journey. Either way the ship was without a first mate and Rosemary without her Irish mate. Ticket sales had been slow on the Lake Boat and the crew put their heads together to come up with a plan. Then they went off and came up with separate plans entirely. Brad wanted to host an Afro-Brazillian Dance recital complete with lights, costumes and pyrotechnics. Surely Rochestarians could not pass that up. Dr. Qaeda wanted to steal cars from the man who can’t stack ‘em and fake the ticket sales. Gerald wanted to run drugs, a popular pastime on the boat, but ended up helping Dr. Qaeda and Brad. He knew that Canandaigua was the place for both used Hondas and pyrotechnics.

The good Doctor happened to get caught talking on his cell phone, without any accent. It turns out that his real name is John Smith and that he works for the CIA. He is on an undercover mission and he needs the Lake Boat to complete the mission.

In the marathon that is the lifetime commitment of marriage, Rosemary is more of a sprinter. Once Eamon was gone, Chester A. Arthur proposed to her and she said yes. Rosemary and Chester asked the Captain to marry them, but he resisted. He revealed that Rosemary was his daughter and that she shouldn’t marry a dirty old man like Chester.

The Captain then ran off with Frank to the Radio room but they locked themselves in. They broke out a bottle of booze and Nancy quickly came to the rescue…sort of. She triumphantly entered and let the door close behind her, thus locking her inside as well. No matter, Frank still had the gun that he had earlier brandished to little effect. Maybe shooting at a solid steel lock in a room with solid steel walls is a good idea in Brooklyn, but it wasn’t on the Lake Boat. In his attempt to escape, the bullet ricocheted right into Nancy O’Brain’s leg. Don’t worry, it hit the fleshy part. Luckily Rosemary came to the rescue and healed the wound…with her mind!

Over in Canandaigua, Gerald met up with his friend Slappy Jim (played by Charley), the proprietor of a fireworks store and a former Afro-Brazilian dancer. He gave Gerald advice and fireworks, a classic combination. Gerald just made it back to the boat in time to miss the big dance finale. Oh, maybe he will dance during this week’s episode. Was Steve at drug rehab? Will Eamon return? What will Gerald do with the leftover fireworks? Will Rosemary ever stick with just one guy? The only way to find out is to watch this week’s episode of FIASCO!

The new City ad!!! Mark yer calendarrrrs!

Let the Holiday Madness begin!

Hey, everybody, we'd like to wish y'all a Happy Holiday Season, which officially starts today with the infamous Black Friday. Our condolences to anyone working retail today.

Our next round of shows are next week!!!! Friday the 2nd of December is Theatre Sports; Saturday the 3rd is a very special Holiday Edition of City Council Improv...get you tickets now at www.gevacomedyimprov.org.

Enjoy!

Some old pictures from the vault!

PAUL enjoys an after-rehearsal outing at Charlie's Frog Pond.

You know, a picture is worth a thousand words.

This picture, from last year, shows CHRIS and BRIAN rehearsing at the U of R. This was when we were still under the direct tutelage of Dad's Garage.

Last Weeks Episode of Fiasco

The following is a recap of last week's episode.

Last weeks episode was wild and crazy. It had a plague in Canada, drugs in the torpedo tubes and an old man running around the boat all horny from taking enough Viagra to kill a mule. Nancy awoke from her coma with horrible scarring due to a Nazi acid bath. The Captain returned from his trip to Africa, but Steve did not recognize him. Frank Worthington, Reginald’s twin brother, arrived on the boat and quickly made plans to smuggle drugs with Steve. They hid the “hallucinogenic marijuana” in Steve’s socks and then put those in the torpedo hatch.

Meanwhile, Dr. Al Qaeda revealed a stash of Viagra to Chester A. Arthur and the news of a coming plague to Brad. Chester couldn’t resist taking a few of the pills. Eamon encouraged Rosemary to train her supernatural powers with Chester. Rosemary and Chester met in her cabin and he tried to seducer her with the sweet sounds of Barry Manilow. It didn’t work, but it did awaken Brad, who assumed the worst.

Nancy wandered the boat spreading a “love plague” to Eamon through a casual handshake. He immediately broke out in a rash and ran away screaming. Nancy continued to roam the boat, looking for love in all the wrong places. She needed a self-esteem boost and eventually came across Steve who was overcome with wild hallucinations after donning a pair of his drug soaked socks.

Captain Barney Rotten secretly changed the course of the ship from Toronto to Newfoundland just before Dr. Qaeda and Gerald came up with a cure for the plague. After testing the cure, which just happened to be Viagra, on Nancy and Eamon they loaded a strong cocktail into the torpedo tube and shot it straight at Canada’s water supply. This cured the plague and saved millions of lives. It also gave everyone in Canada a great weekend since the tubes were full of drugs.

~Adam

Volunteer your time and see the shows for free!!!

Hey -- wanna volunteer at our shows? Easy. Just email gci@gevatheatre.org with your name and email address and who knows? People might come to a GCI show and buy a tee-shirt...from YOU!!!

Fiasco: Lake Boat Update

The following are the characters that have so far appeared on Lake Boat:

Brad Lacey – (Chris) Former Steward Person and host of the ship.
Steve – (Brian) The First Mate and a general bad ass.
Gerald Thomas Lichtenstein – (Tim) The engineer of the Lake Boat and rough Texan.
Dr. Allen “Al” Qaeda – (Swithin) Doctor from Pakistan who uses the boat to smuggle prescription drugs.
Captain Barney Rotten – (Paul) Captain of the Lake Boat and a grizzled sea dog.
Reginald Warren Worthington II – (Mike) Rich playboy and secret agent.
Nancy O’Brian – (Beki) Divorcee with two kids and a drinking problem.
Rosemary Duncan – (Joanna) The boat’s interpreter with a keen sense of the supernatural.
Eamon Larkin – (Liam) Irish stowaway in search of his father.
Chester A. Arthur – (Charley) A mysterious man with mysterious powers.
Joshua - (Liam) A Nazi.

On last week’s episode of Fiasco:

The crew was on a much needed shore leave when Captain Barney Rotten became mysteriously ill while hanging out with Brad and Rosemary at an ambiguously gay nightclub called Tinsel. Steve wasted no time and quickly assumed command of the boat. He became delirious with his new power. It was not long before the cause of the Captain’s illness was found – poison! The passengers and crew naturally assumed that Steve was to blame.

Meanwhile Rosemary met a strange man/boy named Joshua (Liam) who invited her to a house party. He could dance like the wind, but he had a dark secret which would put the lives of the passengers and crew in peril. Gerald and Nancy searched Monroe County for a mysterious “Matrix” that would aid Gerald in a devious scheme. Chester and Eamon took a tour of Rochester, stopping for a famous garbage plate. Eamon had never had a hot dog before, but Chester assured him that it was “like the corned beef that you had at your mother’s funeral, but in a tube.”

The Captain recovered from his poisoning and Brad smuggled him aboard the ship. He was determined to scuttle any plans of Steve’s, but only after he presided over Eamon and Rosemary’s Irish engagement (we are told that these are extended affairs that can take years before the actual wedding). However, Reginald was the one to get revenge by kicking Steve’s ass with his Vatican kung-foo. Beaten and with a broken spirit, Steve retreated to the lower decks. Rosemary stumbled upon Joshua who had sneaked aboard the ship. He took her hostage and revealed that he had been poisoning the tuna in order to kill the crew and eventually the entire developing world. Naturally, he was a Nazi and was using the Lake Boat because it had been an old Nazi war experiment before the Allies had taken her and subsequently sold her to Monroe County.

An epic fight ensued with each person taking on Joshua one on one (Eamon vs. Joshua was the highlight of the brawl). This never worked for the Ninja Turtles and it didn’t work for the citizens of the Lake Boat. Joshua’s Nazi powers were too strong. Brad recognized that there was only one thing that could defeat Joshua and that was the power of freedom (with a little help from Steve). You see, Steve has two tattoos of the World Trade Center towers- one on each bicep. When his arms are at his side, the towers lay on the ground, a grim reminder of that day in September. But when Steve flexes his muscles in a classic pose the towers stand erect - a symbol of enduring freedom. Well, when Steve flashed his muscles the Towers rose and Joshua fell so that Steve had the chance to land one fatal blow. Joshua was finished and the boat was saved, but all was not well.

The Captain had been flung overboard in the fight, and a school of Tuna carried him to Africa. Reginald was apparently killed, but his body was never found. Gerald still had something up his sleve and it wasn't a crescent wrench.

Will the Captain return? Is Worthington dead? What will that crazy Texan do next? Will the Irish engagement between Rosemary and Eamon last? The only way to find out is to watch the next episode of FIASCO!

KEVIN LEAS snaps behind-the-scenes LAKE BOAT pics!

Geva started their regular, five-week run of FIASCO -- THE LAKE BOAT SEASON out at SUNY Brockport this week! Our bestest friend KEVIN LEAS was there to document the action, and we thought we'd pass along the kick-ass photos!

The second episode is this Monday the 14th -- head out to the Conference Room 119 in the Student Union at SUNY Brockport and see the show! It's only $2, or $1 with your student I.D.! Show starts at 9:30 pm!

PAUL and MOOKIE backstage, moments before the show!
Crewe of GCI warms up!
BRIAN sports one of his new tattoos.
JOANNA applies BRIAN'S manly tats.
CHARLEY gets a lesson in street flute from LIAM.
ADAM reminds the gang where they're at in the storyline from the pilot episode of LAKE BOAT.
JOANNA longs for the day when we'll be able to all ride more comfortably in a large GCI van.

GCI celebrates its championing with roller skating!

HORIZONS skate park was our destination tonight as we took some well-deserved time off from the grueling tasks of improvising.

LIAM rolls like a mutha, y'all.
JOANNA glides into action.
PAUL -- farthest to the left -- gets into the groove with a conga line o'skaters! Just like the old days of disco and skate parties...when PAUL wasn't even alive!!!
MIKE and BRIAN tackle the air hockey table -- BRIAN triumphed!
TIM -- just before nearly falling! Again!
LIAM and BRIAN take a breather.

Thanks again to everyone that voted us best blog in Rochester, and runner-up in best theatrical performance! How did we celebrate? Well, re-read the title of this post!

You are viewing the best blog in Greater Rochester!!!

Oh my God! You must have just read in City Newspaper that this is the best blog in Greater Rochester and, being an internet-surfing citizen of Monroe county, you immediately raced to your computer and navigated your way here!

Welcome! This is the blog of Geva Comedy Improv, Rochester's finest in late-night comedy entertainment. On this blog you'll find:

-Photos from and announcements about our shows.

-Illustrations of futuristic athletic competitions.

-Photos of what the cast members of Geva Comedy Improv do when they're not living the life of fabulous super comedy all-stars at one of our delightfully rambunctious performances.

-Personal gripes and insight into the lives of people you normally would only see on stage.

-Messages from one Improvisor to another. Example: Tim, now that we have THE BEST BLOG IN GREATER ROCHESTER it might be time to make with some more pictures, punk. I would do it, but my computer sucks and you know this.

Who knows what else may get posted?! Visit us often! Remember, we are the most reliable source in western New York for monekys, pirates, and giant robots.

Thanks to City Magazine for this unmatchable honor, and thanks to all our fans who filled out a ballot on our behalf. This is a great week for democracy.
Another Democrat will soon be in city hall (DISCLAIMER: GCI has no political agenda though we did get a great picture with the mayor-elect a few months ago!) and not only have we been voted BEST BLOG but we were also the RUNNER-UP for BEST LOCAL THEATER PRODUCTION just behind A Chorus Line.

Thanks to all who voted!

-Nellis

FIASCO -- the LAKE BOAT season -- Starts Monday!

This Monday the 7th GEVA COMEDY IMPROV begins the regular season of FIASCO, their improvised soap opera!!! You'll see all the intrigue, mystery, deceit, passion, and fun of your fancy-pants t.v. "stories," but this time it's made up on the spot!

And the best part is, it's playing for five straight weeks of Mondays. Head out to the Ballroom in the Seymour Student Union at SUNY Brockport and join in the fun! Tickets are $2, $1 with student I.D. The show starts at 9:30 pm!!!

Thanks to Brockport's Student Government and the theatre club Harlequins for helping us put it together...see you Monday!

GCI shows you how to get rid of zombies at brian and mike's halloween party.

enjoying yourself? with a pint in your hand and a cricket bat at your side, the party's your oyster. bring on the board games and slightyly-tipsy revelrousness!
but what's this? ohhh, dear! one of the party's citizenry has decided that you, dear friend, are looking quite tastier than that bowl of alcohol-drenched gummi bears.
those of you less prepared -- say, those dressed as gnomes or yoda -- might fall prey to this creature of the night, this duke of hazard, this evil puppy. but with some quick thinking, and abstainment from the path of panic-strickenry, you can start to beat the shit out of the approaching zombie. remember: go for the head! it's where they're the weakest.
ahhh, raise the roof, indeed! you've destroyed the zombie, saved the party, and have won the praise of those less destructive than you! huzzah, good friend! huzzah! on to those gummi bears!

shots from kevin leas' camera!

We'd like to send a mad shout-out to Kevin Leas for these great photos of our Improvathon...he took over 1,000!!! More to come!

Friday Night Shot!

I know the Insider was at the show on Friday night. Here's a secret, advance sample!



ROCK!

Tales from the Improvathon!