Saturday, December 31, 2005

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?

Thursday, December 29, 2005

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

Saturday, December 24, 2005

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!

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

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!!!!


Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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!

Friday, December 09, 2005

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.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

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!

Saturday, December 03, 2005

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!

Thursday, December 01, 2005

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.