Pics from Artwalk

(left) Josie, Adam and Brian do a helping hands interview about digging ditches.

(right) Some art on the wall where we were performing. Clockwise from lower-right corner: Michael Stipe, A Salmon of Truth, King Leer at Armaggedeon and unknown (Fifth Beatle?).

Reminding you!

Improv for another good cause!

Tonight we'll be performing at the ARTWalk ARTAuction shindig out at the Armory on Main Street...we'll be in the room with all the paintings! This is a big event, and you should come show your support. More deets are available...HERE!

The Easter Bunny Hates You!

This week on FIASCO! Season 2: The Hosptal

Dr. Danny Charlie tells Carrie Mittens RN that he's going to figure out once and for all who is not a real Doctor at Strong Hospital.



The staff figures out that Dr. Judy never went to med school!! Oh NO!!!!



Dr. Chet Moneybags, live on the air with News 10 NBC's Jennifer Johnson, telling all of Rochester that now when they get two lobotomies, the third one is free! What a deal!



Sunny Thompson performs a delicate brain surgery to repair the "freaky friday" situation connecting Dr. Chet Moneybags and Raj Gupta.



Is Wally the new "the Rage?"



Sunny Thompson will do anything to get his paper on Alternative Medicine published by the daughter of Dr. Chet Moneybags.



Daryl Homan Jr. was on some sort of crazy drug the whole time!!

Confused?? So are we, but that's okay. Join us next monday night at 8pm for the answers to these puzzling questions!

Will Dr. Judy go back to Med School? How much trouble will Raj Gupta be in from Dr. Moneybags? Who are these investors that Wally has coming to look at the hospital? Will Sunny Thompson be able to help Dr. Moneybags' daughter overthrow him? Just WHAT is in the water? Will Daryl ever be normal again? Will Dr. Kanibangya ever act professionally? Who will Carrie Mittens RN sleep with next? Dr. Charlie? Dr. Judy? Daryl Homan Jr.?????? We don't know! So join us next week for Rochester's only live improvised soap opera,

FIASCO! Season 2: The Hospital
8pm U of R Drama House
$2 - Cheap!

From the Archives -- when Kevin asked Sarah to marry him at our show!

Sha-ZAM!

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 717.

A chapter in history has closed for the University of Rochester's In Between the Lines improv troupe, and that is the closing of 717 Mount Hope, home to so many memories of this college troupe that brought Geva Comedy Improv many of its early members. Returning for the prestigious Alumni Show were such OG GCI luminaries as NELS YOUNGBORG and JEFF SACHS. A great time! Thanks to TIM RYAN and BORDEN for hannlin' up!

PAUL NELLIS, SAMAY, and 717's co-host TIM RYAN enjoy the post-Alumni Show festivities.

BEKI has a red cup.

ADAM had a red cup.

MOOKIE was seen with a red cup; CHARLEY (with the blue hoodie and red cup) is holding a red cup.

BEKI, JOANNA, and MIRANDA (GCI's House Manager) enjoy their red cups.

PAUL NELLIS gets a post-show cut from the legendary IBTL alumni DAFLOS.

GCI musical accompanist (and improvisor in our last show's Serious Scene) ARTHUR grabs some street meat after the show.

The Alumni show plays to a packed crowd; on stage, from left to right, is JEFF SACHS, BORDEN, REED, BEN, BRAD, and BITS.

DAFLOS, CHARLEY, and MOOKIE play to the house.

Get your tickets to The Show!

FIASCO -- Episode 3 pictures!

NURSE CARRIE MITTENS (Adam) is ready for medical action!

DR. CHET MONEYBAGS (Brian) is sick of all these patients without insurance.

More episodes of FIASCO -- The Hospital Season -- at the University of Rochester's Drama House every Monday Night @ 8:00 pm! Only $2!

Bethany's pictures from Saturday Night!

Thanks to BETHANY BONOWITZ, who's been there for us since the beginning, for these great pictures of our show with IRON COBRA this past Saturday Night!
BECKY during the strawberry shortcake scene.

GRAHAM plays gloomy gus to BECKY'S cute little girl.

MOOKIE laments the fact that his statue of JOANNA discovering America didn't win her heart.

TIM and CHARLEY are fixing more than their hovercraft; they're fixing their friendship. Aww.

Two audience volunteers help MOOKIE and GRAHAM discuss philosophy, sports, and day jobs.

This week on Fiasco! Season 2: The Hospital

This week's episode was so fantastic, I don't know where to begin!!!

It started when Sunny Thompson learned of Steve Kanibangya's plan to lobotimize Daryl Homan Jr. and use parts of his brain to bring Dr. Danny Charlie out of his coma. In the long term care unit, Dr. Judy returned from her voyage of self discovery and told the comatose Dr. Charlie that she had actually never been to medical school. Meanwhile, Dr. Steve Kanibangya had taken Dr. Chet Moneybags out to the beach to teach him to surf. Dr. Steve was a natural surfer, but something came up out of the water and took him away! Steve didn't know what to do, so he smoked a joint.

Back at the hospital, Sunny Thompson was planning on not lobotomizing Daryl, but using an ancient Native American technique to send himself and Daryl on a vision quest into Dr. Danny Charlie's mind and fix the problem there. Nurse Carrie Mittens stole some peyote from Raj Gupta's lab and Sunny Thompson prepared to perform the ritual.

Back at the beach, Dr. Judy showed up, having been tipped off by a screaming girl at the hospital who had seen Dr. Moneybags "swallowed up by a beast from the fathoms of the lake." She rented a boat and took the very calm and chill Dr. Kanibangya out on the lake to search for Dr. Moneybags. They found him floating in the water, seemingly okay, but he insisted he was Raj Gupta, "the Rage!" The boat captain ferried them back to the hospital on the Erie Canal and they sedated Dr. Moneybags. There wasn't anytime to lose, Dr. Charlie needed to be saved!!

Sweat ran off the brows of Dr. Judy as she raced to the Long-term care unit and as soon as she was there, Sunny began the ritual. Sunny Thompson and Daryl Homan Jr. entered the comatose mind of Dr. Danny Charlie and they began their search. Daryl Homan Jr. walked off and reunited with his childhood idol, the Pegasus. Sunny found Dr. Danny Charlie wandering in an endless desert and told him the plan. Once they found Daryl Homan Jr., Daryl gave Dr. Charlie part of his mind and he drifted back to conciousness.

The staff at the hospital rejoiced, Dr. Danny Charlie had been saved from his coma, thanks to Sunny Thompson and Daryl Homan Jr. Meanwhile, Dr. Chet Moneybags woke up from his "little nap" to find Raj Gupta in his waiting room. They began to argue as to just whose fault this little mind swap was and that was the end of this episode of Fiasco! Season 2: The Hospital.

Will the minds of Raj Gupta and Dr. Chet Moneybags go back to where they belong? Will Nurse Carrie Mittens' love for Dr. Judy be fulfilled? Will Danny Charlie remember what Dr. Judy told him while in a coma? What kind of honors await Sunny Thompson for his ground-breaking work? Where did Dr. Steve Kanibangya stumble off to? Will Daryl Homan Jr. ever be the same after giving up part of his mind? What the heck was in the lake? And where was Waldo "Wally" McCormick this whole time????

Find out next Monday night on FIASCO! Season 2: The Hospital.

U of R Drama House
8pm
$2

GCI gets some Iron Cobra insight!

BECKY of IRON COBRA gave a public workshop for the ladies and then worked with GCI on some improv skills. A great time, and we're very fortunate to have met her!


BECKY gets some chai between workshops.

Iron Cobra leaves their mark on Geva!

Iron Cobra graced us last night with a special performance - one half with the GCI boys & girls and then a half by themselves. Let me tell you, folks - all them statistics we've been listing off here about awards and the like are completely true, and this duo has proven that they deserve every bit of it. Here's a little sample of what went down.


GCI and Iron Cobra get warmed up downstairs before showtime.


Graham from Iron Cobra does a short scene with Josie.


I really don't remember what was going on here, but everyone was laughing.


Mookie gets Graham going on his distaste for "goo" and people who don't invent everything they own.


Graham tries to play several silent characters at once as Becky provides the voices for each and every one of them. He looks like he's lost it, but he knows what he's doing.


Becky and Graham tell the audience about the hardships of being born into the Marsalis family and not being able to play a single instrument.


Try as he might, Graham just can't stay angry at the doll and flowers that Becky brought him.

Exclusive video from last night's Theatre Sports!

This weekend's schedule!

Hey, y'all, here's our schedule for the next round of GCI's shows, which are this weekend! Friday and Saturday, 10:30 pm both nights, in The Nextstage at Geva Theatre Center! Get your tickets at www.gevacomedyimprov.org.

friday night
host - swithun
judge - paul
team 1 - mookie, tim, brian
team 2 - adam, beki, joanna

barprov - tim and charley

saturday night
(1st half)
host - beki
judge - adam
team 1 - mookie, joanna, swithun
team 2 - becky j, tim, paul
(2nd half)
iron cobra

GCI doesn't shy away from housework!

PAUL dons the back vac to do a little cleaning of the Drama House before last night's FIASCO! Don't forget we've got shows this weekend!! www.gevacomedyimprov.org or 232-Geva (4382) for all the deets!

This week of FIASCO! Season 2: The Hospital

It all began in Raj Gupta's basement laboratory where he was injecting Dr. Chet Moneybags with sweat glands to help the doctor with his rare condition that prevents him from sweating. Meanwhile in the waiting room, Dr. Judy told Nurse Carrie Mittens that she was leaving for a while to go on a voyage of self discovery. Dr. Judy's absence made Carrie Mittens realize that she didn't have to have "pool parties" with Dr. Chet Moneybags anymore so she went to his office and told him it was over. He told her that she no longer had a job.

Raj Gupta had another motive for his collection of sweat samples. It seemed he had developed a potion which would help him get over his shyness and become super cool. So with one drink he transformed from Raj into "the Rage." The new supercool Gupta decided to show Daryl Homan Jr. what he really thought of the hospital and took him on a tour. Unfortunately for Gupta, their tour collided with a tour Wally McCormick was giving Sunny Thompson of the traps he had set up for Dr. Moneybags. A couple of non-rolling gurneys and an unlevel floor later and Gupta was lying bloody on the floor.

Meanwhile Carrie Mittens no-longer RN had taken a cab to Show World on Monroe Ave to take back her old job as a sex-toy salesperson. After some deliberation between the Show World staff, "Thorn" the owner decided to give her back her old position.

Back at the hospital, Dr. Chet Moneybags was looking for Raj Gupta, he desperately needed more of his sweat serum. Instead he found "the Rage" bloody and lying on the floor. He tried to put "the Rage" on a dysfunctional gurney and after a few moments of pushing he collapsed from exhaustion (though he plays Cricket, he hadn't performed a minute of honest labor in the past 15 years). The two lay in the hallway of Strong Hospital, desperately needing someone to help them.

Sunny Thompson and Waldo "Wally" McCormick happened upon them and knew something had to be done, fast. Wally wanted to turn the entire hospital into a giant sweat room, but Sunny knew there wouldn't be enough time, the only person that could help them was Carrie Mittens RN. They caught a cab down to Show World and convinced Carrie Mittens to come back to the hospital. The three of them ran back and saved Raj Gupta and Dr. Chet Moneybags just in time. Unfortunately, somehow in the process, parts of their personalities were transferred to each other.

At the end, over the comatose body of Dr. Danny Charlie, Dr. Steve Kanibangya and Daryl Homan Jr. came up with a plan to lobotomize Daryl and use parts of his brain to save the good doctor.

Can they save Dr. Danny Charlie? Does Dr. Charlie really want parts of Daryl's brain? Will Dr. Judy return from her journey of self-discovery? How will the fused personalities of Raj Gupta and Dr. Chet Moneybags effect the functioning of Strong Hospital? Will Dr. Steve Kanibangya teach Dr. Moneybags to surf? Will Nurse Mittens have to return to throwing "pool parties" for Dr. Chet Moneybags? And what about Wally? Hmmm? What about him?

Find out all this and more on the next episode of FIASCO! Season 2: The Hospital.

Monday April 10th
8pm U of R Drama House
$2 - Cheap!

All those awesome word boxes from the Batman TV series...

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