It’s Sunday morning, and I’m catching up on WWE Smackdown and catching my breath after a whirlwind weekend of improv. On Friday night Only Rollercoasters performed in Washington DC thanks to an invite from the Happy Buddha. The show was at DCAC, a lovely black box theater in one of DC’s hipper areas, Adams Morgan. This is the second time I’ve performed at DCAC and I’ve seen a few other improv shows there.
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Only Rollercoasters opened the show and our input was Calligraphy. Obviously this led to a number of samurai battles throughout. Obviously. After our set, was the incomparable Aboulia, one of my favorite troupes. They killed it, I could watch them improvise all day.
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Topher and Dave did some great multicasting that had the whole crowd in stitches. I’ve seen plenty of duo multicasting, but I’ve never seen anyone else play the number and variety of characters in a set the way Topher and Dave did. It was an inspiration and makes me want to step up my improv game. The show was a benefit for Toys for Tots. In the last set, Jeff brought up four marines to get input. The night was a blast!
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We spent Saturday night at Zissimos. Megan and I performed our banjolele duo for the first time as part of A Very Project Holiday. We sang four Xmas songs, and we printed out lyric sheets so everyone could sing along. It has been years since I played music on stage. And though I was rusty, we got through the songs without MAJOR incident, and the crowd sang along for maximum merriment. Uncle Awesome closed out the show with an incredibly high energy set. I did that thing where you run out the front door and come back in the back door.
The 10PM Gorilla & Chicken show was chock full of local comics. We had Josh doing the guest voice of Gorilla. And Chicken hosted the show. People really seem to get a kick out of getting introduced by a chicken. Except for Mike Moran who beheaded my dear friend Chicken.
