On December 1o, 2008 I celebrated my 2 year anniversary with Improv Open Mic Night. Time flies when you are making things up. Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate along with me; except the guy who wrote in Lines From a Hat "Happy 2 Year Anniversary Allyson...I want a divorce. Love Open Mic Night". So I started off the show with a couple of hits from the past shows; including a new excerpt from my first boyfriends love letters accompanied by a slide show of his drawings and also his flame pants (yep I had awful taste). After that, I let Ian's Bar Mitzvah video shine one last time to get in the mood for laughing. It was a packed house and I was thrilled to see that Loser Josh (who was there on the first open mic night) came back again. Two other troupes entered to perform; Guns-N-Roses and Zach, Ellie and a bunch of other D-bags. We played some old games including Allyson Says and tried a couple of new games which actually worked out well; Human Props and Time Machine. I did my best to get everyone on stage...we had about 45 people interested in performing. After 2 years I realized it can be complicated when you are hosting and producing a show at the same time. The night was fun; the place was packed and I'm glad I can continue to offer this outlet for the Improv community. So no divorce for you Open Mic Night...see you in January!
Next show: Friday, January 23 2009 in The Comedy Lounge. Sign-up from 7-7:30 pm and the show will begin at 8:05 pm.
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- This forum was officially announced by Allyson Jaffe (Manager/Owner of The DC Improv) on 11/28/06 to the Improv Community and launched at The DC Improv Comedy Club in our comedy lounge on 12/20/2006. The goal for this forum is to offer all students who never get the chance to practice and perform improv to have the chance to do so, for FREE. The DC Improv Comedy Open Mic is open to everyone; we encourage anyone with or without training in Improv to participate. The format of the show incorporates group performances along with single improvisers (whom are chosen randomly that evening and placed in a short form improv game). The single improvisers may or may not know the game or the other people playing it which is part of the fun of Open Mic Night. Again, the goal of this is to have fun, meet new people and offer another playground to continue to perform your Improv Skills.
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