Day two! After a rough night, Woody, Brian and I had some time to kill before the shows started so we went down to Mexicotown. We shopped at a wonderful Mexican grocery, and had way too much lunch at a place called Mexican Village. Then retired to the house for an afternoon of Herb Alpert, beer, and some terrible Mexican cookies.
In the evening more of the Pittsburgh crew showed up: Tessa Karel and Nilesh Shah from The Writers' Room, and Hotel Nowhere's Brad McNary and Tom Achkio.
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| I messed up Tom's face bad |
The shows started at 8 and Brian and I, Iguanatron, were lucky enough to kick off the festival. The whole first show was duo shows: us, then Purple Monkey Dishwasher and finally Craig Cackowski and Rich Talarico. Great sets all around.
Next up was the 10PM shows which lead off with Detroit's own Hypeman. After them I got back up with The Writers' Room, and Tessa had a killer show. The evening ended with Holiday Road, a one-off show that had a really frenetic core game: a road trip source that branched out to a bunch of show-me-scenes: high energy and fun.
What as cool was that the evening had a mix of types and styles of shows. Even the three duos in a row all had extremely different personalities. Given that lot of my improv watching nowadays is Harold-after-Harold-after-Harold it's awesome to see so much variety at once.
Tomorrow: workshops and TJ & Dave. Can't wait.
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| The Writers' Room |
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