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On behalf of the Scared Scriptless members:

THE BLUE SHOW!

Adults only improv!
Must be 21 or older and comfortable with everything that makes being a grown up so much fun, including but not limited to; swearing, off color humor adult themes, more swearing, adult situations, a lot of #$%&ing swearing and adult content.

Friday July 22nd 8pm

Snow Goose Restaurant, 717 W 3rd Ave

Tickets are $9 at the door or in advance through CenterTix.net
Credit Card sales only accepted through CenterTix.net
Scared Scriptless Improv presents a night of improvised comedy like no other.

As always, the scenes and situations are made up completely on the spot with audience suggestions. Because of the subject matter you must be 21 or older to attend this event.

Check out more event info on our Facebook page
Call Scared Scriptless Improv at 310-1973 for more information and for group rates (10 or more people).

April 23rd SCARED SCRIPTLESS SHOW!!!

Josh, feel free to take this down if you feel like I'm shaming your site with plugs for Scared Scriptless...

Have you felt a yearning for comedy lately? Need something to fill in the pain of not laughing at hilarious improv comedy? We got it! Come rock the house down with Scared Scriptless as they tackle an epic April 23rd!

Saturday April 23rd – 8:00pm
Snow Goose Theater
717 W 3rd Ave
Tickets are $9 at the door or online at
CenterTix.net , by calling 26-FARTS

Box Office at the door opens at 7:00 pm the night of the show.

For more information or groups of 10 or more call Scared Scriptless at 310-1973

Check out the event on facebook for the secret friend password and get $7.00 tickets. You can also use that groupon that’s burning a hole in your pocket.

We’re bringing our A-game, so we want you to as well. We’ll see you there!!!

Scared Scriptless Auditions!!!

When: 1:00 – 3:00 pm, Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Callbacks will take place from 6 – 8:00 pm on Sunday, April 24th, 2011

Where: Snow Goose Theater, 717 W 3rd Ave in downtown Anchorage

Bring: Your A Game

Holy shit, I just realized I can advertise on idkfa!!!

Scared Scriptless April 9th Show - THEATRE SPORTS!!!

THERE WILL BE BLOOD!!!

Scared Scriptless is switching it up by giving the audience what they crave: a knock down, drag out improv grudge match between your favorite Scared Scriptless troupe members.

Come out to Snow Goose to cheer on your favorites so we can crown the ultimate improv team champion!

Saturday April 9th – 8:00pm
Snow Goose Theater
717 W 3rd Ave
Tickets are $9 at the door or online at
CenterTix.net , by calling 26-FARTS

For tickets at the door, the box office opens at 7:00 pm the night of the show.

For more information or groups of 10 or more call Scared Scriptless at 310-1973

Check out the event on facebook for the secret friend password and get $7.00 tickets. You can also use that groupon that’s burning a hole in your pocket.

Tickets are going fast, so get there early.

Thanks for suggesting Charlie Sheen, Libby. Thanks a million.

Also, Dave, you missed some blatant racism against Eskimos. It was all me, baby. You're welcome.

COME TO THE CABARET!

OK, OK, so everyone knows the show and has probably seen the Liza Minelli film. But it's still a fabulous local production with more hot dancers in lingerie than you'll find in any other show. And my mom liked my singing! And there's a perpetual risk of injury!

An Alaska Dispatch reporter p (www.alaskadispatch.com)rofiled (www.alaskadispatch.com) the production. My favorite part is when she talks about the Mein Herr/Mein Chairdance choreography: "But despite the fact that the choreography is all new, the chairs aren't the ones they'll be using on opening night, and it's starting to get late, within the course of an hour and a half, Ward has the company dancing its way through three-quarters of the song -- and only two people get kicked in the head."

Runs Friday and Saturday nights through April 9th. Get your tickets here (alaskapac.centertix.net).

Check out the good press:

http://www.jaimekayland.com/?p=1755 (www.jaimekayland.com)

Chicago City Limits is coming to Anchorage! I think most of you know this by now, and some of you even have tickets! Anyway, my work and CCL is offering a workshop for the public. We emailed Jason at S.S. the info this afternoon, but as the class is limited to 30 people, i wanted to get the word out asap. If you're interested, call me up and give me money! Let me know if there are any questions.

Details:

SATURDAY, MARCH 12
1:00 - 2:30pm
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS IMPROV CLASS

Discovery Theatre Stage, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts
(must enter through security/stage door at 5th and G St.)

ADMISSION: $10
PRE-REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED
Class is limited to 30 people
Payment is required for pre-registration. To pre-register, call the
Anchorage Concert Association at 272-1471. Visa and Mastercard are
accepted. Minimum age for class is 15.

Jan 22 Show

Fun show, despite the crowd. Not sure how a packed theater could be so wooden, but you folks played it well. Might be the case that many were newcomers and were a little unsure of what they were supposed to be doing at certain points. Regardless, I'd say everyone had winning moments at some point. I liked the moment of reverence for the all-seeing new-choice bell.

January 8th Show

I did not perform in this show, so I got to sit back with a beer and take some extensive notes, which was a good change! However, I'd first like to say that I thought this was a pretty excellent show, although Kristen (not of the Rutledge variety - Dugan) brought up a great point for the meeting we had yesterday - without clear vision, she hasn't given a shit about the quality of the improv, she just got on stage to have fun. I think that aptly describes the show: good on fun, short on improv. Now that I've indicated I'm sitting in a tower, I'll go game by game:

Intro: I thought the intro was a little weird, as it felt like it came out of nowhere. I think a better music ramp-up would have helped (more energy), or music going on at a low volume in the background instead of crickets, then played more loudly as the players enter. Fine delivery, John, but it felt like the audience wasn't ready and it got kinda awkward. Way to push through.

Beastiality Rap: Game went over fine, although you definitely have to kill it for a team when someone in the audience says, "That was a stretch." But with teams, the audience got into - great! Specific references during the game were also awesome.

Freeze-Tag: This game could have used a bit better pacing (faster), but it had some great moments from Kristen and Eric.

Growing/Shrinking Machine: This game ramped up perfectly, but the ramp down lagged and killed the energy. Not bad overall. Ryan turning Warrens negativity to a positive ("Yeah, cuz I'm you're bitch.") was a great save.

First Line/Last Line: Very good ask-fors and explanation by host to keep energy. However, this was the weakest game of the night. Talking heads with no objective but zingers is not good improv (although Eric can pound out zingers). Also good job by host bringing up energy after a game didn't go over so well.

Chain Murder: This game went over well, although I would have preferred it to be timed. However, the miming was varied and overall quite good, which is the only way this game can be good! Nice job. Audience grab was awkward but handled well.

Diamond: Love this game. Warren did excellent using the stage. Mallory, I felt like you morphed into one of the scenes rather than hanging on to your idea. Overall, I liked it a lot, crescendo was great.

Group Therapy: Planning ask-fors is a great way to make the games run smooth and keep energy, good job John. This game was fine, and went a little long... but okay. Still, could have used an energy boost when it ended. ASIDE: Warren and Kristen were fucking around during this game, made me angry.

Foreign Movie Dub: Oh, Poonjobi. Lol. This game went pretty great, fine improv, but should have been ended sooner (after first dance).

Entrances & Exits: The ask-fors on this one were fine, although a little formulaic. The scene was pretty good, albeit a bit gaggy. Had a decent objective. Warren was a nice opposite to the other players. Wish it wouldn't have ended on a zinger, but might have been the only way.

Switch to the Right: Another scene of characters in a line with talking heads... albeit the characters were fairly distinct. Fine objective, but not wrapped up... another one-liner.

Irish Drinking Song: Bartender ask-for was brilliant, I want that every time. The song sucked. It was funny enough, but totally fell apart. A definite regression to gag-prov.

Freudian Slips: Good objective offer from Kristen, and good pick-up from Mal. One of the funnier lines was a non-Freudian, Mal's "I have ssen some shit." Hilarious. Great audience interaction after game, John.

ID Symphony: I usually hate this game, but I thought it went well, mainly because Mal got into it and others mixed it up.

Weekend at Bernies: Warren used the stage well again. Decent objective for short scene. Jason did not have enough energy for the last go through, this game needs to end with a bang!

Anyone else got thotz?

All hail Emperor Hanus! The new Artistic Director of Scared Scriptless!

Bow before his holiness, peons! You too, he-that-shall-not-be-named-but-is-always-negative-in-rehearsals.

Note: I'll post my thoughts on the last show soon enough, as I took extensive notes.

December 18th Show

I was pretty happy with how the show went. It was exciting to host again as this is one of my favorite spots to be in for an improv show. The crowd was particularly awesome and thanks to all of our friends who came out and supported us. I think the players fed off the crowd's energy and stepped up as well. Something I am very proud of is that I was harping on hosting for the last six months to both troupe members / friends and I felt I demonstrated the point in this show.

My comments have to come with a disclaimer, because I was distracted by games list, lights, navigating pathways and thinking of things to say for the next intro. All things considered, though, I still think there were a few items worth mentioning. I won't seriously rate the show because I did not perform or watch closely. If you asked me to blindly guess, I would say 7/10.

On the logistical side there needs to be dedicated box office and lights that are internal to the troupe. Eric's sister is awesome for helping us out, but if we want to continue starting on time, the box office has to miss 10-15 minutes of the show and I don't think it is fair to her and we won't be able to count on her every time. My vision would be for someone in the troupe to sit out a show on rotation and do box office and then come in for lights (assuming we stay in the same type of venues). Also on logistics, there needs to be something better for the introduction between lights down and host up. Something needs to drive people to want someone on stage, which is usually music, but our technical capabilities are limiting. Finally, the packed house made staging off stage difficult. Pop-Up story book shouldn't have been told facing away from the audience.

As for the improv itself, I think better energy and better audience participation improved the quality. However, I still think we suffer in our scene games (limited for this show, moving bodies and freudian slips being an example) from lack of clear direction. Favorites of the night were 3 Headed Santa, Family Dinner and Stand Ins. I also might be breaking down on my singing comments because both songs went well this show too. Worst was by far Improv Mash Up. I had too much stuff to do to set it up and when I was going to take time to explain the 3 games (1-3-5, switch to the right and super heroes) while the troupe was working it, I looked back to find three people ready to go. Also, it was a miracle I remembered to call switch to the right half way through the game. But, it is a dangerous game and sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. I just think the three games meshed well with Super Heroes being the foundation game.

Mad props to Erik having a great show for a crowd full of people that knew him. I know I struggle in this regard and he whooped some ass. A stronger performer by the day.

Comments, thoughts?

Thoughts on the Dec 4th show:

Despite the tiny audience, and that tiny audience being pretty wooden, still a pretty good show. As was mentioned, singing went really well. For the other games:

• Strongest: "Try that on for size," "Pop-up Book" and "Incredible Growing / Shrinking Machine."
• Weakest: "Dating Game," "Three Headed Santa."
• Big Erik was on his game tonight. That, or I could just hear him better this night than any others. Little Erik, you did fine, too.
• Warren has trouble keeping the interstitial comments from dropping energy entirely, as well as has a weird way of doing ask-for's. However, he wasn't in any games. I liken this to how when my coaches discovered I was pretty terrible at football, they put me in as a defensive center, so that even when I did screw up, the damage would hopefully be minimal.

Thanks for playing.

All right, I was told the other night Josh put this section up for me and it got me thinking I haven't been giving it the attention I should. Sorry Josh, let's remedy.

I thought the last show went pretty well, but I still think we are stuck in 'average' shows. I don't think any of our shows get out of the 5/10 category and I feel helpless because we all contribute in one way or another. I'm looking for ways to break through the 5/10 category.

Perhaps two keys to my perception:

1) Better hosting - I maintain good hosting can get us through wierd audiences

2) Games list - not every game we play is good for the audience and we don't necessarily play every game on the list well as a group (thank you singing)

Thoughts? ??

From last night's show, there is one thing that stands out as borderline unacceptable:

"...or else I'm going to kill you and mount your head on my fucking wall," or something to that effect.

I can't really get around that line, since it stands out as such a bad bright light from the show.

Thoughts on Oct 23rd show:

Pretty good Halloween show, and a solid show outside of the theme. No particular complaints on any player performances.

There are still complaints.

• Please. Stop playing "Dead Celebrity Diner." There are a number of games that turn out much better than that ("Diamond," "Panel of Experts," "Zoom in / Zoom out"). The folks that read this might not have control over it, but the length of the game and the lack of audience involvement (particularly when they forget to request it) makes it sort of a lull in the performance.
• I think I've mentioned this before: random game order. This only works when the games played are randomly well put together. Which, in my short time attending SS, hasn't happened yet. Multiple low-energy games in a row, or worse, games that require you to get wet in the middle of a show, just don't work.

Cheers.

thoughts on the October 9 show:

John, Mallory and Erik were not in the show!

Their warmup routine didn't really get all of the audience's participation. Some of the groups led by the players were confused, or uninspired by the prompts/activities. Other groups led by players liked it, and it was a gag through the whole show. If there was a way to recreate the sketch/activity and have all the audience willing to participate, it could be a running gag through the whole show and be awesome.

the audience volunteer for this show's variation of the "gibberish/bong bong bong" sketch was kind of a moron. either the directions werent explained to him correctly, or he just didn't listen to the directions. It's more likely that he didn't listen. aside from that, the players did a great job in that sketch. definitely a good sketch to keep using.

while jason is a good host, i like him better as a player. jason still gets sidelined by almost every comment/suggestion tossed out by the audience. warren isn't as bad of a negative nancy anymore, but he definitely doesn't keep energy flowing as well as other players. he did good as a host.

"the great pumpkin" sketch, this show's variation of the three-headed monster, didn't work so well. the answers weren't necessarily from the perspective of a "great pumpkin," it was just the renaming of the sketch. This carries back to previous "holiday-themed" sketches of the three-headed monster.

objection is always an audience favorite.

"diamond," i think is usually a good sketch, but it was a little jarring because the horn or the bell wasn't used to announce changes in the scene. it was disruptive to the players to have jason yell "freeze! now move!" everytime he wanted players to rotate. maybe ringing the bell a certain number of times can represent "move x positions clockwise" and the horn used for "x positions counterclockwise" or something to that effect.

sketches not otherwised mentioned were decent. overall i'd give the show a 7 out of 10 - not bad, but good, but not especially memorable as "hey, do you remember that one show..."

Thoughts on the Sept 25th, 2010 show:

• Altogether solid show. Started strong with freeze tag, and kept good energy throughout. I was thinking about writing some notes on my phone on the games played, and devising systems for rating and note-taking, but I kept having to mentally revise my system when the games kept getting better, and I wanted to watch the games rather than take notes on them.
• Though the game was successful, Panel of Experts showed Warren to be in serious poison mode. Everyone else had distinct, immediately accepted and hilarious characters that could have great answers. Warren's biologist I think was Warren, playing himslf, and not wanting to play the game. The audience laughed at his characterization, but as the final say for most of the questions, arguably should have been something different.
• Wasn't Zoom In, Zoom out supposed to relate to sex somehow? The game worked, but the rules, John. The rules. :)
• John / Mal: I like the framing device you guys use to build up a scene by yourself with more than one character. The "tch", followed by a hand sign of "one" or "two" or "three." Worked really well for the "death by Chuck Norris Stare."
• Love letters went really well. Exemplifies how well the both of you work with the audience.

Thoughts on the Sept 11th, 2010 show:

• I thought hoe-down went extremely well. Everyone had really strong rhymes, and Kristen pulled off the anchor position extremely well.
• The slapfight game should not have a) ended the show, b) been about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and c) shouldn't have been slapping. The first version of that game I saw was with marshmallows, which was Goddamn Hilarious. I would have rather seen a serious dialogue about 9/11 conducted while trying to stuff marshmallows into one's face.
• The "same scene, different locations" game was fun, but I think it would have gone better if the audience had been involved with the problem that had to be solved for each of the characters in addition to the locations.
• The scene for the "first line, last line" game made sense in the context of the two lines taken from the audience, but I felt that it went on a long time. Also... there was a lot of shitting going on.
• I liked the cell phone idea quite a bit. My phone had a hard time getting the number to go through at first, but I think it's because I had tried only entering the seven digit number, and then everything went to hell from there. I was impressed with the fact that despite a smaller crowd, you guys had upwards of 50 texts at one point in the show. I don't know if I've ever seen 50+ slips being read on stage.

Those are the discrete bits that stuck with me. Overall, great show.

Man, with all my recent and upcoming travel, it will have been quite some time by the time I actually perform next. And I'll probably have to do that fucking 'Conducted Stories with Styles' game. Aaagghhhhhhhhh.

Also, that first sentence just made me realize that tenses in English are bullshit.

The title of this section makes me think either of drugs or weddings.

The request for this discussion item here.

If you want some entertainment, this is sort of a fun read (scaredscriptless.yuku.com), though, not necessarily applicable to recent shows I've seen. For a while, during a particularly dark period with Scared Scriptless, I... helped a bit by posting anonymously on the SS Audience Feedback forum. I would go, enjoy the shows, afterwards mentally record and digest complaints from my theater and improv veteran friends, and then regurgitate them in florid prose, sundering varied strangers' hard work in a public setting.

It was a lot of fun, let me tell you. Unfortunately, at some point I was sloppy, my anonymity was compromised, and I stopped posting. I still enjoy going to the show to watch my friends perform.

So, if you happen to see a show and you have something to say about it, let them know here. Or, you know, tell them to their face. They can handle it.