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Krebs hypothesizes that his more than 1,600 classmates elected him as their marshal because of his high visibility on campus as the leader of the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), an improvisational comedy troupe. He has also been involved in several dramatic productions and served for a year on the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club board of directors. And he admits that he just plain knows a lot of people...
Krebs has been a member of IGP since his first year at Harvard, and says he takes some of the credit for the group's improvement over the past four years. The troupe has grown, he says, and has more paying gigs than ever before. IGP performed a total of 60 times this academic year...
Even though what the audience sees on stage is improvisation, Krebs says, the troupe takes practice very seriously. They practice four hours a week with extra rehearsals before special events. IGP shows mostly consist of improvisation games the performers play with words and situations contributed by the audience...
...productions Krebs says he is most proud of is IGP's first musical theme show, an innovation the troupe produced with financial assistance from Harvard's Office of the Arts. The grant was to perform an improvised musical, but they "had no idea...
...casting in order to hand-pick his actors. John Keefe '01, used to performing in musicals, acted alongside Kellerman in Children of Eden earlier this year; Jonathan Steinberger '00 won recognition last spring for the shocking verisimilitude of his portrayal of a junkie in Buffalo; David Modigliani '01, an IGP veteran, has natural comedic gifts; and Catherine Gowl '02 was universally admired for the depth and expressivity of her role as Cecilia in Simpatico (not to mention the touching hilarity she brought to the character of Bananas in this semester's Mainstage production of The House of Blue Leaves...