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Spelling Bee started life as a play (originally called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E) by an off-off-Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...
First off, the Immediate Graduation Players, one of Harvard’s improv comedy groups, does not usually host shows at 9:45am. In fact, while discussing this particular calendar item, members of The Crimson Staff were moved to tears of pity. We appreciate their sacrifice, and for their sake we hope that some of the sketches will include hangover impressions...
...running out of money, drifting back to Chicago and landing at the improvisational comedy troupe Second City, where his gifts for performance and his nascent moral code merged into the beginnings of the person he is today. "He had a very special talent," recalls Josephine Forsberg, Murray's first improv teacher. "He could project the good part of himself, the part that is optimistic and charming, onto an audience. His darker side he'd show in private, but never onstage. But what I really loved about Billy was that he supported everybody so well...
...explain why. The ornithologist can identify at 200 yards an exotic bird he's never seen in flight before. The psychologist who has catalogued the 10,000 expressions of which the human face is capable. Gladwell hangs with superstar car salesmen and emergency-room cardiologists, badass battlefield commanders and improv-comedy troupes. He even talks to speed daters. Says a disappointed woman, memorably, about a roomful of unsuccessful suitors: "They lost me at hello...
...Unscripted's case, Improvise what you know. The half-hour dramedy comes from producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, who gave HBO K Street, an ambitious improv fiasco about Washington lobbyists that threw together actors and real political players. Here the stars are Krista Allen, Bryan Greenberg and Jennifer Hall, who play three actors--Krista, Bryan and Jennifer--who take advice from a pretentious acting coach (Frank Langella) and try to find fulfilling work and/or pay the bills...