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...basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra. Who knows, some time soon they may play Carnegie Hall. And in a year or two or three, the musical theater may open its heart to the singing Silvestris...
...network also announced several new comedies. "Drew Carey's Green Screen" is an improv comedy show in which the scenarios acted out by the comedians are illustrated by animators. It's for everybody who loved "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" but found it too taxing on the imagination. Jeff Foxworthy, meanwhile, returns to the screen in "Blue Collar TV," a standup comedy/parody show on which he will continue to prove that redneck jokes are not offensive as long as you pay an actual Southerner to make them for you. On "Shacking Up," Fran Drescher plays a mother who shocks...
Emcee Will Luera, a member of Improv Boston, says he thought that antics of the auction participants helped entice the crowd to spend freely, noting the pillow fighting, the cowgirl dance of Emily F. Stevens ’05 and Kimberly A. Gould ’05, and the Zoolander-esque walk-off between Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Iain D. M. Bridges...
...players of Top Girls and other shows under the auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), the Spring 2004 season is well underway at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Since late February, the Ex stage has been graced by improv troupe the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP) and their Comedy Unthunk show, as well as brief runs of Betrayal, directed by Benjamin J. Toff ’05, who is also a Crimson executive, and Private Eyes, directed by Alli C. Smith...
Despite his persistent attention to disorder and chance—his stop at the Roxy last week featured more improv rhyming than album tracks—Eyedea has grown more concerned with controlling his chaos on record. In order to achieve the “epic” sound he and Abilities wanted on E and A (as opposed to the late-night pensiveness of past records), they emphasized crescendos and traded, so to speak, verbal length for sonic depth...