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January 26, 2002

Fourth Show

"Eventé"

Yes, you read that right. The suggestion for the event to explore was the show itself. We threw in elements of making fun of ourselves and the show, and treating it the way we would treat any other event - so we had SNL scouts coming to see the show, and reviewers as characters and so on. Phillip plugging Superpunk in the middle of the show was hi-larious.

Two good things: the house was sold out on Saturday. Yay! And Jonathan Pitts came backstage just before the show and invited us to perform at the Chicago Improv Festival on the Showcase stage. Yay! (That show is only going to be a half-an-hour, which I understand has been a problem for shows like Dinner for Six that really need an hour. We had so many problems stretching the show out, that squeezing it back down to half-an-hour should be no problem.)

We don't have a show this week (Feb. 2) so we'll having a pick-up rehearsal sometime this week. Only two shows left after that (well, until the CIF).

Posted by Fuzzy at 8:00 PM

January 19, 2002

Third Show

"Ordination of a Lesbian Priest"

Ho hum, another Saturday night, another great house and great show for Eventé. (Actually I'm really excited that that was the case.) I think one of our greatest signs of success is that Greg's mom (who, he says, "doesn't get improv") keeps coming back and has seen all three shows.

Next week, I'm hoping that I can actually remember to play and have some fun doing improv. Jeez, I'm lame.

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January 18, 2002

Performink Article

The new Performink (Chicago's theater trade paper) has an article on Armando and the show. I snapped the picture of Armando they used when I was out in New York for the 3 on 3 Improv Tourney. I haven't seen the actual paper yet, so I'm wondering if they used that picture in the print edition.

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January 12, 2002

Second Show

"Closing on a House Sale"

What a busy night. Shaun and I did Bare at the Playground at 8 (and I sat in with Chicago Comedy Company at that same show, so I couldn't duck out early to get to WNEP). And then after Eventé I had to rush off to take pictures at Rive Gauche, so I didn't get to go rollerskating with Zach, et al.

The show was great. We had a good-sized house (which makes both the producer and player sides of my brain happy). We got off-track of the form a little, but everyone was having so much fun that I think we did a really entertaining show.

Oh, and we finally got our postcards. Let me rave a little about how great the folks at Rocket Postcards are. They've been super helpful and friendly through this whole shipping crisis. And the quality of the postcards is excellent. And let me shake my fist at UPS a little here, too. My original batch of postcards made it to the downtown Chicago UPS facility, then disappeared and showed up 5 days later in Salt Lake City. How does that happen? Feh.

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January 6, 2002

First Eventé Review

I knew there was going to be a reviewer at the show, but I didn't know who it was, which is the way I like it -- I have an incredibly bad habit of cheating a look at a director or coach (or reviewer) to see their reaction, which of course throws me off, gets me out of character, etc. etc. If I don't know they're there, I don't peek.

So, the review came out today. It's a good review. Yay!

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January 5, 2002

Eventé Opening Night

"Divorce Court Proceeding"

Yay! We did a show! A mid-sized, but enthusiastic house. The reviewer came as expected (note to self: always bring extra press kits to the show, because reviewers never bring the one you sent them). And the show was actually pretty good. Yay! (Come see the show!)

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Second Post-Armando Rehearsal

Here's one of the ways Greg Inda is so mean. He made us do the warm-up we all hate (Follow the follower) even though Armando is gone.

The show goes up tonight, and we're set. Everybody but one (Rob Smith cut up his hand really bad over the holidays and was dealing with arranging for surgery) was at the rehearsal and we ran some good shows. And we got (hopefully) the blue out of our systems with a really raunchy "Wedding."

Now that I'm not worried as a player, I'm worrying as a producer. We're listed in the Reader and the New City (and probably elsewhere, but those are always the first two I check) and I hear we have a reviewer coming tonight. But UPS lost my postcards -- they're somewhere in the UPS building in downtown Chicago, but they can't find them. They were coming late anyway, because of the printing schedule at RocketPostcards over the holidays, so I really wanted to have them for opening night so that the sold-out crowd (fingers crossed) could all take twenty and give them to all their friends with rave reviews.

Oh, and we lost a show. Because of some sort of fund-raising raffle (it wasn't all clear to me) WNEP is having a private party on Saturday, February 2, so we won't have a show that night. I'm a little sad, both as a producer, because it drives our seats-per-night-to-break-even up, and because the 3rd is my birthday and I was looking forward to a full weekend of shows for my birthday.

And hey, I got the cast bios and pictures up and this afternoon I'm making programs for the show.

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