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Archive for November, 2010

Very First Famous Last Words

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

designed by my loverly hubby, Lucas Luke Gattuso

I moved to Los Angeles at the end of 2005. Since then, I've taken improv classes all over Los Angeles, but it wasn't until I found a home at Impro Theatre and only after studying there for a couple of years that I got back on stage. And now you can't stop me…

My first foray onto the LA stage and back to long-form and was Jane Austen.  And next I'm performing long-form and genre-free.  We — Famous Last Words — will be performing a diptych at The Lab at The Hollywood Improv.

Perhaps it's cuz I'm an improv whore.  Or, more correctly, an improv john, for I pay for it often.  Maybe I'm an improv junkie. Always needing a fix. I don't know what you'd call me, but I know I can't get enough.

But I digress…. (more…)

From Too Many Larrys to…
So Many Janes

Friday, November 26th, 2010

My class picture, circa 1886 or 2010

Long form scared the poop out of me. But the loverly folk at Impro Theatre are breaking me of that.

In San Francisco I mostly performed BarProv with Too Many Larrys. With occasional RadioProv on Liberation Radio. And very occasional long-form with The Escape Artists.

If memory serves, The Escape Artists started strong at the very first  San Francisco Theater Festival. We asked for a suggestion of a playwright and received "Tennessee Williams."  Then we asked for a location where this playwright would NOT have placed a play, and we received  "Internet Cafe." I don't remember much from that performance, except a love affair with the inimitable Fred Wickham. That's the last positive experience I remember with long-form, until my show with Tuesday night class performing a 50 minute play in the style of Jane Austen.

I liked performing Jane way more than I thought I would. I was chock full of dread. I never thought I'd be able to pull off the girlishness and the story line. And yet I (really "we" — me and my amazing class) did it much to my astonishment.