Geburtstaggesicht

You can't keep a good team down.

We are hard at work on our next project: Sketch Cagematch on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 10:00 p.m.

This will be a ten minute gig with 3(!) sketches crammed into that time.  We'll be competing against other sketch revues for the prize: a four-show run in October. So, we need all of you reading this to come to Stage 773 on August 4, love our gig, and vote for us to win the competition.  Yes, all of you reading this -- we'd love to see our Russian fans.  And we'd love to see whoever is responsible for our three page views from Israel during this past week.  Come one, come all.

We've got a sketch from Laura, a sketch from Shane, and a sketch from our Duke of Whacky, Mark.  All sketches are entirely new material in that they haven't been staged before.  We also have a new name.  (It's disguised in this blog entry. Happy hunting!)

We've brought back some of our favorite actors: Sam, Michelle, and Brigid.  And -- this will be the triumphant return to the stage for me and Dan.

It's interesting going back to doing this on our own.  More work.  Less swanky rehearsal space.  More discussions about what looks right in a sketch, what doesn't, and whether we should go with tested material or entirely new material.  That said, I think we've learned to be more open as a group about material that works and that which doesn't.  We've emerged from this last show as a better, more professional group.

And we're gonna keep making funny.