All Good Things Must Come To An End

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR FULL FRONTAL COMEDY'S VERY LAST SHOW!

The Annual Best of Full Frontal Comedy is coming and it is going to be Full Frontal Comedy's last hurrah! After eleven years, Full Frontal Comedy is closing shop. Don't miss their last show!

The Best of Full Frontal Comedy 2009 show will feature some of FFC's favorite games, sketches, and plays from the past year.

DATES
Friday & Saturday, January 8 & 9, 2010

TIME
7:30 p.m.

LOCATION
Quality Hill Playhouse
303 W. 10th St.
KCMO 64105

ADMISSION
$15.00

For tickets, call the Quality Hill Playhouse box office at 816-421-1700. The seats are reserved. All ticket sales must go through the Quality Hill Playhouse box office. All sales are final.

CAST
Bill Case, Stasha Case, Paul DeMerchant, Doug Dresslaer, Joyce Halford, Kate Haugan, Dan Hillaker, Gayle Hutchens, Carolyn Lay, Dave Martin, Tina Morrison, Joel Morrison, Kyle Mowry, Jerry Nevins, Christina Schafer Martin, Ryan Seymour, Shelly Stewart, Reed Uthe and featuring music guy Kevin Hershberger.

DISCLAIMER
The Best of Full Frontal Comedy 2009 show will contain mature language/situations and is not intended for children or uptight adults.
Get your tickets early before they are gone!

Improv 2010

Here are some cool new Kansas City Improv happenings in 2010:

KC Crossroads Comedy:

Improv and Sketch every Saturday at The Fishtank Performance Studio

It all starts January 2, 2009.

Visit kccrossroadscomedy.com for more information.

Improv Thunderdome Season 5 & 6

3 teams compete every month for a chance to move on and win the coveted bedazzled belt!

It all starts January 9, 2009

Visit The Trip Fives blog for more information.

***That's only the beginning, 2010 will also bring the 10th Kansas City Improv Festival, as well as the 2nd Roving Imp Festival. Feel free to click through the group links to see what your favorite KC Improv group or venue has scheduled...there have been a few additions:

Beejay
KC Crossroads Comedy

Kansas City Improv Tickets Are Expensive

Kansas City Improv doesn't normally promote shows...but in these tough economic times...a Free show can't be beat. Did we say Free? Yes...Free, a magic word that makes other words better. For example, the word beer by itself is good, but add Free and you've got a riot!

Do you complain about improv ticket prices? Well then this show is for you! Free Improv...brought to you by Holy Cow.

This show features FREE ADMISSION!

Time: 8:00p.m. (doors at 7:30)
When: December 2, 2009
Where: Mabee Theater, Rockhurst University
$$ - FREE!

FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

Chicago is coming to Kansas City

Last year's post-Thanksgiving performance by The Union sold out fast—so don't miss your chance to ditch your family and see them this year!

The Union, featuring real life married couple Corey Rittmaster and Monique Madrid, is fresh off their latest revue “A Very Civil War” at Donny’s Skybox Theater at Second City. The show is directed by award-winning Second City performer Amanda Blake Davis and lets the audience in on how the couple has to defend their race and ethnicity, takes them inside a marriage counseling session, and explores the ridiculous world of a late-night easy-listening DJ and a pick-up artist in the 17th century, and much more.

Corey will also join local favorites Loaded Dice in a completely improvised set. With multiple Improv Thunderdome trophies between them, Loaded Dice features the "bad boys of KC improv." From the Pitch: "The cast, adept at suggesting whole lives with just a few quick, spontaneous lines, gave us not just a grand comic scene but also a full family history, with characters so sharply drawn that they inspired the rarest kind of laughter: participatory."

Not to be outdone, Monique will improvise with Nikki DuPont and Trish Berrong of Spite (also Thunderdome trophy-holders). As the hair and makeup advisor in Spite's summer makeover, Monique totally gets their style—and is ready to jump right into the girls' brand of brazen (OK, ballsy) scene and character work.

Tickets are just $10 for all three sets. Call 816-678-8886 to reserve your seat.

Friday, November 27, 2009
8:00pm - 10:30pm
Westport Coffeehouse Theater

Spite at Impfest 09

For more click HERE

Video

Dennis and Nikki Dupont featured in this video.

ImpFest 09 Video

Making It Up As We Go: BONNER SPRINGS, KS from Jill Bernard on Vimeo.

ImpFest 09

It's finally here.

Roving Imp Theater is hosting its first ever ImpFest and it all starts tonight. Check out rovingimp.com for all the details.

Check out what Roving Imp Theater owner John Robison thinks about it all here.

Those People

Great article about improv featuring Those People....Check it out here

JCCC Project Improv

Introducing "Project Improv" at JCCC:

Project Improv is a troupe whose purpose is to entertain, enlighten, and enhance improv skills among JCCC students. By joining Project Improv, you’ll have an opportunity to rehearse and play improv games each Thursday, between 6 and 8 pm in COM 319A, plus participate in additional workshops to be scheduled in correspondence with the schedules of our guest instructors. We plan to be ready to perform full student showcases by the end of the semester, if not sooner. If you know anyone else who is interested in improv with a JCCC connection (student/staff/faculty), please forward this on to them.

If you would like to join Project Improv or just have some questions email Tom: tkessle1@jccc.edu

Best Improv Group 2009

Congratulations to The Trip Fives, Kansas City 2009 A-List winner for Best Improv Group.

City3.org's Revival

There once was a time before Facebook, and before Blogs. Where Kansas City Improvisers communicated through a forum called City3.org.

Well, that website now has more to offer:

There is a Calendar page for every improv show around this great metro.

There is a Blog page that takes every Kansas City Improv related blog and puts them in one nice and easy place for you to read them.

and of course...There are the Forums.

The revival is scheduled to start the week of October 11th...but why not just go on over and check it out now.

Video

Exit 16 had their first show of the 2009-10 season. They put into action something they learned from Susan Messing. Don't believe us...here is video proof:




If you want more facts on the matter click HERE to hear from their coach/director Trish Berrong.

Kansas City Improv Needs To Remember This

Every time I remember we're all one thing I feel better. I can't be jealous, your successes are my successes and my successes are your successes. I can't be angry because your pain is my pain. We're all just one thing, comprised of atoms and shared hopes and dreams.

It's hard to remember!

There's a cat on my foot and a breeze on my face, who could complain?

Compliments of Jill Bernard

So...What's Next?

The 9th Kansas City Improv Festival came and went. Now, many KC improvisers and audience members are coming down from their high. So where can we all find our next fix?

Roving Imp Theater Presents

ImpFest 2009:

Three Nights, Five Shows, 11 Ensembles

Thursday, Oct. 22
8pm, $10
Anomaly Orange, Tantrum, TrivProv, Spite

Friday, Oct. 23
7pm, $9 (all ages show, 12 & under in free with advance reservation)
Anomaly Orange, Biblioclast, Spite

Friday, Oct. 23
9pm, $9
Improv-Abilities, Coma Chameleon, Tantrum

Saturday, Oct. 24
7pm, $9 (all ages show, 12 & under in free with advance reservation)
Omega Directive, Coma Chameleon, Improv-Abilities

Saturday, Oct. 24
9pm, $12
One, Dictionary Soup, Brownies Don't Lie

Friday Two-Pack: Both shows for $13 (available now through Oct. 1)
Saturday Two-Pack: Both shows for $16 (available now through Oct. 1)
Festival Five-Pack: All five great shows for just $35 (available now through Oct. 1)
Coming soon: Show descriptions!!

**Go to Rovingimp.com for more details on shows and workshops!

Did you miss it?

The whirlwind that was the 9th Kansas City Improv Festival came and went in a hurry. If you missed it, you truly missed some wonderful shows put on by famous people and some local people who aren't famous....yet.

Pictures and Video recaps will be posted soon.

Don't miss the 10th Kansas City Improv Festival...it will be here before you know it.

How about another video...

CounterClockwiseComedy roasts movies and puts on improv shows every month at Screenland. Here is a little taste of how that goes:



If you want to download the audio track off the CounterClockwise Comedy account at RiffTrax.com, it’s $1.99. Then you just play it alongside your copy of the movie, a la Pink Floyd and The Wizard of OZ (but with less psychedelics and more laughter). There are detailed instructions in the track itself of where to sync it up with the movie.

Videos

Some of the Improv groups here in KC have done videos in the past, here are a few:

Full Frontal Comedy did some office spoofs. Click Here.

Stitch Tactics



Roving Imp





More videos to come.

If you have any links to vids, pictures, or any other info related to KC Improv, please email kansascityimprov@gmail.com

Vote Now

Vote for your favorite improv group in Kansas City by clicking HERE.

Oddly enough 6 out of the 9 choices are actual improv groups. The other 3...well, just take a look for yourself.

Let's make an actual improv group win, Vote Now!!!

Get Your Tickets Now

The TJ and Dave Documentary: Trust Us, This Is All Made Up has a showtime now at the Kansas International Film Festival.

Glenwood Arts Movie Theater
Thursday September 24 7:35pm
Get your single tickets HERE.
Click "Buy Tickets Online" underneath Glenwood Arts

**WARNING**
This show will most likely sell out due to the fact that improvisers are freaks about anything related to improv...sorry.