ThePIT

Dec 31st (Wed)

Mainstage

• Beauty Love Truth

  Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 8pm
  $10
  
  Guest musicians inspire improvised scenes. Beauty Love Truth is produced by Shannon Manning and Louie Pearlman and features some of the best improvisers in the world! BOB DOROUGH (Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Schoolhouse Rock!) will play his music to inspire improvised scenes. Nothing is planned; it’s all improvised. You will never see this show again! Featuring an INTRODUCTION by by SARA SCHAEFER ("You Had to Be There," MTV, Fallon) who will speak on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth. This month’s IMPROVISERS include: Matt Higgins (Centralia, Burn Manhattan) Terry Jinn (UCB, The Project) Bradford Jordan (Story Pirates, PIT) Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”) Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny) Mark Sam Rosenthal ("Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire") Alexis Saarela ( Someday the Cake, Taco Supreme) Lauren Sharpe (NeoFuturists NY and Chicago "Too Much Light Makes Baby Go Blind," "The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 1." The New Victory Theater, Big Apple Circus Clown Care.) And special guest improviser GARRY GOODROW (The Committee, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Connection, Dirty Dancing, National Lampoon's Lemmings, Honey I Blew Up The Kids -writer) The Committee on Dick Cavett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDahC7sdjw Garry Goodrow and John Belushi sketch: http://youtu.be/r-pl-TkXwAE The Connection trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BsfBomthhc

Musicality and Scenework

June 1st-2nd, (Two-Day Workshop)

Using music to inspire scene work both internally and externally. Developing a musicality to your scenes as well as making up music / songs inside of your format. We will look at the concept of tempo and develop and understanding of how music can lead to unspoken agreement for greater joy and ease of play. We will be beatboxing, freestyling, listening, sharing, making noises you never thought you'd make and moving a lot.

Anthony Veneziale
Sat-Sun, 1pm-4pm

History Philosophy Metaphor

May 25th (One-Day Workshop)

Details, Specifics and Information are always needed for a good improv scene. This workshop teaches you HOW to create those scenic needs while creating enjoyable humor and sound theater as a side effect of generating the best details possible.

Matt Donnelly
Saturday, 12pm-3pm

Getting Out of Your Own Way

June 9th (One-Day Workshop)

here are a hundred things that you end up doing on stage instead of what you want to be doing. Your brain is clouded with all sorts of things that you think you are supposed to do instead of what you are inspired to do. Learn to throw all conventions to the wind and just have fun in your scene work. Learn how to pull from all your learning and find the school of thought that works for you, because it comes out of you.

Asaf Ronen
Sunday, 2pm-5pm

Patterns in Everything

June 21st (One-Day Workshop)

Being in your head has a terrible reputation in improv circles. This workshop is all about being in your head at the top of the scene (a good thing) and then using the information to truly play out of your head for the remainder. One exercise, one technique. Adding pattern recognition to your bag of improv tricks will help you find the comedy faster no matter the form.

Chris Trew
Friday, 2pm-5pm