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* Friday 5pm: The cast performed with teens from [[The Hideout Theatre]]'s summer camp.
* Friday 5pm: The cast performed with teens from [[The Hideout Theatre]]'s summer camp.
* Friday 6pm: Free-form improv from the core cast.
* Friday 6pm: Free-form improv from the core cast.
** This turned out to be a montage, featuring among other things, Day Care for Baby Banes.
* Friday 7pm: ''[[Start Trekkin']]'': improvised ''[[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]''
* Friday 7pm: ''[[Start Trekkin']]'': improvised ''[[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]''
** This was a story about a pleasure-planet overtaken by a Klingon bent on revenge against the show's captain.
* Friday 8pm: ''[[The Fancy-Pants Mashup]]''
* Friday 8pm: ''[[The Fancy-Pants Mashup]]''
** This one featured a slight change in format: each two-hander included a marathon player and someone from the visiting ''Fancy-Pants'' cast.
** This one featured a slight change in format: each two-hander included a marathon player and someone from the visiting ''Fancy-Pants'' cast.
* Friday 10pm: [[Parallelogramophonograph]] presents "New Works": the audience suggests a play title, and the players perform a narrative with that title.
** It featured the following guests: [[Andreas Fabis]], [[Andrew Buck]], [[Cat Drago]], [[Chris Villafano]], [[Chuy Zarate]], [[Dana Yanoshak]], [[Matthew Falkenberg]], [[Patrick Creamer]], and [[Scott Hearne]].
* Friday 10pm: [[Parallelogramophonograph]] presented "The Tab", a montage in which all the characters were blindfolded.
* Friday 11pm: [[Franz & Dave]] presented "Pine Falls", a surreal television pilot in the style of ''[[wikipedia:Twin Peaks|Twin Peaks]]''.
* Friday 11pm: [[Franz & Dave]] presented "Pine Falls", a surreal television pilot in the style of ''[[wikipedia:Twin Peaks|Twin Peaks]]''.
** Each marathoner got a character type from the audience at the top of the show; Franz Kafka and David Lynch narrated the story as usual.
** Each marathoner got a character type from the audience at the top of the show; Franz Kafka and David Lynch narrated the story as usual.
** Like the ''Twin Peaks'' pilot, this performance featured an FBI agent investigating the murder of a college coed in a northwest logging town.
* Saturday 12am: ''[[The New Game Project]]'': the audience suggested the names of games, and the players invented and played games with those names.
* Saturday 12am: ''[[The New Game Project]]'': the audience suggested the names of games, and the players invented and played games with those names.
* Saturday 1am: [[In Our Prime]]: grounded, dramatic improv, in this case based around an extended family attending a wedding.
* Saturday 1am: [[In Our Prime]]: grounded, dramatic improv, in this case based around an extended family attending a wedding.
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* Saturday 6am: Performance with veterans of [[The Hideout Improv Marathon]]
* Saturday 6am: Performance with veterans of [[The Hideout Improv Marathon]]
** This featured guests [[Andy Crouch]], [[Emma Holder]], [[Halyn Lee Erickson]], [[Jason Vines]], [[John Ratliff]], [[Jon Bolden]], [[Kaci Beeler]], [[Karen Jane DeWitt]], [[Roy Janik]], and [[Valerie Ward]].
** This featured guests [[Andy Crouch]], [[Emma Holder]], [[Halyn Lee Erickson]], [[Jason Vines]], [[John Ratliff]], [[Jon Bolden]], [[Kaci Beeler]], [[Karen Jane DeWitt]], [[Roy Janik]], and [[Valerie Ward]].
** In this format, veterans would tell anecdotes of their experiences in the Marathon, and the cast would perform a few scenes based on that anecdote.
* Saturday 7am: Student Show
* Saturday 7am: Student Show
** This was a set of short-form games.
* Saturday 8am: [[Waterpark]], a musical-improv troupe from [[The New Movement]], presented a non-narrative musical-improv show.
* Saturday 8am: [[Waterpark]], a musical-improv troupe from [[The New Movement]], presented a non-narrative musical-improv show.
* Saturday 9am: ''[[Dubbed Indemnity]]'': improvising the dialog, sound effects, and soundtrack for silenced TV and film clips.
* Saturday 9am: ''[[Dubbed Indemnity]]'': improvising the dialog, sound effects, and soundtrack for silenced TV and film clips.
* Saturday 10am: [[Local Genius Society]] presented "Video Game", where cards scattered with 'helpful' instructions threw kinks and twists into this improvised story.
* Saturday 10am: [[Local Genius Society]] presented "Video Game", where cards scattered with 'helpful' instructions threw kinks and twists into an improvised story.
** This was a narrative based around "Disney Place", a knockoff version of [[wikipedia:Disney World|Disney World]].
* Saturday 11am: ''[[Charles Dickens Unleashed]]'': improv in the style of one of [[wikipedia:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]' early novels.
* Saturday 11am: ''[[Charles Dickens Unleashed]]'': improv in the style of one of [[wikipedia:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]' early novels.
** This was the story of William Barachnal, a young aristocrat who was banished from his family home and, after a checkered youth, became a respected blacksmith in Derbyshire.
* Saturday 12pm: [[Arkay]] presents [http://www.improvinterviews.com/2006/11/jts-brown-description-by-craig.html JTS Brown].
* Saturday 12pm: [[Arkay]] presents [http://www.improvinterviews.com/2006/11/jts-brown-description-by-craig.html JTS Brown].
* Saturday 1pm: [[What's the Story, Steve?]]: kid-friendly improv, featuring a dog.
* Saturday 1pm: [[What's the Story, Steve?]]: kid-friendly improv, featuring a dog.
** In this story, Steve was a duke in a fantasy setting who was not invited to the kingdom's most eagerly-awaited birthday party.
* Saturday 2pm: Free-form improv from the core cast. (Nicknamed "The Eye of the Storm", this is the exact midpoint of the marathon.)
* Saturday 2pm: Free-form improv from the core cast. (Nicknamed "The Eye of the Storm", this is the exact midpoint of the marathon.)
* Saturday 3pm: [[Girls Girls Girls]]: improvised narrative musical.
* Saturday 3pm: [[Girls Girls Girls]]: improvised narrative musical.
** This musical was called "DMV", and featured a young lady getting her first driver's license at the local Department of Motor Vehicles.
* Saturday 4pm: ''[[Pick Your Own Path]]'': improv in the style of the old ''[[wikipedia:Choose Your Own Adventure|Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' books.
* Saturday 4pm: ''[[Pick Your Own Path]]'': improv in the style of the old ''[[wikipedia:Choose Your Own Adventure|Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' books.
** The core cast was joined by [[Content Love Knowles]], [[Thedward Blevins]], [[Mitchell Deane]], and [[Brad Hawkins]].
** The core cast was joined by [[Content Love Knowles]], [[Thedward Blevins]], [[Mitchell Deane]], and [[Brad Hawkins]].
** The first story, "Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs", featured [[Jessica Arjet]] as a young girl who discovered a population of dragons on a field trip.
** The second story featured [[Aaron Saenz]] as a privileged child at a resort-like sleepaway camp who entered a different world while looking for a set of hot springs.
* Saturday 5pm: [[The Amazon & The Milksop]] presented a series of improvised English Instructional Videos.
* Saturday 5pm: [[The Amazon & The Milksop]] presented a series of improvised English Instructional Videos.
* Saturday 6pm: [[The Library]]: improvisors in several different genres performed a single narrative.
* Saturday 6pm: [[The Library]]: improvisors in several different genres performed a single narrative.
* Saturday 7pm: [[The Knuckleball Now]]: rapid-fire improv.
* Saturday 7pm: [[The Knuckleball Now]]: rapid-fire improv.
* Saturday 8pm: ''[[Theatresports]]'': two teams of improvisors competed in a series of improv challenges.
* Saturday 8pm: ''[[Theatresports]]'': two teams of improvisors competed in a series of improv challenges.
* Saturday 9pm: [[Confidence Men]]: improvised David Mamet
* Saturday 9pm: [[Confidence Men]]: improvised David Mamet.
** They're doing "The Variations", a series of two-hander scenes based around an audience-suggested theme.
** They're doing "The Variations", a series of two-hander scenes based around an audience-suggested word (in this case, "pencil").
* Saturday 10pm: ''[[Maestro]]'': an improv competition with ''[[wikipedia:Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Survivor]]''-style eliminations.
* Saturday 10pm: ''[[Maestro]]'': an improv competition with ''[[wikipedia:Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Survivor]]''-style eliminations.
** This was co-directed by [[Peter Rogers]] and [[Jessica Arjet]].
** This was co-directed by [[Peter Rogers]] and [[Jessica Arjet]].
** The core cast was joined by [[Scott Hearne]], [[Ruby Willmann]], [[Troy Miller]], [[Cat Drago]], [[Chuy Zarate]], and [[Kaci Beeler]].
** The core cast was joined by [[Scott Hearne]], [[Ruby Willmann]], [[Troy Miller]], [[Cat Drago]], [[Chuy Zarate]], and [[Kaci Beeler]].
* Sunday 12am: ''[[The Black Vault]]'': improvised [[wikipedia:H. P. Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft]]
* Sunday 12am: ''[[The Black Vault]]'': improvised [[wikipedia:H. P. Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft]].
** The first story featured [[Justin Davis]] as a mountain explorer who brought back an evil elixir to his upper-class family.
** The second story featured [[Peter Rogers]] as a doctor who performed a series of sleep-deprivation experiments with disastrous results.
* Sunday 1am: [[Puppet Improv Project]]: improv with puppets!
* Sunday 1am: [[Puppet Improv Project]]: improv with puppets!
** The show format was "couples therapy", in which Sara Farr helped a number of puppet couples deal with their relationship problems.
* Sunday 2am: ''[[Tech Nightmare]]'': wherein the players have to do everything the people in the tech booth tell them to.
* Sunday 2am: ''[[Tech Nightmare]]'': wherein the players have to do everything the people in the tech booth tell them to.
* Sunday 3am: [[Big Beautiful Warlock]] presented ''[[Big Beautiful Warriors]]'', a game show with very non-traditional games.
* Sunday 3am: [[Big Beautiful Warlock]] presented ''[[Big Beautiful Warriors]]'', a game show with very non-traditional games.
* Sunday 4am: ''[[Pulp Friction]]'': improv in the style of [[wikipedia:Quentin Tarantino|Quentin Tarantino]]
* Sunday 4am: ''[[Pulp Friction]]'': improv in the style of [[wikipedia:Quentin Tarantino|Quentin Tarantino]]
* Sunday 5am: a secret show, produced by [[Jason Vines]].
* Sunday 5am: a secret show, produced by [[Jason Vines]].
** Roy made Jason promise not to be *too* cruel to the core cast with his secret format.
** This turned out to be "Human Clay", where Jason, in character as a Bob-Ross-like sculpture, molded players into various shapes and blew "magic dust" on them that brought them to life for scenes.
** This turned out to be "Human Clay", where Jason, in character as a Bob-Ross-like sculpture, molded players into various shapes and blew "magic dust" on them that brought them to life for scenes.
** Roy had made Jason promise not to be *too* cruel to the core cast with his secret format.
* Sunday 6am: "The Queen Is Not Amused", wherein Jonathan Monkhouse appeared via Skype, portraying the queen of England.
* Sunday 6am: "The Queen Is Not Amused", wherein Jonathan Monkhouse appeared via Skype, portraying the queen of England.
* Sunday 7am: Student Show
* Sunday 7am: Student Show
* Sunday 8am: Care Bear Stare -- The Care Bears came to bring badly animated joy to your lives.
* Sunday 8am: Care Bear Stare -- The Care Bears came to bring badly animated joy to your lives.
** In this show, five players -- [[Roy Janik]], [[Cat Drago]], [[Josh Gill]], [[John Ratliff]], and [[Michael Joplin]] -- played [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears Care Bears] based around not-exactly-G-rated emotions.  They then solved problems for the cast.
** In this show, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears Care Bears] based around not-exactly-G-rated emotions solved problems for the core-cast members in a longform narrative.
** The Care Bears:
*** [[Roy Janik]] -- Desperately Cheerful Bear
*** [[Josh Gill]] -- Stoner Bear
*** [[Cat Drago]] -- My Parents Didn't Love Me Enough Bear
*** [[John Ratliff]] -- The Bear of Lost Hope
*** [[Michael Joplin]] -- Gay Bear ![Bi Bear]
* Sunday 9am: [[The Institution Theater]] presented "the movie format", an improv montage with screenplay-style scene painting.
* Sunday 9am: [[The Institution Theater]] presented "the movie format", an improv montage with screenplay-style scene painting.
** This story followed a girl in the inner city and her estranged father through a narrative that became increasingly [[wikipedia:David Lynch|Lynch]]ian over time.
* Sunday 10am: ''[[Fakespeare]]'': improv in the style of William Shakespeare.
* Sunday 10am: ''[[Fakespeare]]'': improv in the style of William Shakespeare.
** This version of the show started with a few Shakespearean improv games, and then segue into a narrative.
** This version of the show started with a few Shakespearean improv games, and then segue into a narrative.
** The narrative was based on a Persian attack on Jericho.
* Sunday 11am: [[Bad Boys]]: a non-narrative montage of scenes.
* Sunday 11am: [[Bad Boys]]: a non-narrative montage of scenes.
* Sunday 12pm: Free-form improv from the core cast (nicknamed "The Final Countdown").
* Sunday 12pm: Free-form improv from the core cast (nicknamed "The Final Countdown").

Revision as of 02:07, 24 June 2013

Publicity image for the 44-Hour Improv Marathon.
Publicity image for the 44-Hour Improv Marathon.

The 44-Hour Improv Marathon was the fifth annual Hideout Improv Marathon.

Summary

It will be performed in 2013, starting Friday, June 21 and ending Sunday, June 23.

Core Players

Staff

Schedule

  • Friday 5pm: The cast performed with teens from The Hideout Theatre's summer camp.
  • Friday 6pm: Free-form improv from the core cast.
    • This turned out to be a montage, featuring among other things, Day Care for Baby Banes.
  • Friday 7pm: Start Trekkin': improvised Star Trek
    • This was a story about a pleasure-planet overtaken by a Klingon bent on revenge against the show's captain.
  • Friday 8pm: The Fancy-Pants Mashup
  • Friday 10pm: Parallelogramophonograph presented "The Tab", a montage in which all the characters were blindfolded.
  • Friday 11pm: Franz & Dave presented "Pine Falls", a surreal television pilot in the style of Twin Peaks.
    • Each marathoner got a character type from the audience at the top of the show; Franz Kafka and David Lynch narrated the story as usual.
    • Like the Twin Peaks pilot, this performance featured an FBI agent investigating the murder of a college coed in a northwest logging town.
  • Saturday 12am: The New Game Project: the audience suggested the names of games, and the players invented and played games with those names.
  • Saturday 1am: In Our Prime: grounded, dramatic improv, in this case based around an extended family attending a wedding.
  • Saturday 2am: Past Lives: following a soul through thematically-linked vignettes across history.
  • Saturday 3am: Cheap Date
  • Saturday 4am: "The Bat" with ColdTowne: an improv show in the dark.
  • Saturday 5am: Epic Telescope (AKA "Half-Life in reverse"): a story presented first in one minute, then three minutes, then five, then fifteen, then thirty.
  • Saturday 6am: Performance with veterans of The Hideout Improv Marathon
  • Saturday 7am: Student Show
    • This was a set of short-form games.
  • Saturday 8am: Waterpark, a musical-improv troupe from The New Movement, presented a non-narrative musical-improv show.
  • Saturday 9am: Dubbed Indemnity: improvising the dialog, sound effects, and soundtrack for silenced TV and film clips.
  • Saturday 10am: Local Genius Society presented "Video Game", where cards scattered with 'helpful' instructions threw kinks and twists into an improvised story.
    • This was a narrative based around "Disney Place", a knockoff version of Disney World.
  • Saturday 11am: Charles Dickens Unleashed: improv in the style of one of Charles Dickens' early novels.
    • This was the story of William Barachnal, a young aristocrat who was banished from his family home and, after a checkered youth, became a respected blacksmith in Derbyshire.
  • Saturday 12pm: Arkay presents JTS Brown.
  • Saturday 1pm: What's the Story, Steve?: kid-friendly improv, featuring a dog.
    • In this story, Steve was a duke in a fantasy setting who was not invited to the kingdom's most eagerly-awaited birthday party.
  • Saturday 2pm: Free-form improv from the core cast. (Nicknamed "The Eye of the Storm", this is the exact midpoint of the marathon.)
  • Saturday 3pm: Girls Girls Girls: improvised narrative musical.
    • This musical was called "DMV", and featured a young lady getting her first driver's license at the local Department of Motor Vehicles.
  • Saturday 4pm: Pick Your Own Path: improv in the style of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books.
  • Saturday 5pm: The Amazon & The Milksop presented a series of improvised English Instructional Videos.
  • Saturday 6pm: The Library: improvisors in several different genres performed a single narrative.
  • Saturday 7pm: The Knuckleball Now: rapid-fire improv.
  • Saturday 8pm: Theatresports: two teams of improvisors competed in a series of improv challenges.
  • Saturday 9pm: Confidence Men: improvised David Mamet.
    • They're doing "The Variations", a series of two-hander scenes based around an audience-suggested word (in this case, "pencil").
  • Saturday 10pm: Maestro: an improv competition with Survivor-style eliminations.
  • Sunday 12am: The Black Vault: improvised H. P. Lovecraft.
    • The first story featured Justin Davis as a mountain explorer who brought back an evil elixir to his upper-class family.
    • The second story featured Peter Rogers as a doctor who performed a series of sleep-deprivation experiments with disastrous results.
  • Sunday 1am: Puppet Improv Project: improv with puppets!
    • The show format was "couples therapy", in which Sara Farr helped a number of puppet couples deal with their relationship problems.
  • Sunday 2am: Tech Nightmare: wherein the players have to do everything the people in the tech booth tell them to.
  • Sunday 3am: Big Beautiful Warlock presented Big Beautiful Warriors, a game show with very non-traditional games.
  • Sunday 4am: Pulp Friction: improv in the style of Quentin Tarantino
  • Sunday 5am: a secret show, produced by Jason Vines.
    • This turned out to be "Human Clay", where Jason, in character as a Bob-Ross-like sculpture, molded players into various shapes and blew "magic dust" on them that brought them to life for scenes.
    • Roy had made Jason promise not to be *too* cruel to the core cast with his secret format.
  • Sunday 6am: "The Queen Is Not Amused", wherein Jonathan Monkhouse appeared via Skype, portraying the queen of England.
  • Sunday 7am: Student Show
  • Sunday 8am: Care Bear Stare -- The Care Bears came to bring badly animated joy to your lives.
    • In this show, Care Bears based around not-exactly-G-rated emotions solved problems for the core-cast members in a longform narrative.
    • The Care Bears:
  • Sunday 9am: The Institution Theater presented "the movie format", an improv montage with screenplay-style scene painting.
    • This story followed a girl in the inner city and her estranged father through a narrative that became increasingly Lynchian over time.
  • Sunday 10am: Fakespeare: improv in the style of William Shakespeare.
    • This version of the show started with a few Shakespearean improv games, and then segue into a narrative.
    • The narrative was based on a Persian attack on Jericho.
  • Sunday 11am: Bad Boys: a non-narrative montage of scenes.
  • Sunday 12pm: Free-form improv from the core cast (nicknamed "The Final Countdown").
    • This turned out to be a narrative about a group of Led Zeppelin fans, followed by the usual Q&A with the cast.

Jonathan Monkhouse

British improvisor Jonathan Monkhouse was originally scheduled to play in the 44-Hour Marathon. Due to visa troubles, neither Monkhouse nor his improv partner Chris Mead were able to come to the United States.

Michael Joplin stepped in as Jonathan's replacement in the core cast.

The Saturday 2am slot was originally scheduled for Project2, the science-fiction troupe that both Monkhouse and Chris Mead are a part of.

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