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'''The 44-Hour Improv Marathon''' | '''The 44-Hour Improv Marathon''' was the fifth annual [[Hideout Improv Marathon]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
It | It was performed in 2013, starting Friday, June 21 and ending Sunday, June 23. | ||
== Core Players == | == Core Players == | ||
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== Staff == | == Staff == | ||
* [[Roy Janik]] Artistic Director | * [[Roy Janik]] - Artistic Director | ||
* [[Ryan Hill]] Producer | * [[Ryan Hill]] - Producer | ||
* [[Jessie Pascarelli]] Assistant Producer | * [[Jessie Pascarelli]] - Assistant Producer | ||
* [[Cat Drago]] Food Wrangler | * [[Cat Drago]] - Food Wrangler | ||
* Victoria Hawthorne Food Wrangler | * Victoria Hawthorne - Food Wrangler | ||
* [[Ruby Willmann]] Sponsorship Captain | * [[Ruby Willmann]] - Sponsorship Captain | ||
* [[Dave Alley]] Photography Coordinator | * [[Dave Alley]] - Photography Coordinator | ||
* [[Jessica Arjet]] Volunteer Coordinator | * [[Jessica Arjet]] - Volunteer Coordinator | ||
* [[Kareem Badr]] Planning | * [[Kareem Badr]] - Planning | ||
* [[Andy Crouch]] Planning | * [[Andy Crouch]] - Planning | ||
* [[Kaci Beeler]] Design | * [[Kaci Beeler]] - Design | ||
== Schedule == | == Schedule == | ||
* Friday 5pm (hour 1): The cast performed with teens from [[The Hideout Theatre]]'s summer camp. | |||
* Friday 6pm (hour 2): 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 (hour 3): ''[[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 (hours 4 & 5): ''[[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. | |||
** 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 (hour 6): [[Parallelogramophonograph]] presented "The Tab", a montage in which all the characters were blindfolded. | |||
* Friday 11pm (hour 7): [[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. | |||
** Like the ''Twin Peaks'' pilot, this performance featured an FBI agent investigating the murder of a teenage girl in a northwest logging town. | |||
* Saturday 12am (hour 8): ''[[The New Game Project]]'': the audience suggested the names of games, and the players invented and played games with those names. | |||
* Saturday 1am (hour 9): [[In Our Prime]]: grounded, dramatic improv, in this case based around an extended family attending a wedding. | |||
* Saturday 2am (hour 10): ''[[Past Lives]]'': following a soul through thematically-linked vignettes across history. | |||
* Saturday 3am (hour 11): [[Cheap Date]] | |||
* Saturday 4am (hour 12): "[http://improvencyclopedia.org/games/The_Bat.html The Bat]" with [[ColdTowne (troupe)|ColdTowne]]: an improv show in the dark. | |||
* Saturday 5am (hour 13): ''[[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 (hour 14): 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]]. | |||
** 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 (hour 15): Student Show | |||
** This was a set of short-form games. | |||
** This show featured student guests [[Ali Meier]], [[Corey Craig]], [[Greg Blank]], [[Jennifer Brinlee]], [[Niran Babalola]], and [[Ziad Rouhana]]. | |||
* Saturday 8am (hour 16): [[Waterpark]], a musical-improv troupe from [[The New Movement]], presented a non-narrative musical-improv show. | |||
* Saturday 9am (hour 17): ''[[Dubbed Indemnity]]'': improvising the dialog, sound effects, and soundtrack for silenced TV and film clips. | |||
** This featured guest [[Josh Gill]]. | |||
* Saturday 10am (hour 18): [[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 (hour 19): ''[[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 (hour 20): [[Arkay]] presents [http://www.improvinterviews.com/2006/11/jts-brown-description-by-craig.html JTS Brown]. | |||
* Saturday 1pm (hour 21): [[What's the Story, Steve?]]: kid-friendly improv, featuring a dog. | |||
** This featured guests [[Amy Carpenter]], [[Arian Brumby]], [[Clint Harris]], [[Drew Wesely]], [[Frank Netscher]], [[Kristin Henn]], and [[Luke Wallens]]. | |||
** 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 (hour 22): Free-form improv from the core cast. (Nicknamed "The Eye of the Storm", this is the exact midpoint of the marathon.) | |||
* Saturday 3pm (hour 23): [[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 (hour 24): ''[[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 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 (hour 25): [[The Amazon & The Milksop]] presented a series of improvised English Instructional Videos. | |||
* Saturday 6pm (hour 26): [[The Library]]: improvisors in several different genres performed a single narrative. | |||
* Saturday 7pm (hour 27): [[The Knuckleball Now]]: rapid-fire improv. | |||
* Saturday 8pm (hour 28): ''[[Theatresports]]'': two teams of improvisors competed in a series of improv challenges. | |||
* Saturday 9pm (hour 29): [[Confidence Men]]: improvised David Mamet. | |||
** They did "The Variations", a series of two-hander scenes based around an audience-suggested word (in this case, "pencil"). | |||
* Saturday 10pm (hours 30 & 31): ''[[Maestro]]'': an improv competition with ''[[wikipedia:Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Survivor]]''-style eliminations. | |||
** 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]]. | |||
* Sunday 12am (hour 32): ''[[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 (hour 33): [[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. | |||
** The core cast were joined by [[Chad Wellington]], [[Elizabeth Buchanan]], [[Jennifer Bateman]], [[Patrick Knisely]], [[Sara Farr]], and [[Topping Haggerty]]. | |||
* Sunday 2am (hour 34): ''[[Tech Nightmare]]'': wherein the players have to do everything the people in the tech booth tell them to. | |||
* Sunday 3am (hour 35): [[Big Beautiful Warlock]] presented ''[[Big Beautiful Warriors]]'', a game show with very non-traditional games. | |||
* Sunday 4am (hour 36): ''[[Pulp Friction]]'': improv in the style of [[wikipedia:Quentin Tarantino|Quentin Tarantino]]. | |||
** This hour featured guests [[Andreas Fabis]], [[Clifton Highfield]], [[Heidi Rogers]], [[Joe Ricks]], and [[Taylor Overstreet]]. | |||
* Sunday 5am (hour 37): a secret show, produced by [[Jason Vines]]. | |||
** This turned out to be "Human Clay", where Jason, in character as a Bob-Ross-like sculptor, 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 (hour 38): "The Queen Is Not Amused", wherein Jay Funky appeared via Skype, portraying the queen of England. | |||
* Sunday 7am (hour 39): Student Show | |||
** This was a long-form narrative set in New Orleans. | |||
** This show featured student guests [[Ammu Ganesan]], [[David Ronn]], [[Ericka Bundy]], [[Heather McConochie]], [[Lindsay Hejl]], and [[Patrick Creamer]]. | |||
* Sunday 8am (hour 40): ''[[Care Bear Stare]]'' -- The Care Bears came to bring badly animated joy to your lives. | |||
** 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 (and later, Bi Bear) | |||
* Sunday 9am (hour 41): [[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. | |||
** Guest performers: [[Asaf Ronen]], [[Clifton Highfield]], [[Deana Ricks]], [[Justin Davis]], [[Taylor Overstreet]], [[Tom Booker]]. | |||
* Sunday 10am (hour 42): ''[[Fakespeare]]'': improv in the style of William Shakespeare. | |||
** This version of the show started with a few Shakespearean improv games, and then segued into a narrative. | |||
** The narrative was based on a Persian attack on Jericho. | |||
* Sunday 11am (hour 43): [[Bad Boys]]: a non-narrative montage of scenes. | |||
* Sunday 12pm (hour 44): 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. | |||
Also, in between shows, [[Cat Drago]] performed, for the livestream, short interviews with people involved in the production. | |||
== | == Jay Funky == | ||
British improvisor | British improvisor Jay Funky was originally scheduled to play in the 44-Hour Marathon. Due to [http://www.scifiimprov.co.uk/1/post/2013/06/p2-needs-a-p2.html visa troubles], neither Funky 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. | [[Michael Joplin]] stepped in as Jonathan's replacement in the core cast. | ||
The Saturday 2am slot was originally scheduled for [http://www.scifiimprov.co.uk/ Project2], the science-fiction troupe that both | The Saturday 2am slot was originally scheduled for [http://www.scifiimprov.co.uk/ Project2], the science-fiction troupe that both Funky and Chris Mead are a part of. | ||
== Media == | |||
=== Photos === | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.554452047951649.1073741879.221927764537414&type=3 Selected marathon photos] by [[Steve Rogers]]. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/Heidi.N.Rogers/media_set?set=a.10103272537904680.1073741831.7909117&type=3 Marathon photos] by [[Heidi Rogers]]. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.587814621240037.1073741843.100000345135257&type=3 A photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] of hours 1 and 2. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.557128874350633.1073741886.221927764537414&type=3 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hour 3. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4944587095232.1073741839.1315383518&type=1 A photoset] by [[Michael Yew]] of hours 4-5, 38, and 42. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.557178957678958.1073741887.221927764537414&type=1 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hour 6. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.558100470920140.1073741888.221927764537414&type=3 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hour 7. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.588085074546325.1073741844.100000345135257&type=3 A photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] of hours 13-17 and 23-24. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/kellylynnjames/media_set?set=a.10151548373211630.1073741830.708236629&type=1 A photoset] by Kelly Lynn James of hour 20. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/kellylynnjames/media_set?set=a.10151548348941630.1073741828.708236629&type=1 A photoset] by Kelly Lynn James of hour 21. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/kellylynnjames/media_set?set=a.10151548363736630.1073741829.708236629&type=1 A photoset] by Kelly Lynn James of hour 22. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151445124280793.1073741853.666390792&type=1 A photoset] by [[Dave Alley]] of hours 25-29 and 43-44. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555620097834844.1073741882.221927764537414&type=3 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hours 30 and 31. | |||
** [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555618604501660.1073741881.221927764537414&type=3 A separate photoset] of the same hours which is all solo shots of [[Cat Drago]]. | |||
** [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555615611168626.1073741880.221927764537414&type=3 A separate photoset] of the same hours which is devoted solely to the show's opening samurai battle. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.556512987745555.1073741885.221927764537414&type=3 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hour 32. | |||
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.556099991120188.1073741884.221927764537414&type=3 A photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] of hour 33. | |||
=== Videos === | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/78386973 Hour 1: Teen Improv] | |||
** To get the password for this video, see [http://www.facebook.com/hujhax/posts/10152048144632265 this post] or contact [[Peter Rogers]]. | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/77387486 Hour 2: "Flowy Donut"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76770049 Hour 3: ''Start Trekkin'''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69060732 Hour 6: Parallelogramophonograph presents "The Tab"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69014376 Hour 7: Franz & Dave present "Pine Falls"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69401082 Hour 8: The New Game Project] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/74497522 Hour 9: In Our Prime] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/75798036 Hour 10: Past Lives] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/77204222 Hour 11: Cheap Date] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76581987 Hour 12: The Bat] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/77276938 Hour 13: Epic Telescope] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/75513299 Hour 14: The Veterans' Show] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/78231733 Hour 15: Student Show #1] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/74482653 Hour 16: Waterpark] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/73282840 Hour 17: ''Dubbed Indemnity''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/75469789 Hour 18: Local Genius Society] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69028237 Hour 19: ''Charles Dickens Unleashed''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76498906 Hour 20: Array] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76170079 Hour 21: What's the Story, Steve?] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76938927 Hour 22: "The Eye of the Storm"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69001828 Hour 23: Girls Girls Girls] | |||
** Unfortunately, we were only able to get the first 15 minutes or so of this show. | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/70460663 Hour 24: ''Pick Your Own Path''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69104964 Hour 25: ESL with The Amazon and the Milksop] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/76454272 Hour 27: The Knuckleball Now] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69454380 Hour 29: Confidence Men] | |||
* Hour 32: The Black Vault | |||
** [http://vimeo.com/69325354 Video by Victoria Hawthorne] | |||
** [http://vimeo.com/70318263 Video by Victoria Hawthorne and Peter Rogers] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/73323916 Hour 33: Puppet Improv Project] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69221817 Hour 34: ''Tech Nightmare''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/77117598 Hour 35: Big Beautiful Warlock] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/77031919 Hour 36: ''Pulp Friction''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/78187121 Hour 37: "Human Clay"] | |||
** [http://vimeo.com/78401240 An interview] that [[Cat Drago]] did with [[Kayla Lane Freeman]] after hour 37. | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/70615208 Hour 38: "The Queen Is Not Amused"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/70503492 Hour 40: "Care Bear Stare"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69145400 Hour 41: The Movie Format with the Institution Theater] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69196616 Hour 42: ''Fakespeare''] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/75559278 Hour 43: Bad Boys] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/70541270 Hour 44a: "The Final Countdown"] | |||
* [http://vimeo.com/69068028 Hour 44b: The Marathon-closing Q&A] | |||
== More Information == | == More Information == | ||
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* [http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15375&p=131708#p131708 The call for marathon volunteers] on [[The Austin Improv Forums]]. | * [http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15375&p=131708#p131708 The call for marathon volunteers] on [[The Austin Improv Forums]]. | ||
** [http://goo.gl/uCnNK The volunteer schedule.] | ** [http://goo.gl/uCnNK The volunteer schedule.] | ||
* [http:// | * [http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/thetheftforum/id/2362424 Interview] with core cast members [[Christopher "Ceej" Allen]], [[Kayla Lane Freeman]], and [[Peter Rogers]] on ''[[The Theft Forum]]''. |
Latest revision as of 00:40, 7 June 2014
The 44-Hour Improv Marathon was the fifth annual Hideout Improv Marathon.
Summary
It was performed in 2013, starting Friday, June 21 and ending Sunday, June 23.
Core Players
- Aaron Saenz
- Christopher "Ceej" Allen
- Jessica Arjet
- Kayla Lane Freeman
- Lindsey Reeves
- Lisa Jackson
- Michael Joplin
- Peter Rogers
Staff
- Roy Janik - Artistic Director
- Ryan Hill - Producer
- Jessie Pascarelli - Assistant Producer
- Cat Drago - Food Wrangler
- Victoria Hawthorne - Food Wrangler
- Ruby Willmann - Sponsorship Captain
- Dave Alley - Photography Coordinator
- Jessica Arjet - Volunteer Coordinator
- Kareem Badr - Planning
- Andy Crouch - Planning
- Kaci Beeler - Design
Schedule
- Friday 5pm (hour 1): The cast performed with teens from The Hideout Theatre's summer camp.
- Friday 6pm (hour 2): 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 (hour 3): 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 (hours 4 & 5): 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.
- 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 (hour 6): Parallelogramophonograph presented "The Tab", a montage in which all the characters were blindfolded.
- Friday 11pm (hour 7): 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 teenage girl in a northwest logging town.
- Saturday 12am (hour 8): The New Game Project: the audience suggested the names of games, and the players invented and played games with those names.
- Saturday 1am (hour 9): In Our Prime: grounded, dramatic improv, in this case based around an extended family attending a wedding.
- Saturday 2am (hour 10): Past Lives: following a soul through thematically-linked vignettes across history.
- Saturday 3am (hour 11): Cheap Date
- Saturday 4am (hour 12): "The Bat" with ColdTowne: an improv show in the dark.
- Saturday 5am (hour 13): 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 (hour 14): 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.
- 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 (hour 15): Student Show
- This was a set of short-form games.
- This show featured student guests Ali Meier, Corey Craig, Greg Blank, Jennifer Brinlee, Niran Babalola, and Ziad Rouhana.
- Saturday 8am (hour 16): Waterpark, a musical-improv troupe from The New Movement, presented a non-narrative musical-improv show.
- Saturday 9am (hour 17): Dubbed Indemnity: improvising the dialog, sound effects, and soundtrack for silenced TV and film clips.
- This featured guest Josh Gill.
- Saturday 10am (hour 18): 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 (hour 19): 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 (hour 20): Arkay presents JTS Brown.
- Saturday 1pm (hour 21): What's the Story, Steve?: kid-friendly improv, featuring a dog.
- This featured guests Amy Carpenter, Arian Brumby, Clint Harris, Drew Wesely, Frank Netscher, Kristin Henn, and Luke Wallens.
- 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 (hour 22): Free-form improv from the core cast. (Nicknamed "The Eye of the Storm", this is the exact midpoint of the marathon.)
- Saturday 3pm (hour 23): 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 (hour 24): Pick Your Own Path: improv in the style of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books.
- 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 (hour 25): The Amazon & The Milksop presented a series of improvised English Instructional Videos.
- Saturday 6pm (hour 26): The Library: improvisors in several different genres performed a single narrative.
- Saturday 7pm (hour 27): The Knuckleball Now: rapid-fire improv.
- Saturday 8pm (hour 28): Theatresports: two teams of improvisors competed in a series of improv challenges.
- Saturday 9pm (hour 29): Confidence Men: improvised David Mamet.
- They did "The Variations", a series of two-hander scenes based around an audience-suggested word (in this case, "pencil").
- Saturday 10pm (hours 30 & 31): Maestro: an improv competition with Survivor-style eliminations.
- 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.
- Sunday 12am (hour 32): 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 (hour 33): 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.
- The core cast were joined by Chad Wellington, Elizabeth Buchanan, Jennifer Bateman, Patrick Knisely, Sara Farr, and Topping Haggerty.
- Sunday 2am (hour 34): Tech Nightmare: wherein the players have to do everything the people in the tech booth tell them to.
- Sunday 3am (hour 35): Big Beautiful Warlock presented Big Beautiful Warriors, a game show with very non-traditional games.
- Sunday 4am (hour 36): Pulp Friction: improv in the style of Quentin Tarantino.
- This hour featured guests Andreas Fabis, Clifton Highfield, Heidi Rogers, Joe Ricks, and Taylor Overstreet.
- Sunday 5am (hour 37): a secret show, produced by Jason Vines.
- This turned out to be "Human Clay", where Jason, in character as a Bob-Ross-like sculptor, 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 (hour 38): "The Queen Is Not Amused", wherein Jay Funky appeared via Skype, portraying the queen of England.
- Sunday 7am (hour 39): Student Show
- This was a long-form narrative set in New Orleans.
- This show featured student guests Ammu Ganesan, David Ronn, Ericka Bundy, Heather McConochie, Lindsay Hejl, and Patrick Creamer.
- Sunday 8am (hour 40): 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:
- 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 (and later, Bi Bear)
- Sunday 9am (hour 41): 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.
- Guest performers: Asaf Ronen, Clifton Highfield, Deana Ricks, Justin Davis, Taylor Overstreet, Tom Booker.
- Sunday 10am (hour 42): Fakespeare: improv in the style of William Shakespeare.
- This version of the show started with a few Shakespearean improv games, and then segued into a narrative.
- The narrative was based on a Persian attack on Jericho.
- Sunday 11am (hour 43): Bad Boys: a non-narrative montage of scenes.
- Sunday 12pm (hour 44): 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.
Also, in between shows, Cat Drago performed, for the livestream, short interviews with people involved in the production.
Jay Funky
British improvisor Jay Funky was originally scheduled to play in the 44-Hour Marathon. Due to visa troubles, neither Funky 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 Funky and Chris Mead are a part of.
Media
Photos
- Selected marathon photos by Steve Rogers.
- Marathon photos by Heidi Rogers.
- A photoset by Claudio Fox of hours 1 and 2.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hour 3.
- A photoset by Michael Yew of hours 4-5, 38, and 42.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hour 6.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hour 7.
- A photoset by Claudio Fox of hours 13-17 and 23-24.
- A photoset by Kelly Lynn James of hour 20.
- A photoset by Kelly Lynn James of hour 21.
- A photoset by Kelly Lynn James of hour 22.
- A photoset by Dave Alley of hours 25-29 and 43-44.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hours 30 and 31.
- A separate photoset of the same hours which is all solo shots of Cat Drago.
- A separate photoset of the same hours which is devoted solely to the show's opening samurai battle.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hour 32.
- A photoset by Steve Rogers of hour 33.
Videos
- Hour 1: Teen Improv
- To get the password for this video, see this post or contact Peter Rogers.
- Hour 2: "Flowy Donut"
- Hour 3: Start Trekkin'
- Hour 6: Parallelogramophonograph presents "The Tab"
- Hour 7: Franz & Dave present "Pine Falls"
- Hour 8: The New Game Project
- Hour 9: In Our Prime
- Hour 10: Past Lives
- Hour 11: Cheap Date
- Hour 12: The Bat
- Hour 13: Epic Telescope
- Hour 14: The Veterans' Show
- Hour 15: Student Show #1
- Hour 16: Waterpark
- Hour 17: Dubbed Indemnity
- Hour 18: Local Genius Society
- Hour 19: Charles Dickens Unleashed
- Hour 20: Array
- Hour 21: What's the Story, Steve?
- Hour 22: "The Eye of the Storm"
- Hour 23: Girls Girls Girls
- Unfortunately, we were only able to get the first 15 minutes or so of this show.
- Hour 24: Pick Your Own Path
- Hour 25: ESL with The Amazon and the Milksop
- Hour 27: The Knuckleball Now
- Hour 29: Confidence Men
- Hour 32: The Black Vault
- Hour 33: Puppet Improv Project
- Hour 34: Tech Nightmare
- Hour 35: Big Beautiful Warlock
- Hour 36: Pulp Friction
- Hour 37: "Human Clay"
- An interview that Cat Drago did with Kayla Lane Freeman after hour 37.
- Hour 38: "The Queen Is Not Amused"
- Hour 40: "Care Bear Stare"
- Hour 41: The Movie Format with the Institution Theater
- Hour 42: Fakespeare
- Hour 43: Bad Boys
- Hour 44a: "The Final Countdown"
- Hour 44b: The Marathon-closing Q&A
More Information
- The show's web page.
- Cast announcement from The Hideout Theatre.
- The form for show suggestions.
- The show's sponsorship page.
- The call for marathon volunteers on The Austin Improv Forums.
- Interview with core cast members Christopher "Ceej" Allen, Kayla Lane Freeman, and Peter Rogers on The Theft Forum.