The bees knees

We are getting to the point in rehearsal where we need an audience badly. I can't tell if anything we are doing is funny anymore. All of the repetition has trained us to not laugh at what we should laugh at and because of it, we are lost. Don't get me wrong, things are going great and the scenes are really looking good, but we are just in a weird stage.

However, last night we had a breakthrough. We were rehearsing our last sketch and in the last few minutes of it, a few of the members did a bit of improv and the ending was fantastic. So good that we are keeping it. We spent over five minutes laughing about it.

I hope that this can continue, regardless we will have some people watching the show this week, so that will be a big help.

A couple days off.

I bet most of you thought that we would stay in Milwaukee over Thanksgiving Break to rehearse the sketch show. Well, we didn't, but what we did do, was decide that by the time we get back, we have to have all of our scripts memorized. I'll let you know how that goes. Going over the ones I wrote is pretty easy, but with so many crazy characters, and different writing styles, the rest may be a bit harder. Any tips?

2nd Sketch Show

Men and Women,

As of this moment, I am gearing up for my second sketch show. Last semester I did an all musical one which was a fantastic experience. The show is called "Carpe Denim: Jeans the Day!"

I think as of now, we have about 9 scenes, which were all written by the performers in the show. So the material is all ours, and because of that we have complete creative control on how everything is done.

Right now, we are just in the initial rehearsal, so nothing spectacular has happened so far, but we have had some great moments in improvisation within the written scenes. That kind of stuff keeps me excited for practices and eventually for the final show.

I'll be doing more updates as we go along, but I hope to see you there on December 6th.

jimmy