Friday, March 24, 2006

Loonie Lundi



Until April 10th Urban Improv is presenting Loonie Lundi Mondays at Chivana on West 4th.
It's only a dollar. Yep a buck. One loon. That's all. Full show. 2 hours. One dollar. 50 cents an hour. The best improv talent in the city.

Why so cheap? Well, we could either spend a lot of money on advertising to tell everyone about our temp home until we're back at the Urban Well April 17th or we could just pass the savings onto you, the audience.

You can do the old, "Hey pals, I'll pay for the show if you buy the first round of drinks". Then you pay their $1 admission and get free drink after free drink until you get alcohol poisoning. *

Mondays 9pm Chivana 2340 west 4th

* The BC Liquor Board, Chivana, Urban Well, Urban Improv, and anyone with half a brain advise that you drink responsibly.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Blackout Broadcast

We’ve done some dark material in our shows before but tonight at Chivana looked like it was going to be our darkest show ever thanks to a power outage. But good on Chivana for staying open when all the other scaredy cat businesses closed their doors.
We ended up doing a show for Becky’s stagette and what we lacked in crowd size we made up for with some great audience members.
What did they end up seeing? Well, in a Wreck Beach scene Drew’s enormous penis got carried away by the ocean’s undertow, we went to an all clown dimension, we saw what happens when all you put in your wedding registry is a 72 inch Plasma TV and you get dozens of them, we saw a one armed Safeway sale announcer try to get revenge, and we learned why when you make a wish on towel genie you should always be very very clear.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Foster Home Temporarily Adopts Improv Group


Until our return to the Well on April 17th you'll be able to find Urban Improv at Chivana 2340 West 4th at 9pm on Mondays. Same time, same folks, same show.

It's like a road trip. Except it's just a couple of blocks away. But still, road rules apply. We're away from home and what happens on the road stays on the road. See you there!

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

We'll be back April 17th!

the urban well will be closed for the next 5 weeks, but we'll be back on monday april 17th.

we had a GREAT audience tonight...



but then they got drunk


McGowan's all grown up!


not only was it the last show for several weeks, it was mcgowan's bday and he turned 28. and did the improv to prove it.

2nd half of last show for 5 weeks


clockwise from top left:
dave mcgowan, ian boothby, toby berner, nathan clark, taz vanrassel, diana frances and chris casillan

WWJD?




On tonight’s show we learned WWJD (Who Would Jesus Date). Had an intervention for the Holy Spirit to talk about his drinking problem. Met a police officer with a tendency to blame all murders on Teen Wolf. Had a man explain why he was wearing lingerie in the sun run. A French teacher tried to make a difference in a child’s life. The Grad 2000 class went on a party binge that never ended. And we saw a lot of children’s dolls meet horrible car accident endings in the dubbing of the 1960s safety film “A Seatbelt For Suzie”.

We're off for a few weeks while the Urban Well does renovations. We'll be back April 17th! It'll be big. Very big. There might be cake.

Or not. I can't really promise anything.