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Apr 6, 20090

How To: Get Cheaper Tickets to CCC Movie Roasts

Filed under: Live Shows, Movie Roasting, how-to

Buy them online! They’re $12 at the door and $10 online. The Top Gun Roast is on track for a sellout so you should buy them in advance anyway. You can do so here: Buy Screenland Movie Roast Tickets. Just click “Buy Tickets” at The Screenland Theater at The Crossroads location. (It’s the first one, it’s easy.)

Feb 7, 20090

Karate Kid Sold Out Online – Don’t Get Turned Away Next Time…

Filed under: Live Shows, Movie Roasting, how-to

LOL Cat - Do you want Karate?

The Saturday night Karate Kid movie roast sold out at 11a.m. that morning. We hate to see people get turned away, so we’re working on that. (We’re seeing if adding a third show will be possible.) But until then, make sure you pre-order online. You’ll always be able to buy tickets in advance here in the middle column where we list the shows.

Jan 6, 20090

Improv Game: The Rant Conductor

Filed under: Improv Games, Live Shows, Video, how-to

(The lighting is bad. And it will be until we’re not poor, so bear with me…)

This improv game is The Rant Conductor. (Other names may be Rant Symphony / Rant Orchestra / Emotional Orchestra.) Just as the name implies you have one improvisor “conduct” the other improvisors as they explore an emotional state based on a suggestion the audience.

PROS:

  • You get several ask-fors, or audience suggestions, in a row right away. This makes a good opener/ice-breaker, because it warms up the crowd and gets several of them participating at once.
  • Theoretically, the numbers of players in the game are limitless as long as you have a conductor that can manage them.
  • Fun and fast laughs as the conductor hams it up during his/her entrance.
  • This is a great chance for improvisors to explore their “Emotional Ten.”
  • Plays well as a character game.

CONS:

  • Individual rants are easily lost as the “orchestra” comes to a crescendo.

MISC:

  • You could easily performs this as a Rant Duet with two players and a dueling banjo vibe.
  • This is a great game to practice listening while speaking and sharing the stage.
  • Call additional players forward for solos during the performance is fun.

Upcoming events...

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    • Movie Roast: Sex And The City
      @Screenland Theatre at Crown Center
      9:30 PM - Friday, August 20th
      9:30 PM - Saturday, August 21st
    • Sex And The City is that hot smart funny girl you knew while she was a TV series that hasn't aged well. Come help us put the ginger, the priss, the ho and horse in their right place-not on a silver screen-at the end of a punch line.
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
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    • Movie Roast: The Breakfast Club
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:30 PM - Friday, September 24th
      9:30 PM - Saturday, September 25th
    • Is Claire really a fat girl's name? Does anyone do jumping jacks and cartwheels after they smoke pot? Has this movie aged gracefully? The answer to at least two of those questions is no. Find out which ones as we bust up this gang of teenage misfits in this 80's classic that's no where near as good as you remember.
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
      View Map (opens in new window)
    • Movie Roast: Fatal Attraction
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:30 PM - Friday, October 22nd
      9:30 PM - Saturday, October 23rd
    • Sometimes you can like something too much. So much that you want to kill it. We'll be killing it all night with this late 80's thriller. It will certainly be an affair to remember!
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
      View Map (opens in new window)
    • Movie Roast: To Be Anounced
      @Screenland Theatre at Crown Center
      9:30 PM - Friday, November 12th
      9:30 PM - Saturday, November 13th
    • We'll think of something, and you're gonna love it!
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
      View Map (opens in new window)
    • Movie Roast: To Be Announced
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:30 PM - Friday, November 12th
      9:30 PM - Saturday, November 13th
    • We'll think of something, and you're gonna love it!
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
      View Map (opens in new window)

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    3rd row; 4th from the right
    Summer '08 Show