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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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    • Live Comedy Show - Red Carpet Improv
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:00 PM - Friday, March 19th
    • Our Red Carpet Improv Comedy show is a lot like Whose Line is It Anyway? But with less Drew Carey and more bar service. Each show is unscripted and created entirely on the spot from audience suggestions. Come out and laugh with us at a live comedy event custom-tailored for you.
    • Advance Tix - $10 Online
      Box Office Tix - $10 at the door
      No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
      Full bar service available
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    • Movie Roast: Rambo: First Blood
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:30 PM - Friday, April 9th
      9:30 PM - Saturday, April 10th
    • Now look: a debatable lazy-eye and a speech impediment is no way to judge whether or not someone can kill you in a fight and Stallone proves it in this 80's action masterpiece. Witness the birth of a legend all over again as we do anything but contain the mess that is John Rambo's life. He was just another drifter who broke the law! Sentenced to 93 minutes of hard roasting, son, them's the brakes...
    • 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: Twilight
      @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
      9:30 PM - Friday, May 21st
      9:30 PM - Saturday, May 22nd
    • In horror movies, real vampires don't sparkle, and whiney-vapid girls are meant for snacking not loving. So "Hold on tight, spidermonkey!" (Actual movie dialogue.) It's an evening of fresh-roasted puppy-love schmaltz that is going to take this teen/just-pre-menopausal melodrama sensation to all new heights!
    • 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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See what other live entertainment goers in Kansas City have to say...

  • "Providing continued evidence of Kansas City's improv renaissance..."
    -Alan Scherstuhl, The Pitch
  • "This is a troupe that works for their laughs. The improvisational games are fresh, hip, creative and hysterically funny."
    -Kate Egan, KC Stage
  • "Who assembled this team of SuperFriends!? It's too much I tell you! I can't breathe out my lungs no more!!"
    -Jill Bernard, Drum Machine
  • "...brings the funny like you wouldn't believe... strong, inventive performers."
    -Alan Scherstuhl, The Pitch
  • "That's got to be like, the funniest f!@#ing thing I've ever seen."
    -A LOUD Blonde Audience Member
    3rd row; 4th from the right
    Summer '08 Show