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Award winning, Internationally touring improv from Parallelogramophonograph, plus Furiously Missing

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Improvised episodes of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek

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Sci-Fi Comedy Double Feature Podcast

The following is the transcription of the beginning of a 10 minute audio podcast with cast members (pictured above) of The Sci-Fi Comedy Double Feature premiering at the Hideout this Saturday at 8pm.


Troy: Okay, welcome to the Sci-Fi [Comedy] Double Feature podcast with some members of the cast…
(cast members create a musical intro to podcast)

Troy: We have some members of the cast here, we’re going to discuss the show. I’m Troy Miller, I’m going to moderate this podcast. We’ll go around the circle this way (clockwise), please introduce yourself…
Andy: Hi, I’m Andy Crouch.
Alex: Hi, I’m Alex Dobrenko.
Ruby: I’m Ruby Wilmann.
Lauren: I’m Lauren Zinn.
Troy: Okay, great. So, let’s get right into this. Uh– so, first off– how many of you, besides me, because I would consider this, how many of you would consider yourselves “Trekkies”, or hardcore fans of Star Trek? Do we have any Trekkies here?
Andy: I would say I’m an appreciator, but not a Trekkie. I grew up with a passionate love of Star Wars, so I think I’m excluded from–
Troy: That is not part of this discussion.
(laughter)

Alex: Somebody get this guy out of here.
Lauren: Andy, it’s a whole different movie. Whole different characters.
Troy(to others, sans Andy) I’m pretty sure you guys aren’t Trek fans, like hard core…
Ruby: I was never a Trekkie, but for about a year and a half in grade school, in elementary school, I watched Star Trek, the original series, every day after school.
Lauren: Ahhhh.
Ruby: Having said that, fifteen years later I could not remember any of the character names.
Andy: Yeah, yeah– Ruby wanted to audition for the show, and I was pop quizzing her, and I don’t even think she got Spock right.
Ruby: That’s not true.
Alex: I thought I was auditioning for Star Wars. (laughter) So, when I got cast it was strange.
Troy: Let’s talk about Twilight Zone…
PLAY THE AUDIO FOR THE REST OF THE PODCAST

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In Praise of Marc Majcher and the Last Nightmare Video Project

I would like to take a moment to sing the praises of Marc Majcher.

Since September 2010, Marc has been recording DVDs for The Nightmare Video Project, one of the Hideout’s craziest, most ridiculous shows… and one of the shows that requires the most preparation.

In it Marc plays The Master, or The Gatekeeper… a demon from/in Hell who is tormenting 8 improvisers by directing them in a show. The winner of the show gets to live, and the rest all burn in Hell.

The ridiculous part is that Marc’s role is entirely prerecorded onto a DVD. The Gatekeeper starts scenes, sidecoaches and shouts “SCENE IS OVER” all without actually watching the show… and his giant head hovers over the show on the projection screen like a looming god.

It takes Marc hours and sleepless nights to do this.

He almost never gets to see the show because he’s a busy man and usually is performing simultaneously at another theater.

He doesn’t have the benefit of an audience to gauge the reaction to his jokes.

He has to go on instinct.

He does a wonderful job.

The Gatekeeper is silly, funny, irreverent, stern, absurd, and somehow generates a good shape to the show that builds to a satisfying conclusion.

The Nightmare Video Project has been a monthly staple of The Hideout for well over a year.

But tonight is the last one.

We’re changing up the Friday 8pm lineup in 2012 to include more student/improviser participation.

Marc’s plan for tonight’s show is to do a Holiday Nightmare Video Project.

As always, I have no idea what the show will include. But my money’s on The Gatekeeper wearing a Santa Hat.

Come bid the show a fond farewell.

Get your tickets here.

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