The Hideout Theater

cast of Slumber Party Slaughter

Roy here.

Welcome to the inaugural installment of Callback,  a new series of posts looking back at shows that happened somewhere in the recesses of The Hideout’s 11 year history. Improv is such a temporary, ephemeral art form, that I thought it would be nice to try and relive some of the highlights of the past.

We begin with a gruesome tale.

Ever since I started taking classes at the Hideout, I’d hear occasionally about Slumber Party Slaughter, a special Halloween show put on in 2003. I could never quite tell if the people involved thought it was the best thing ever, or a terrible, terrible idea. This all went down when the Hideout’s house troupe was still called The Heroes of Comedy. So naturally I asked an old-school Hero, Kevin Miller, to clue me in on the details.

Take it away, Kevin: