“…sharp, focused, and riotously funny!”- The Austin Chronicle
*Winner of an Austin Critic’s Table Award*
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Hour | Day | Time | Group/Show | Format |
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1 | Friday | 5PM | Kids Mixer | The Kids from the Hideout Summer Camp get the Marathon kickstarted right. |
2 | Friday | 6PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
3 | Friday | 7PM | The Knuckleball Now | TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 15 years of existence |
4 | Friday | 8PM | Fancy Pants | The Fanciest Pantiest improv show in the Galaxy! |
5 | Friday | 9PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
6 | Friday | 10PM | Make it So | A 24th century crew on on ongoing mission: to boldly go where no one has gone before. |
7 | Friday | 11PM | Bah Humbug | The classic Hideout Mainstage returns: Improvised Tales of Victorian England in the style of Charles Dickens |
8 | Saturday | 12AM | Yichao ROCKS | This show will be whatever our guest, Yichao, wants to do with the hour. |
9 | Saturday | 1AM | Austin Secrets | This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets. |
10 | Saturday | 2AM | The Bat (presented by Victrola) | BAT! Improvised aural madness, performed entirely in the dark |
11 | Saturday | 3AM | Butterfly Defect | An improvised choose-your-own-adventure narrative where the story adapts to the choices the audience makes! |
12 | Saturday | 4AM | Intimate Portraits | Scenes about something calm. Something personal. A chance to chill out. |
13 | Saturday | 5AM | Hometown | interwoven stories of a small town, focusing on fast scene setups and grounded, lovable oddballs. |
14 | Saturday | 6AM | Next Door | We read Next Door posts and do scenes based on those posts. |
15 | Saturday | 7AM | Golden | Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage. |
16 | Saturday | 8AM | Sugar, Water, Purple | Austin's all black troupe, Sugar, Water, Purple brings their unconventional style to the stage. |
17 | Saturday | 9AM | Dubbed Indemnity | Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it's up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
18 | Saturday | 10AM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
19 | Saturday | 11AM | Minority Report | Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs! |
20 | Saturday | 12PM | ROOK | Rook is a modern musical improv troupe. It's broadway with less jazz hands and more deep thoughts and feels. |
21 | Saturday | 1PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | Behold! ¡ESCÁNDALO!: The Improvised Spanish/English Soap Opera! Melodrama knows no limits in this improvised narrative adventure. |
22 | Saturday | 2PM | Marathon Reunion show | The cast of the 2018 Marathon cheers on the 2019 Marathoners |
23 | Saturday | 3PM | Girls Girls Girls | Girls Girls Girls-Improvised Musicals is Austin's longest running, all-female musical troupe. |
24 | Saturday | 4PM | One Day Down | The last hour of the first day... and a brief respite for the core 8 to do whatever they want. This is when they need you the most. Come cheer them on. |
25 | Saturday | 5PM | Fuck This Week | A team of Austin's fastest, funniest comedians explore the week's weaknesses. |
26 | Saturday | 6PM | Dystopian Teen Future | An improvised take on Young Adult dystopian stories like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent |
27 | Saturday | 7PM | Dystopian Teen Future | An improvised take on Young Adult dystopian stories like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent |
28 | Saturday | 8PM | Harriet & Adanna Save Capitol High | An improvised, live action mystery comedy ala "Scooby-Doo" |
29 | Saturday | 9PM | Harriet & Adanna Save Capitol High | An improvised, live action mystery comedy ala "Scooby-Doo" |
30 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro 2.1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
31 | Saturday | 11PM | Maestro 2.2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
32 | Sunday | 12AM | Meat Cute | Inspired by Warm Bodies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Meat Cute is a star-crossed rom-com of supernatural proportions. |
33 | Sunday | 1AM | Puppet Improv Project | What's better than improv with puppets? Improv with puppets starring improvisers who haven't slept in 33 hours. A Marathon tradition! |
34 | Sunday | 2AM | The Black Vault | Improvised Cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft |
35 | Sunday | 3AM | Gigglepants | The boisterous group from The University of Texas (one of Austin's longest running groups) joins the fray and brings the games. |
36 | Sunday | 4AM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
37 | Sunday | 5AM | The Secret Show | what's this gonna be? WHO KNOWS? A Marathon Tradition |
38 | Sunday | 6AM | Gal Pals & Bro Buds | Gal Pals & Bro Buds explores the ins and outs of female/female and male/male friendships, from the happy times to the crappy times. |
39 | Sunday | 7AM | Taught: Improvised Stories from the classroom | Real life teachers improvise stories inspired by their experiences as educators. |
40 | Sunday | 8AM | TBD | |
41 | Sunday | 9AM | Echo Lake | Over-the-top organic heightening (weird noises and witch spellz) |
42 | Sunday | 10AM | Grand Misery | The Epic Improvised Tragic Musical Spectacular. |
43 | Sunday | 11AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
44 | Sunday | 12PM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Improv + Torture! Double Dare meets Dystopia! This game show pushes the limits of what improvisers can take, both mentally and physically. |
45 | Sunday | 1PM | Silly Love Songs | Come along on a journey of love and song, full of self-discovery, kooky characters, and all the swoon-worthy romance and masterfully improvised music your heart can handle. |
46 | Sunday | 2PM | Put Your Lips Together and Blow | a comedy noir improv show! |
47 | Sunday | 3PM | Fakespeare | An improvised play in the style of William Shakespeare, and an insane feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
48 | Sunday | 4PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
At 5:00pm on Friday June 28, 2019, eight brave and foolish improvisers will take the Hideout stage and stay there until 5pm on Sunday the 30th, performing 48 STRAIGHT HOURS of improvisational theatre and comedy without sleep or respite.
Each hour of the marathon will be a separate show, featuring classic and upcoming Hideout formats, one-off shows never to be seen again, and guest troupes and players from Austin’s ever-growing improv community.
Each hour of the marathon will cost $5 to watch. An all-access Marathon pass is available for $48, which, if you’re crazy brave enough to see all the shows, is a HUGE savings!
This year’s marathon improvisers will be Caeriel Crestin, Frank Sánchez, Jessica von Schramm, Jordan T. Maxwell, Lisa Michelle Jackson, Megan Sherrod, Monica Mahertinez, and Michael Yichao (visiting from Santa Monica!)
This year’s marathon will also be a fundraiser to raise money for The Hideout Youth Program. Our goal this year is $8000. For the entire marathon, we’ll be collecting donations from people like you clicking the donate buttons when checking out or visiting our GoFundMe
Click here to learn more about each of the Marathoners
Click here to expand and view the COMPLETE, searchable schedule
Hour | Day | Time | Group/Show | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Friday | 5PM | Kids Mixer | The Kids from the Hideout Summer Camp get the Marathon kickstarted right. |
2 | Friday | 6PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
3 | Friday | 7PM | The Knuckleball Now | TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 15 years of existence |
4 | Friday | 8PM | Fancy Pants | The Fanciest Pantiest improv show in the Galaxy! |
5 | Friday | 9PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
6 | Friday | 10PM | Make it So | A 24th century crew on on ongoing mission: to boldly go where no one has gone before. |
7 | Friday | 11PM | Bah Humbug | The classic Hideout Mainstage returns: Improvised Tales of Victorian England in the style of Charles Dickens |
8 | Saturday | 12AM | Yichao ROCKS | This show will be whatever our guest, Yichao, wants to do with the hour. |
9 | Saturday | 1AM | Austin Secrets | This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets. |
10 | Saturday | 2AM | The Bat (presented by Victrola) | BAT! Improvised aural madness, performed entirely in the dark |
11 | Saturday | 3AM | Butterfly Defect | An improvised choose-your-own-adventure narrative where the story adapts to the choices the audience makes! |
12 | Saturday | 4AM | Intimate Portraits | Scenes about something calm. Something personal. A chance to chill out. |
13 | Saturday | 5AM | Hometown | interwoven stories of a small town, focusing on fast scene setups and grounded, lovable oddballs. |
14 | Saturday | 6AM | Next Door | We read Next Door posts and do scenes based on those posts. |
15 | Saturday | 7AM | Golden | Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage. |
16 | Saturday | 8AM | Sugar, Water, Purple | Austin's all black troupe, Sugar, Water, Purple brings their unconventional style to the stage. |
17 | Saturday | 9AM | Dubbed Indemnity | Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it's up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
18 | Saturday | 10AM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
19 | Saturday | 11AM | Minority Report | Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs! |
20 | Saturday | 12PM | ROOK | Rook is a modern musical improv troupe. It's broadway with less jazz hands and more deep thoughts and feels. |
21 | Saturday | 1PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | Behold! ¡ESCÁNDALO!: The Improvised Spanish/English Soap Opera! Melodrama knows no limits in this improvised narrative adventure. |
22 | Saturday | 2PM | Marathon Reunion show | The cast of the 2018 Marathon cheers on the 2019 Marathoners |
23 | Saturday | 3PM | Girls Girls Girls | Girls Girls Girls-Improvised Musicals is Austin's longest running, all-female musical troupe. |
24 | Saturday | 4PM | One Day Down | The last hour of the first day... and a brief respite for the core 8 to do whatever they want. This is when they need you the most. Come cheer them on. |
25 | Saturday | 5PM | Fuck This Week | A team of Austin's fastest, funniest comedians explore the week's weaknesses. |
26 | Saturday | 6PM | Dystopian Teen Future | An improvised take on Young Adult dystopian stories like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent |
27 | Saturday | 7PM | Dystopian Teen Future | An improvised take on Young Adult dystopian stories like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent |
28 | Saturday | 8PM | Harriet & Adanna Save Capitol High | An improvised, live action mystery comedy ala "Scooby-Doo" |
29 | Saturday | 9PM | Harriet & Adanna Save Capitol High | An improvised, live action mystery comedy ala "Scooby-Doo" |
30 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro 2.1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
31 | Saturday | 11PM | Maestro 2.2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
32 | Sunday | 12AM | Meat Cute | Inspired by Warm Bodies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Meat Cute is a star-crossed rom-com of supernatural proportions. |
33 | Sunday | 1AM | Puppet Improv Project | What's better than improv with puppets? Improv with puppets starring improvisers who haven't slept in 33 hours. A Marathon tradition! |
34 | Sunday | 2AM | The Black Vault | Improvised Cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft |
35 | Sunday | 3AM | Gigglepants | The boisterous group from The University of Texas (one of Austin's longest running groups) joins the fray and brings the games. |
36 | Sunday | 4AM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
37 | Sunday | 5AM | The Secret Show | what's this gonna be? WHO KNOWS? A Marathon Tradition |
38 | Sunday | 6AM | Gal Pals & Bro Buds | Gal Pals & Bro Buds explores the ins and outs of female/female and male/male friendships, from the happy times to the crappy times. |
39 | Sunday | 7AM | Taught: Improvised Stories from the classroom | Real life teachers improvise stories inspired by their experiences as educators. |
40 | Sunday | 8AM | TBD | |
41 | Sunday | 9AM | Echo Lake | Over-the-top organic heightening (weird noises and witch spellz) |
42 | Sunday | 10AM | Grand Misery | The Epic Improvised Tragic Musical Spectacular. |
43 | Sunday | 11AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
44 | Sunday | 12PM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Improv + Torture! Double Dare meets Dystopia! This game show pushes the limits of what improvisers can take, both mentally and physically. |
45 | Sunday | 1PM | Silly Love Songs | Come along on a journey of love and song, full of self-discovery, kooky characters, and all the swoon-worthy romance and masterfully improvised music your heart can handle. |
46 | Sunday | 2PM | Put Your Lips Together and Blow | a comedy noir improv show! |
47 | Sunday | 3PM | Fakespeare | An improvised play in the style of William Shakespeare, and an insane feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
48 | Sunday | 4PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR 2019 SPONSORS:
Chuy’s, Easy Tiger, Hoboken Pie, Dai Due Taqueria, and Patrizi’s