Goals

I'm going to work on keeping up the energy. No backing down!

GOALS

As it was my idea, I will start the goal setting. I have one goal. Consistency...I go from great to good to lets kill him..This round I want to be up and strong for the majority of shows. Now lets hear from the rest of our team...

Vic

The Start

Hello All
Nice rehearsal today!! I am excited about this group. I feel like you all are going to bring some great things to stage, and i am excited to see it all. It is going to be a great summer for the Outtakes.

The Outtakes Results

The Outtakes

Jason Bindas – Director
Victor Avis
Emily Barrett
Larry Bieza
Jim Elsenpeter
Mahmoud Hakima
Jeff Kaisershot
Kenny Lewis
Brad Kruse
Kerry Pirnat
Adam Woolhouse

Congratulations everyone!! See you this Saturday.

The Bond

I have to say it was a great show last night for the Outtakes. I think your bonding experience early in the day brought a great connection for all of you. Great energy and play.
Bring it to the auditions. Break a leg y'all.

Jason, a message fro you!

Jason, Mike sent this to me because he can't reach you. It appears he is sick. get well soon Mike!!!


Larry, it's Mike S, It's Thursday and I am still in the hospital. I'll probably be out on sat. I tried to email jason but his box is full. Could you either email or call him and have him call me re the show and auditions? 612-296-2930. Mike

ONE MORE...

Hey yall,
One more show to make happen before auditions. Lets get ourselves a big crowd to enjoy the night. Hit it hard yall, and most of all, bring some serious play this round.
See you on the field.

So...

...just some thoughts about last night. First of all, I was disappointed that about 75% of the audience bolted after the first show. We had better "retention" at past shows. On the other hand, the crowd did not seem to get a lot of the improv at the first show. Maybe it was just as well that they left...

I felt extremely good about the Alphabet Song scene that Rick and I pulled off. Singing the whole thing sure got me out of my head of trying to think of the next line with the appropriate letter. Interesting that we had rhyming couplets for the first number of lines. I guess we have been trained, not necessarily from an improv school of thought, to make sure you sing two lines that rhyme. Oh well. Good thing we decided to drop the rhyming aspect. A few people said that was the longest Alphabet scene they ever saw. I had no concept of time while I was in the middle of the scene. It was fun! Kudos, Rick!

Arnold was solid again. I thought it was funny that we were given toothpick as a suggestion again...especially with Linda sitting there, operating the lights. When it was yelled out, I think there was a second where we all thought, "Well, who is going to go out there and do that one tonight?" Thank you, Lori, for stepping to the plate. :)

I also felt very good about my hosting of Party Quirks. Sometimes I have been nervous about that; I had a few past instances with tough bouts of guessing. I think my record was about 25 minutes from a few years ago (please try not to break that - it is sacred). Anyway, none of those past instances ever occurred to me last night. I was just up there on stage, ready for whatever would be thrown at me. I felt in control of the whole thing. Some characters I guessed quickly (McCain), and others took a bit more fishing (Marilyn Monroe the marine biologist - pardon the pun - and even Abe Lincoln with his sloganeering quirk). Still, I never had that black hole feeling of "My God, this is taking forever!"

Jeff