Our Current Improvisation Games
Director's Cut
The actors make up a scene from a movie made up by the
audience and then are each given emotions, foreign accents,
and musical styles to layer 'seamlessly' into their performance.
Sentences
The audience provides lines from songs, movies, or quotes
that are written down on slips of paper out of earshot of
those actors playing in the scene. The actors return and read
the lines seemlessly into the scene.
Forward/Reverse
The MC, with a magic remote control, reverses and forwards
the actors' lines and actions as they attempt to create a
co-herent scene.
Replay Scene
After the actors create a scene, the audience suggests new
emotions, film & theater styles, and groups of people
for the actors to replay the scene.
Love Duet
Two actors sing a love duet about a most unlikely subject
of the audience's choosing.
Advice Panel
Advice questions asked from the audience are answered
by each of the three panelists through their own unique perspectives.
Psyhco Guess the Phrase
A new 'saying' is made up by the audience and an actor
attempts to guess the phrase by the other actors giving him
syllable hints in the form of short scenes.
Half-Life
A scene created by the improvisers is cut in half time-wise
and then replayed with the new time limitation.
1-1-1
One actor can only speak in 1 sentence at a time, one
actor can only speak in 1 word at a time, and one actor must
give 1 entire monologue every time he/she opens his/her mouth.
Gibberish Opera
A new opera of the audience's choosing is created with
singing in gibberish.
Shakespeare
The actors create a scene or a full play in the style
of the great playwrite,William Shakespeare.
Film Trailer
The audience makes up the movie title, the cast creates
the theatrical movie trailer for the new film.
Gripe Choir
Actors complain in a choral fashion about gripes supplied
by the audience.
A Day in the Life
The cast re-enacts an ordinary day of an oridnary audience
member.
Buzzers and Bells
When the MC hears something that he doesn't like in the course
of the scene, he buzzes and the actor must try again to add
a new bit of information until the MC rings a bell.
Returns
A cast member attempts to return an object of the audience's
choosing to a store without knowledge of what the object is.
He/she must guess what the object is.
Here He Comes
Two actors set a third actor up for a big entrance by giving
him/her challenging character attributes with which he/she
must enter.
Emotional Barnyard Symphony
This one is exactly what it sounds like.
Props
Actors must come up with new uses for objects from the
audience member's pockets, purses, and vehicles that are brought
onstage.
Good Cop/Bad Cop
The actor playing the criminal must guess his crime and
why he did it (or who he killed, where, and with what)
while egged on by two cops giving subtle-to-not-so-subtle
hints.
Mystery Things
The audience suggests sports or activites and unusual
replacements for objects and people associated with those
sports, while 2 cast members give clues in gibberish to a
third who must guess all the sports and objects within the
time limit.
Run With It
Two actors must get a third actor to actually do 2 activities
onstage without the third actor knowing before hand what it
was.
Mime Debate
In debate fashion, two players must guess a multi-syllabic
adjective, noun, and verb supplied by the audience with only
charade-styel hints from the other players.
Oracle
The all-knowing, six-armed oracle can answer any question
in the world, asked by the audience...somtimes it's so amazing,
it's scary, and sometimes it's just scary.
Spelling Bee
A rare three-headed international spelling bee champ is
put to the test of his spelling acumen. Audience provides
the words, the cast provides the heads.
Heckler
While several actors onstage attempt to create a touching
or a moving dramatic scene, the other actors mock their attempts
from offstage.
Acronym Panel
Acronyms mean different things to different people. A
panel of colorful characters tells us what common acronyms
mean to them.
Expert Interview
The audience supplies an unusual or made-up area of expertise,
and an expert authoritatively sheds light and answers questions
on the subject.
Madrigal
A line from a recipe, a tabloid headline, and something
your mother used to say are composed into one song in the
style of a 16th Century Madrigal motet.
Oratorio
A story is told in the style of a 16th Century Madrigal
Motet.
Doo-Run-Run
Rhyming is key in this battle royale of singing wit. Sung
to the tune of "Doo-Run-Run" in case you hadn't
guessed already.
Irish Drinking Song
Players sing songs about audience members or suggested
subjects in the style of an irish drinking song. Being based
in Utah, our cast mimes only pure grape juice in our antique
Irish tankards..
Slide Show
Back from a recent trip to the place of your choosing,
a cast member 'shows slides' from the trip composed of the
rest of the actors from the troupe.
Story/Story/Die
Players tell a story as one mind but only one mouth at
a time. The MC directs which mouth speaks when, and players
must pick up seamlessly or they are "killed"*
* (in the world of improv, 'killed' technically means 'butchered'
or 'slaughtered' by another cast member, all in the name of
comedy)
Rap
Actors must 'rap' to suggestions provided by the audience
as best they can, but keep in mind that our current cast is
made up of completely white americans with eastern european
descent. (All other races are strongly encouraged to audition)
Pop Ballad
An actor must sing on the subject or object suggested by the
audeince.
Show Stopper
Much like a short broadway musical, the cast creates a
scene and then must break into song at the behest of the MC.
Radio
Cast members are assigned radio station genres provided
by the audience and then line up. The MC turns the radio dial
back and forth. Try that with a regular radio!
Stand/Sit/Bend
At every given moment of the scene, one actor must be
standing, one actor must be sitting, and one actor must be
bending over. Do not try this one at home. At home, try the
more difficult version, Stand/Sit/Kneel/Lie. It builds more
character.
Foriegn Movie
Two actors act in a foreign gibberish and two actors translate
or subtitle the unintelligable dialogue.
Musical Chairs
Our actors play this just like the childhood party game, minus
the innocence and plus the punnishments and embarressment
for not getting a seat. Punnishments include singing, delivering
speeches, mime, and modern dance.
In So Many Words
Actors can only speak sentences in the number of words
suggested. The number goes up and down when cast members make
mistakes.
Blind Dubbing
Two actors physically act out a scene while two actors
who cannot not watch the scene are providing the voices for
the physical actors. Hilarity ensues.
3 Way Dubbing
Each actor onstage must provide the voice for a different
actor onstage while moving his/her lips to the sound of the
actors voice who is providing the sound for him/her. As confusing
to play as it sounds.
Musical Triangle
Three actors bring the drama of a scene to a decisive
song.
Questions
Actors may only ask questions in this scene?
Puppeteer
One actor or audience volunteer moves the bodies and limbs
of the actors who may only speak and move their faces. Very
dangerous.
Silly Seer
The 'Seer', who does not listen to the scene, offers random
words that then influence the scene through the actors acting.
Don't Make Me Laugh
Any player who makes the audience laugh is sent to the
back of the line.
Boris
An invisible behomoth tortures the player if he does not
give all the details of his/her crimes to the cop.
Super Heroes
Players enter the stage to solve a world-crisis and don't
know what superhero they are until they are labeled by the
actor who entered before them. A great opportunity for revenge.
World's Worst
Actors offer short vignettes of the world's worst _________,
as filled in by the audience.
Evil Twins
Two actors are replaced in the course of a scene by a
pair of naughty twins who wreak havoc. The regulars then re-enter
and must fix the damage caused by the evils. Naughty evil
twins! Naugty!
First Line/Last Line
The first line and last line of the scene are provided
by the audience. The two actors must then bridge the gap between
the unrelated lines and end with the ending line.
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