Musical Improv Comedy | JesterZ Improv

We have made it through our first month doing musical improv with guess performer, Mary Hoffman. It was a lot of fun but even more of a learning experience for us JesterZ. In the past we have occasionally added musical games to our shows but very little with an accompanist.

First, super props to Mary Hoffman and her ability and willingness to play with us. I am sure she was frustrated with us from time to time. She is a super talented musician, song writer and everything… we were very lucky to have her with us.

Second, musical improv comedy is a whole different animal from regular improv comedy. There is a tendency to get up in your head and thing too much about the song or the rhyming patterns, which are important… but not as important as the scene.

Lastly, we have a long ways to go. Occasionally, we will put together a song that is really dynamite, we love it the audience loves it… Mary loves it and all is well. However, sometimes we miss… the audience loves it, we like it and Mary is always nice about it. Conclusion, we will continue to work very hard on musical improv.

Mary Hoffman will be doing a show February 6th, 6pm at Theater 168… this is a great opportunity to catch Mary in a smaller setting before she makes it big! (check out the details below, and check out facebook for a special offer)

Mary Hoffman

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Catching up | JesterZ Improv

It has been a while since we posted anything on here but believe us when we say there has been plenty going on at Jester’Z Improv. We had a fantastically busy holiday season, shows all over the Phoenix metro area and  some wonderful holiday shows at the theater. Now that the holidays are over and we are looking forward to a fantastic 2010, there are just a couple of new items that we wanted to touch on at the beginning of the year, or at least before January ended.

1. We have a wonderful schedule of upcoming events available on facebook. We will try to keep everyone up to date on this blog but facebook will be the main source for up coming events.
2. JesterZ Mob – We are in the process of putting together a “street team” group that we refer to as the Jester’Z… we are still working out the details for that but expect something on that in the next 3 months.
3. Musical Improv – If you have been to the theater in the last month you know that we have added a musical element to out shows. We had a very talented local musician, Mary Hoffman, at Jester’Z over the last month to help up out with the music side of things. We will be doing the music on the full time level, but will definitely be adding more music from time to time.
4. Lastly, is a small look back. Over 2009 We really got involved in some exiting, no necessarily new, but new to us ways of interacting with our fans. One of them being this blog, but also our facebook fanpage, which has nearly 1500 fan and our twitter account which has over 600 followers. We have had a blast interacting with our fans and hope the filling in mutual.

All in all 2010 is going to be an out standing year at JesterZ, a monumental year!

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