Higgins, Thallemer To Perform In ‘Night Of Comedy’
February 24, 2017 at 9:02 p.m.
By David [email protected]
The evening of sketch comedy, improvisation and more will take place at 7:30 p.m. March 11 at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the show are $10, and can be purchased online at wagonwheelcenter.org, over the phone at 574-267-8041, or in person at the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts box office.
“It’s completely produced by the Center Street Community Theater as kind of an effort to get the community more involved in what we’re doing and showcase some of the talent in the community theater, as well as get some celebrity guests to draw in the community,” said co-organizer Madisson Heinl.
She said guest performers Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer and Kosciusko County Community Foundation Executive Director Suzie Light will play “Jimmy Fallon-type” games, but didn’t want to give away what those games were. Higgins will be playing another game with Wagon Wheel Theatre’s Mike Yocum. Heinl said the games are a way to have some unscripted fun with them.
“We’ll also be doing a fully improvised murder mystery during the show with some Center Street Community Theater members,” she said. “We’ll also be doing some sketches, kind of like you’d see on ‘SNL,’ about things in the community that community members might find funny.”
There also will be a mini radio show that retired Warsaw Community High School teacher Dan Kuhn wrote. Local attorney Jay Rigdon, retired teacher Dave Baumgartner and other community members will appear in that.
“We’ll also do some improv, using a technique called gravid water. What that looks like is one person will have a script in their hand, and another person will be improvising the same scene, so it’ll be a mash-up of some of the plays we’ve done in the past, with some improv, to try and get some more of the Center Street Community Theater vibe in there,”?Heinl explained.
Pianist Bob Jarboe will accompany some of the sketches.
CSCT members expected to be a part of the show are Rebecca Crim, Tanor Joy, Melissa Jordan, Jennifer Mitchell Shepherd, Emilie Judy, Julie Kuhn, Gerald Cox, Joe Harmon and Trevor Jaynes.
Co-organizer Eric Totheroh said, “I think it’s going to be great because the community theater has a ton of talent and we get to see all these people in a different context than just in shows at the Wagon Wheel. A little looser. A little more of us than those characters.”
“It’s going to be a fun line-up of acts that really showcase not only talent in the community, but what makes the Warsaw community truly unique and exciting and a fun place to play,” Heinl said.
The “low price” of $10 for tickets is to make sure that arts are accessible to everyone in the community, she said. Tickets to CSCT shows are $12 – including this weekend’s performance of “The Curious Savage – and Heinl said they want to continue that.
“That’s part of our appeal and we want people to know that,” she said.
Proceeds go to CSCT to fund its shows and other events like its improv classes.
“As far as we know, nothing like this has ever really been done before, so we’re kind of excited to try it out and start a new tradition,”?Heinl said.
For more information about CSCT, visit its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CScommunitytheatre.
The evening of sketch comedy, improvisation and more will take place at 7:30 p.m. March 11 at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the show are $10, and can be purchased online at wagonwheelcenter.org, over the phone at 574-267-8041, or in person at the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts box office.
“It’s completely produced by the Center Street Community Theater as kind of an effort to get the community more involved in what we’re doing and showcase some of the talent in the community theater, as well as get some celebrity guests to draw in the community,” said co-organizer Madisson Heinl.
She said guest performers Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer and Kosciusko County Community Foundation Executive Director Suzie Light will play “Jimmy Fallon-type” games, but didn’t want to give away what those games were. Higgins will be playing another game with Wagon Wheel Theatre’s Mike Yocum. Heinl said the games are a way to have some unscripted fun with them.
“We’ll also be doing a fully improvised murder mystery during the show with some Center Street Community Theater members,” she said. “We’ll also be doing some sketches, kind of like you’d see on ‘SNL,’ about things in the community that community members might find funny.”
There also will be a mini radio show that retired Warsaw Community High School teacher Dan Kuhn wrote. Local attorney Jay Rigdon, retired teacher Dave Baumgartner and other community members will appear in that.
“We’ll also do some improv, using a technique called gravid water. What that looks like is one person will have a script in their hand, and another person will be improvising the same scene, so it’ll be a mash-up of some of the plays we’ve done in the past, with some improv, to try and get some more of the Center Street Community Theater vibe in there,”?Heinl explained.
Pianist Bob Jarboe will accompany some of the sketches.
CSCT members expected to be a part of the show are Rebecca Crim, Tanor Joy, Melissa Jordan, Jennifer Mitchell Shepherd, Emilie Judy, Julie Kuhn, Gerald Cox, Joe Harmon and Trevor Jaynes.
Co-organizer Eric Totheroh said, “I think it’s going to be great because the community theater has a ton of talent and we get to see all these people in a different context than just in shows at the Wagon Wheel. A little looser. A little more of us than those characters.”
“It’s going to be a fun line-up of acts that really showcase not only talent in the community, but what makes the Warsaw community truly unique and exciting and a fun place to play,” Heinl said.
The “low price” of $10 for tickets is to make sure that arts are accessible to everyone in the community, she said. Tickets to CSCT shows are $12 – including this weekend’s performance of “The Curious Savage – and Heinl said they want to continue that.
“That’s part of our appeal and we want people to know that,” she said.
Proceeds go to CSCT to fund its shows and other events like its improv classes.
“As far as we know, nothing like this has ever really been done before, so we’re kind of excited to try it out and start a new tradition,”?Heinl said.
For more information about CSCT, visit its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CScommunitytheatre.
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