SHOW TIMES CHANGE

Hi everyone,

Just wanted everyone to know that our show times for Friday Night Improv, and Improv A**Hole!  will change to 10pm from 3/14 – 4/11.  Why the change, you ask?  Because our friends from Out of Hand Theater are performing their awesome production called, “Stadium 360″.   It’s a hilarious take on sports and thefans that love them.  Their show starts at 8pm Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and is followed by The Village Theatre improv shows.   Thanks, email the box office with any questions…BLZ

New Class! 2/17/09 Tuesdays at 7:30pm

Village Theatre is offering a new Level 1 Improv Class, beginning 2/17/09.  The class will run for 8 weeks on Tuesday nights from 7:30 – 9:30pm.  Cost of the class is $100 / month.  Space is limited!  For more info, contact us at villagecomedy@gmail.com.  THANKS!

blz

2009 – The New Year

 Village Theatre would like to thank all of our family, friends, patrons, supporters, advertisers, sponsors, haters (even bad publicity is good, right?), well-wishers, n’er-do-weller’s, Hollabraters, EAV’ers, community folks, walkers-by, and shire dwellers for a fantastic 2008.  Without all of you, we’d be slightly more of a group of slackers than we are today!  A bow, some applause, and a “THANK YOU”. 

However, it doesn’t stop there – VT has ALOT of stuff on board for 2009!  Make sure to keep checking the blog and web site calendar for new stuff coming up throughout the year.   A quick taste: 

CLASSES!  Short Form Improv class taught by Justin Hall begins MONDAY the 12th (check out our classes page)

NEW SHOWS!  THE NEWS, The Dirty Rappers, and some Broadway Spoofs are on tap for Feb following Improv A**Hole! & and our house LONG FORM TEAM, “Longform Steakhouse”. 

OUR HOMIES:  Out of Hand Theater will be performing “Stadium 360″ beginning in March, and don’t miss out on Ms. Effie’s Slap Strip Bourlesque Show the first Saturday in MARCH!  naughty

BLZ

New Years Eve – The Hollabration Party

Get geared up for The Village Theatre NYE Bash – The Hella Hollabration (III).   This event features 3 awesome local atlanta bands.  Featured lineups and times are as follows:

10pm – 10:20pm = The CRB (“Crazy Rock Band”)

10:45 – 11:20pm = The Lucky Dawgs

11:40 – close = Soulhound

DJ Jesster will also be on the one’s and two’s between sets and late night.  Cabs and cab numbers will be handy for everyone.  Doors open at 9:30pm.  $20 online or $25 bucks cash at the door – better get tickets now before they sell out! 

BLZ 

Long Form Class Showcase! 12/13 & 12/20

That’s right – Josh Warren’s Long Form Class will be making their VT debut at 8:30pm on the 13th and 20th of December.  Followed by the Village Theatre’s own performance of Improv A$$hole!  Cost is only $10!  Reserve your tickets NOW………

BLZ

Movie Night – this Sunday (11/23)

This Sunday, 11/23 hails the return of Movie Night at The Village Theatre.  This time, we’ll be viewing Airplane 1 & 2 back to back beginning at 8pm.  NO COVER (that means it’s FREE).  Damn…

BLZ

Marc Mooney FAQ

Q: What is improv?

A: According to your spell check, it’s “improve.”

Q: How do you come up with your skits?

A: Skits! I remember skits from Vacation Bible School.  

Q: When was your first improv performance?

A: One day during freshman high, I brought a kazoo inside a school assembly to amuse my friends. Taking offense, a teacher pulled me out of my seat and made me perform on the stage for the entire school. I took requests and my first song was AC/DC’s “Hells Bells.” Because I was into Christian rock and adult contemporary,  I had no idea how the song went. I made it up and it came out sounding more like smooth jazz.

Q: What’s your day job?

A: When one of my former English teachers found out what I do for a living, she was a little disappointed.      

Q: What’s on the ceiling?

A:  Remnants of improve.

Opening Weekend

Thanks to everyone who came to our first official shows this past weekend. It feels great to perform in our own space–one that’s fun, inviting and conducive to laughter. Feng shui is important. One misplaced folding chair and our chi deflects to the post office.

I heard the show Friday was great. I got there just in time to see a few people look at me quizzically as they left. I did the show Saturday, and if you were there you might have seen me fall off the stage. I’m still getting my bearings and apparently I need to learn how to use a door and a staircase again. In the first scene of the short form set, I left the stage with some zinger about Guatemala. As I opened the door, I fell to the floor and nearly chi-ed my pants.

The rest of the night was a blur, but I do remember certain things. Drawings in a bathroom.  Josh and Mike riding a scooter. McDonald’s at 3 a.m. The ghost of Robert Browning whispering, “God’s in His heaven. All’s right with the world.” and “You didn’t play dialects?”

The Month of OCTOBER

Get ready for an exciting month here at the Village Theatre.   In addition to our opening weekend of kick ass improv shows (10/3 & 10/4), we’ve got comedy from Playing in Traffic (every thurs beg. 10/9) as well as Out of Hand Theater’s – The Game (on Oct 18th).   So, keep checking our events section, and look forward to our new Calendar Page that is currently in development.   As always, for reservations contact our box office at 404-688-8858 or villagecomedy@gmail.com.  THANKS!

BLZ

The Hell of Hello

Hello, I’m Marc Mooney and I’m a half-assed misanthrope. I hate meeting new people, so let me welcome you to Village Theatre from behind the mini-blinds of this blog.  

Maybe one day we’ll meet in person. If that happens, expect the following:   

I’ll look at you askance and assume you’re looking for someone else or the bathroom. You’ll say “good show” and I’ll say “thanks.” I’ll sweat and stare at the exit.

But somehow, when all seems lost,  we’ll stumble upon some common ground: probably some form of mass media. I’ll love you. Probably too much. I’ll exhaust every possible joke to be made about The Weather Channel, but you won’t mind because you’ll love me, too. We’ll laugh at Storm Stories and I’ll burn with shame for wanting to hide from you earlier. I’ll remind myself that people are wonderful once you get to know them, and I’ll vow to be more open to new people and conversations.

Until I meet your friends.