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Chinatown Invasion Show: UH Double Rainbows

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Special Guest: The UH Double Rainbows
Improv Comedy at Ong King

Honolulu, HI, June 12– Think Fast welcomes UH Manoa’s Double Improv Rainbows to the Chinatown Invasion: Improv Comedy Show at Ong King Art Center, 184 N King St.

The Double Improv Rainbows from UH Manoa join Think Fast Improv onstage at Ong King Arts Center for a night of unscripted theater, laughs and fun!

Think Fast will be saying goodbye to a long-time friend by playing The World’s Most Dangerous Improv Game- 2 Men, No Shoes, 50 Live Mousetraps.

Come out for a super fun time, support live comedy and have a few drinks.

Show starts at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. $10 at the door.

 

WHERE: Ong King, 184 N.King Street
WHEN: Friday, June 12th
TIMES: 7:30pm doors open, 8pm show begins!
TICKET: $10 at door
PARKING: Chinatown Municipal Parking ($3) on Smith/Nimtz and River/Nimitz

Improv Skills Class: Stagecraft

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We all have our stage. Scripted and improvised actors and stand-up comedians have an actual stage. Some of us play on the stage of everyday life, trying to speak and behave like “normal” human beings. Stagecraft is the technical skills of acting: blocking, vocals, physicality. These are the skills that help keep an audience engaged so they will listen to what you’re saying.

June’s Improv Skills Drop-In improv classes are focused on training your stagecraft skills to be a more dynamic performer and speaker. Topics to be covered include: physicality, space work, vocals, and theatricality.

 

WHERE: HiFi COOP, 2nd Floor, Ward Warehouse, 1050 Ala Moana Blvd STE. 2580, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
WHEN: Every Tuesday in April
TIMES: 7:30pm
TICKETS: $10/class or $35 for the month Classes start promptly at 7:30 every Tuesday. Classes run until 9:30.

 

Our Improv Skills are every Tuesday and open to everyone regardless of improv experience level.  If you’ve never improvised before, that’s great!  Our instructors are gentle and have plenty of experience to share.

Drop-in Improv Classes are held every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30.

For questions or more information on classes: e-mail us at info@thinkfastimprov.com or call Aaron at (808) 728-7146.

On the Spot presents… Walkabout Wednesday Comedy Throwdown!

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On the Spot Improv presents the Walkabout Wednesday Comedy Throwdown.

This FREE short form improv comedy Show pits 1 guest Improviser against our Iron Improvisers as they do battle for points, laughs, and audience appreciation every Wednesday night.  Your suggestions start the scenes, your approval crowns the winner!  To keep the improvisers honest, our referee will monitor the action, awarding points for stellar play or detracting points for violations.

Show starts at 7:30 at the ARTS at Marks Garage.  This is a relatively family-friendly show – come one, come all!

On the Spot presents… Walkabout Wednesday Comedy Throwdown!

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On the Spot Improv presents the Walkabout Wednesday Comedy Throwdown.

This FREE short form improv comedy Show pits 1 guest Improviser against our Iron Improvisers as they do battle for points, laughs, and audience appreciation every Wednesday night.  Your suggestions start the scenes, your approval crowns the winner!  To keep the improvisers honest, our referee will monitor the action, awarding points for stellar play or detracting points for violations.

Show starts at 7:30 at the ARTS at Marks Garage.  This is a relatively family-friendly show – come one, come all!

Wednesday Improv Throwdown presented by On The Spot

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On the Spot Improv presents the Walkabout Wednesday Improv Throwdown! Free Comedy!

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Now in its Third Season, this high-energy short form improv comedy show pits 1 guest Improviser against our Iron Improvisers in a 2v2 battle for points, laughs, and audience appreciation. Your suggestions start the scenes, your approval crowns the winner!  To keep the improvisers honest, our referee will monitor the action, awarding points for stellar play. And if the improvisers stumble, watch out for the yellow flag and loss of points.

Show starts at 7:30 at the ARTS at Marks Garage, and it goes down EVERY WEDNESDAY.  The performer lineup is constantly changing to incorporate the island’s best improvisers and special guests, so the only guarantee is a hilarious time.  This is a family-friendly show (with penalties awarded for the occasional slip-up) – come one, come all!

Best of all, this show is FREE!

About OTS Improv (from otsimprov.com):

On The Spot Improv is Hawaii’s longest running improv group. Established 2001, On the Spot from Aiea Hawaii, have been entertaining audiences all across the country with their unique brand of improvised theater. The group has been called one of the most innovative improv groups in the world by Chicago Improv Festival Executive Producer Jonathan Pitts for their unique approach to improvised theatre. Their signature style incorporates narrative storytelling, minimal dialog, and strong blocking to create cinematic images to tell complex stories.

OTS made a name for themselves in the national improv community creating several original genre-esque formats, such as their improvised macabre show “Tell Tale Dreadful,” their improvised homage to the master of suspense “Hitchcock,” their playful 1920’s live action silent movie show “HUSH.”

They Have performed all over the country such as the Austin Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Phoenix Improv Festival, Chicago Improv Festival, and recently at the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater.

Currently the ON THE SPOT is a full time partner with Hawaii Academy of Performing Arts / ARTS at Marks. Along with performing monthly improv shows, On the Spot also teaches on going improv classes, Produces a yearly scripted play, and host the annual Improvaganza Hawaii festival of Improv all from their home base at the ARTS at Marks Garage located in the Heart of the Honolulu Chinatown Arts District. (1159 Nuuanu Ave.Honolulu Hi, 96813)

Mr. Aaron Presents Improv Classes for All

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Join the founding members of improv team Think Fast as they teach a fun Short Form Improv Class at The Loading Zone Arts, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, $10/class, every Thursday throughout the month of January.

Learn:

  • Great skills to apply in your day-to-day life: communication, trust, support, agreement, confidence, and teamwork
  • Short form/theater games
  • Long form styles
  • Acting techniques including scene work, character development, stage presence, listening, and more
  • Reminding you how to play again!

About the instructors: Larissa Nielsen, Rory Franzen, and David K. Jones are the founders of Think Fast, the flagship improv team of Mr. Aaron Presents.  Together they have  25 years of improvisation, acting, teaching, coaching, and managing.

No experience necessary.  Novices, beginners, and experienced players are welcomed to take our classes along our students.  Students will learn improv techniques from their performance, and our advance performers will learn from you!  We are firm believers that this is a great way to learn the art of improvisation, which has been tested and proved over and over again.

Loading Zone Arts

47 N. Hotel Street

7:30pm-9:30pm

$10 drop-in class

www.mraaronpresents.net

Musical Short Form Improv Game Show

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On The Spot Improv will host an evening of Musical improv with their fast funny and outrageous Musical Short Form Improv Show at the ARTS at Marks Garage on Saturday November 16 at 8:00 pm .The evening will feature On The Spot members as well as students from On The Spot’s Musical Improv performing a number newly invented musical improv games.

Mr. Aaron presents “Think Fast!”: Aloha Rachel

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Mr.Aaron Presents a free night of improv fun with Think Fast, every second Friday at the Loading Zone, Chinatown starting at 8pm.

Join us as Think Fast! wishes one of their improvisers, Rachel Kesselman, farewell and aloha.  She’s picked her favorite short form games to play and is raring to rock out her last improv performance in Hawaii! Click here for our Facebook event!

Think Fast is a collection of students and experienced improvisers from the Adult Short Form Improv Program of Mr.Aaron Presents.  These improvisers are versed in the art of short form and long form improvisation.

Shows can vary from:

  • Showcases of local improv teams
  • Friendly theater sport competitions
  • Short Form Marathons
  • Specialty Long Forms
  • Mash-up / Team-up jams!

Tickets are FREE!

If you are an improviser or improv team looking to play, contact us through our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mraaronpresents or send us an email at mraaronpresents@gmail.com 

We invite one and all to play!