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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.

Improv Brew Haha

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Get ready to laugh with Think Fast and friends!  Chinatown’s improv team Think Fast will be hosting and performing a night of comedic good times at the “Improv Brew Haha”!  Audience members will be treated to a show completely made-up and inspired by suggestions they give!

Last Saturdays of each month, Think Fast welcomes all improvisers to pop in before the show and create all new teams that very night!  Throughout the night, Think Fast will also perform their favorite short form games, as well as their stylized long form piece for the evening.

Doors open at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8pm.  There will be one 10 minute intermission and a bar with a variety of alcoholic beverages and soft drinks available.

Tickets are $10 at the door at Ong King Arts Center located on 184 N.King Street.

WHERE: Ong King, 184 N.King Street
WHEN: Saturday, April 25th
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: Storytelling

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“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Scripted theater takes years to write and alter to create a production. Improvised theater has no script, there are multiple perspectives that work together without a script to tell a story that will never be told again. Only those special few who witness the story in all it’s glory.

This month learn to tell an unscripted story with your scene partners. Classes apply the techniques of ‘Give and Take’, listening, and teamwork.

WHERE: HiFi COOP, 2nd Floor, Ward Warehouse, 1050 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
WHEN: Every Tuesday in March
TIMES: 7:30pm
TICKETS: $10/class or $35 for the month
Classes are held every Tuesday from 7:30 to 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.

About The Instructor

Larissa DLG Nielsen is one of the most recognized improvisers in Hawaii. She was a founding member of IYFI (In Your Face Improv) and a member of house teams both at Laughtrack Theater Company and The Greenhouse. Larissa loves to share the magic of improv and taught the Laughtrack Theater Company’s Youth & Teen Improv program twice. Larissa has studied improvised theater under Second City master level trainer Jeff Griggs and Chicago Improv Festival Executive Producer Jonathan Pitts as well as the training programs with both of Hawaii’s other improv schools. Her talent and drive garnered her an invitation as one of 8 improvisers invited to an exclusive coaching class taught by Griggs. She has appeared as a performer at Hawaii’s Improvaganza Festival for 4 years, and coached 3 teams into the festival’s spotlight. Larissa also makes all of Think Fast’s videos!

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

Think Fast Improv Brew-Haha!

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Press Release:

 

Think Fast Improv Brew-Haha!

Ong King Arts Center

184 N.King Street

Sat. June 28th, 2014

8pm

$10 at the door, $8 presale online

Get ready to laugh with Think Fast! and friends!  Chinatown’s improv team Think Fast! will be hosting and performing a night of comedic good times at the “Improv Brew-Haha”!  Audience members will be treated to a show completely made-up and inspired by suggestions they give!

 

Every last Saturday of the month, Think Fast! welcomes all improvisers to pop in before the show and create one to two teams that very night!  Throughout the night, Think Fast! will also perform their favorite short form games, as well as their stylized long form piece for the evening.

 

Doors open at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8pm.  There will be one 10 minute intermission and a bar with a variety of beverages available.  Tickets are $10 at the door only at the Ong King Arts Center located on 184 N.King Street.  Street parking is available as well as at the Chinatown Municipal Parking Structures located all throughout Chinatown, notably on River Street and Nimitz Hwy for $3.

 

Think Fast: Brew-Haha Improv Show!

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Join Think Fast! for our final show blowout at Loading Zone’s Hotel St. location. Mr. Aaron Presents flagship team, Think Fast!, will be headlining the show with a brand new team made of very special guests! Come join Hawaii’s best improv team for a night of improvised comedy based entirely on your suggestions! Think Fast! and guests will perform the audiences favorite games in between sets!

The Loading Zone
47 N. Hotel Street
7:30pm Brew-tail hour, 8pm show begins
$8 online pre-sale tickets (www.MrAaronPresents.net)
$10 at the door.
18+

Doors and donation bar open at 7:30pm at the Loading Zone Arts located on the corner of Hotel and Smith in Chinatown, across from Lucky Belly above Amy’s Place.

For show information and questions visit www.ThinkFastImprov.com or call Aaron at (808) 728-7146

Think Fast Improv at Mars Comedy Club

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This week, Mars Comedy Club at Hawaiian Brian’s has a little twist! The headliner this week is improv comedy group THINK FAST! And warming you up for their hilarious show are Anthony Silano and AJ Nieves, and it’ll all be presided over by your host James Mane! After the feature show, Chad Wago unleashes the open mic zombies to pick at your brain!

Happy Hour begins at 7pm, with the Feature show at 7:30 and Open Mic Comedy Night at Hawaiian Brian’s EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!

Right after the comedy show, hang out for the OPEN MIC!
We are looking for the next great Hawaii Comedian
Join the Guys With Issues Comedy Podcast
in The Studio at Hawaiian Brian’s!!
Only $5 to get in and performers get in FREE

Want to give it a try or maybe know someone that does…
Come on down and sign up for classes or just give it a shot and see what happens.

Tons of drinks and validated parking. Show starts at 7:30 PM.
SEE YOU THERE!!

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

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!