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Come see Sacred
Fools' Improv/Sketch comedy group FOOL
The 2nd, 3rd & 4th Friday
Night
of each
Mainstage Show!
Don't know when that is?
Check the Calendar to find out for sure!
Featuring
sketch and improv scenes!
FOOL is:
Chris Connor - Tara Beth Conolly - Henry
Dittman - Scott Leggett
Gerald McClanahan - Tamara Pennington - Weston Taussig and Marty Yu
For only
three dollars,
the only question you have to ask is,
"What am I going to do
with all the money I save?"
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REVIEWS! |
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LA WEEKLY
Director Benjamin Davis’ series of
mostly improvised sketches is fun, inventive and charmingly unpolished. The
first sketch, "Lickety Split," was a fresh riff on the game-show gag,
where the contestants racked up points by delivering any ol’ answer as long as
they belted it out. Actors Gerald McClanahan (who wrote the majority of the
planned skits), Chris Connor, Noelle Potvin, Marty Yu, Guy Stevenson and Weston
Taussig were at times amazingly spontaneous. Not only does Fool Samples take
audience suggestions, one particularly brutal exercise was overseen by
Stevenson, who would call out "switch" when he didn’t like the
direction the improvistes were taking, forcing them to pick a new tack on the
spot — as if improv isn’t nerve-wracking enough. The show is rounded out by
the delightfully absurd "Board Room," in which Stevenson reams all his
incompetent employees in what is the kookiest corporation ever. One and a half
thumbs up.
- Andrew Lentz
©2000 LA WEEKLY
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