Topic: Improv
Strong follow-on to Preview Night #1 (see website for details at www.acmecomedy.com). We saw Thorne Dupree (Brian Lohmann) challenge Aubrey Fessenden Fitzpiglet (Kristen Trucksess) to "finish this sentence" Dark green.... Elves - which wasn't quite the sign of the connection to the "lost race," but it was interesting nonetheless. Musette (Tracy Burns) has brought the entire ensemble into a new comfort zone of physically working in very close proximity to each other, which has ramped up the perceived tension quite a bit from the traditional show format. Good attention paid to what was going on elsewhere on-stage, though an interesting subtle scene where Leticia Norburton (Sue Peahl) was hiding behind a counter with her vast piles of raven locks showing seemed to get bypassed during the intrepid down-stage discussion between Gretchen Hasselhoff (Porter Kelly) and Lester Coldwater (Ethan Karson), so eventually a few minutes passed and she glided off stage left and re-appeared to end the scene. An odd moment occurred when Thorne entered a scene with Brother Tobias (Chris MacKenzie) and Musette and Francisco (Edmund O'Brien) at the graveyard because too many players were active at once and it took a few moments to get the scene focused on a specific conversation pair. A couple of the characters lost scene focus and gave each other that "well, who's going next?" look we're familiar with in classwork.