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Post by terrylondon79 on Oct 11, 2017 17:17:31 GMT
Anyone know anything about this? Advertised in programme as running at the arts theatre from december to jan. Cant see anything about it on arts or mischief website?
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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 11, 2017 19:02:33 GMT
The Mischief guys used to do Lights Camera Improv, where they improvised movies. It was very funny, like showstopper but with films. I wouldn't be surprised if they were reviving that format for a couple of months.
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 11, 2017 20:16:29 GMT
The Bank Robbery cast did a collective video interview with London Theatre last week (https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLondonTheatre/videos/1271058069693284/) & during it Mike Bodie mentions that Lights! Camera! Improvise! is being rebranded as Movie Nights, before saying that maybe he shouldn't have mentioned it yet. Oh dear, if they're doing a run rather than just occasional nights I'm going to be bankrupt & sleep-deprived trying to see as many shows as possible!
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Post by zahidf on Oct 16, 2017 11:07:33 GMT
On sale on Weds
13 December until 27 January.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Oct 16, 2017 11:33:41 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 16, 2017 12:34:19 GMT
I would dispute the article describing it as a brand new show, as the description is exactly like LCI except for having character names, but other than that it's nice to have it officially confirmed. Nice of them to start the run the day I get back from holiday ;-) ETA They have 3 shows a day most Saturdays. I'm going to be bankrupt & shattered! |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Oct 16, 2017 13:05:06 GMT
Ha ha. Following the link Dawnstar "liked" on Twitter, the tickets are coming up for sale today ... 2 shows on New Years Eve. Now, do I brave the West End on New Years Eve, or stay at home with boring telly (I've long given up on crowded pubs with p*ssed people). |
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 16, 2017 18:17:08 GMT
Ha ha. Following the link Dawnstar "liked" on Twitter, the tickets are coming up for sale today ... 2 shows on New Years Eve. Now, do I brave the West End on New Years Eve, or stay at home with boring telly (I've long given up on crowded pubs with p*ssed people). Which one? I "liked" about 8 announcement-related tweets! I've booked for the first & last shows. The rest will have to wait till I go & raid one of my savings accounts tomorrow, & I hope they don't sell out of good seats in the meantime. We should try to coincide a visit, after we were discussing LCI last month. I'm hoping to go every Saturday... |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 13, 2017 22:39:58 GMT
Dragging this thread back up, as tonight was the first show. Was anyone other than me (rather inevitably!) there? I'm biased but I really enjoyed it. The name, colour scheme & set may have changed but otherwise it's the same as Lights! Camera! Improvise!
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Post by mafraq3518 on Dec 14, 2017 9:06:48 GMT
Thanks for dragging it back up, we took the precaution of buying two sets of tickets, as we learned that with all MTC does it is helpful to see twice as it's hard to take it all in on the first pass. Very glad you enjoyed it and excited about going up to see it ourselves.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 14, 2017 13:44:29 GMT
Thanks for dragging it back up, we took the precaution of buying two sets of tickets, as we learned that with all MTC does it is helpful to see twice as it's hard to take it all in on the first pass. Very glad you enjoyed it and excited about going up to see it ourselves. I may be misinterpreting your comment & stating the obvious, but you do know that it's improvised & therefor you won't be seeing the same show twice? |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Dec 14, 2017 15:34:55 GMT
Killian Donnelly tweeted he was there last night ...
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Post by mafraq3518 on Dec 15, 2017 9:22:30 GMT
Thanks for dragging it back up, we took the precaution of buying two sets of tickets, as we learned that with all MTC does it is helpful to see twice as it's hard to take it all in on the first pass. Very glad you enjoyed it and excited about going up to see it ourselves. I may be misinterpreting your comment & stating the obvious, but you do know that it's improvised & therefor you won't be seeing the same show twice? Yes you have totally misinterpreted my comment and I do know it is improvised. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 15, 2017 21:43:46 GMT
^Apologies. I was just trying to be helpful.
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Post by mafraq3518 on Dec 16, 2017 9:49:48 GMT
^Apologies. I was just trying to be helpful. No problem, it's fine, I'm sure we will all enjoy the show. After Christmas Carol Goes Wrong of course !  |
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Post by freckles on Dec 16, 2017 12:53:35 GMT
Is Nancy not in this?
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 16, 2017 13:00:30 GMT
I see from Twitter that Bryony got injured in this last night. From the photos it looks like a damaged arm/wrist. I wonder whether they'll get someone else in to cover while she's off or if everyone else will just get no shows off now (they were due to be rotating 1 person off per day). ETA freckles Nancy's not supposed to be doing it but who knows what will happen now. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 22, 2017 23:50:13 GMT
Answering my own question, what happens now is that they borrowed Ruth Bratt (who does Showstopper among other improv shows) to cover while Charlie is on loan to Bank Robbery.
I also finally achieved a nearly-3-year ambition tonight & got to see Henry Lewis as Oscar & Jonathan in the main ensemble.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2017 11:51:33 GMT
Probably going to see this on the 6th at 9.15pm.
Can someone explain how they choose the theme, title, etc? Like, does everyone vote before the show starts? Or they just ask a couple of audience members and that's it?
I'm so excited! I love Mischief so much!
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 27, 2017 14:00:11 GMT
Probably going to see this on the 6th at 9.15pm. Can someone explain how they choose the theme, title, etc? Like, does everyone vote before the show starts? Or they just ask a couple of audience members and that's it? I'm so excited! I love Mischief so much! When asked, audience members call out suggestions for first the film genre. 3 or 4 suggestions are taken and the audience as a whole vote on the one they want by cheering/clapping. This is then repeated for the location and usually for the title, though sometimes if the first title suggested is popular then that might be taken unopposed. |
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Post by Steve on Dec 31, 2017 17:44:19 GMT
This was my last show of the year, last night, and I loved it. The movie improvised was "T Vet," a horror story about a Vet (Henry Shields) who inadvertently creates Dinosaurs out of people's household pets, in particular, a cat, Mitzi (Charlie Russell), who becomes a cat-dinosaur hybrid that goes on a killing rampage. The bulk of the action took place at a Cheese Factory, and the theme song, "Sexual Fondue," was performed twice by the ensemble, once as a cutaway from the action, and once as the credits rolled. In reverse order of merit, here are the top 5 comedy performers of the evening, in my opinion: (5) Henry Lewis: Normally, Lewis is my go-to-guy for the most laughs in any Mischief show (he's a peerless comedic performer, with an ability to engage in exuberant exaggeration, second to none), but as he was effectively the director of this movie night, who sat at the side of the stage coming up with ideas for the rest of the ensemble to act out, he never had free reign to go balls out. Still, his sarcastic commentary on the missteps of the main ensemble had me chuckling, as well as his insistence that Jonathan Sayer repeat a somewhat dangerous upside-down stunt backwards; Digression: At school, sometimes years get split according to three levels of ability: A, B and C streams. Sometimes, I look at comedic performers that way:- (a) A-stream comedians take a reality and exaggerate it into a hysterical bizarro dimension where people laugh before they say a word. A-stream comedians like Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carrey or Peter Sellers have a primal alchemical magic. Children laugh along with adults, without even understanding why they are laughing, which is why Mr Bean is such good family entertainment; (b) B-stream comedians commit to an absurd reality with such finesse, that their success at finding the real within the absurd, seduces. Sitcoms and radio comedies typically catch fire when absurd scripts are put over with conviction. Successful B stream comedians lure with reams of dazzling verbiage, like Jennifer Saunders or Billy Connolly. Children may not laugh, because they don't understand the words, but adults laugh like drains; (c) C-stream comedians can neither morph into something else, like A streamers, nor hold their truth within absurd seas, like B-streamers, but they get laughs anyway by being completely loud and shameless. (4) Harry Kershaw: was undoubtedly top of the C-stream last night. Far too stiff to be in the A stream, and lacking the nuance to be in the B stream, his triumphant shamelessness, in loudly and proudly leading the song "Sexual Fondue" generated serious laughter; (3) Jonathan Sayer: Typically a B-stream wordsmith, Jonathan Sayer veered sharply into A-stream territory last night when he played a man whose genetic makeup had been blended with that of a leech. Wriggling haplessly across the floor, attempting to escape a cat-dinosaur, Sayer's man-leech tragically still craved his wrist watch, perhaps his last connection to his long since forgotten humanity; (2) Henry Shields: Shields gave an astoundingly good performance of a Dr. Frankenstein style Vet, last night. Worthy of Cumberbatch's Frankenstein, Shields successfully rooted his performance in real emotional progression. His improvisation showed facility with genre, in that he understood each and every nuance of the slow degeneration of a well-meaning scientist into an irresponsible psychopath, but more importantly, he played the part with an affecting conviction, with hilarious dividends. Top of the B-stream! (1) Charlie Russell: The outstanding comic performer of the night was Charlie Russell, top of the A-stream. Not only did she transform into a cat, and subsequently a cat-dinosaur, with curved, lithe animal-like movements, like a committed B-Comedian, but on top of that, she overlayed the bizarro enthusiasm, exaggeration and energy of an A-stream comedian, so that everyone was laughing each and every time she did ANYTHING, whether that thing was intrinsically funny or not. Whether it was licking her own leg, as a cat, or prancing around like kangaroo velociraptor, complete with sly and deliberately delayed, sudden lizard-like attack movements, Russell fulfilled the brief of being utterly hysterically playful. And to boot, she even added a level of self-critical humanity to the strange proceedings, when as a newsreader, she insistently described the cat-dinosaur she herself was playing as "attractive." Twenty years ago, people really used to say (and believe) that "women can't be funny." Jo Brand has had to fight that prejudice every day of her life as a stand-up comic. Last night, Charlie Russell showed that sometimes a woman can be the funniest performer of all. 4 stars for some great laughs, and a thoroughly entertaining night! |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 31, 2017 18:26:41 GMT
Steve Oh, I was there last night too. I'm sorry I didn't know a fellow theatreboarder was there or we could have said hello (albeit not in the interval!). I loved T-Vet, one of my favourites, maybe the favourite, of the 12 MMNs I've seen so far (12 more to go). I'm so impressed by your analysis of the cast. Mine usually only reaches the shallows of "They were fabulous & I wish I could watch them forever". Which is why I'm sparing the board posts about each MMN I see. And I've had "Sexual Fondue" stuck in my head all day!
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Post by rumbledoll on Jan 1, 2018 0:58:36 GMT
Oh thanks Steve, I wish everyone who goes can report back so we'll know the range  I was at the matine on Dec 30 and we got a thriller with elements of a musical set in Scotland and with the fantastic title too - Sheamus Can't Swim ))) I'm still dying to know where did that come from? It followed the story of Old Jim, a tireless sercher of Loch Ness monster and his son Sheamus, who obvioudly can't swim. Old Jim finds his end by the two represetative of local authority who're tired of the legend and tourists. Included a romantic storyline as well and pretty spectacular wave-diving! I was in awe at how can one improvise for one hour and being so hilarious all the way through! My highlight was when 5 cats committed suicide one by one (a chain reaction unexpextedly iniciated by Dave Hearn) An absolute joy! Would go again in a hearbeat! If only I lived a bit closer than 2000 miles away... |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 1, 2018 21:12:27 GMT
rumbledoll I didn't think the title was that odd. Seamus (no h) is the Gaelic form of James so it's a reasonable name for a character in a Scottish setting, and juxtaposing a non-swimming character with a lake location is clever. I mean, I would never have come up with something like that myself because I don't have that sort of brain, but I can see how someone else could have. Yes, the cat mass suicide was one of my highlights too! Overall though I found it quite a dark show by Mischief standards. Not so much the number of deaths but the way they were done & the downbeat ending. Oh thanks Steve, I wish everyone who goes can report back so we'll know the range I've tweeted about all the MMNs I've seen so far but haven't posted about them on here. If you're interested in those I've seen already then my Twitter username is AuroraEstella. I guess I could post on here if people are interested but thought they wouldn't be & it'd just end up like the TCAABR thread where I've basically been conducting a monologue for months!
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Post by stuart on Jan 2, 2018 12:22:53 GMT
What’s the circle like in the Arts Theatre? Just nabbed a few of the GILT tickets for next weekend while I’m down for Hamilton but the choice was either Row E in the Circle or Row M in the Stalls, both red on the Monkey’s site. Went with the Circle in the end.
Are all of Mischief on each night? Seeing the core Mischief cast was one of our main reasons for booking.
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