Thinking about submitting a late night show idea to the Del Close Marathon (http://www.delclosemarathon.com/dcm14/) in New York? Great! Why not submit to DCM, then email themanifestoshow@gmail.com with your idea too. With any luck, you might be able to do that nutty late night show twice!The Manifesto Show is putting together a night of LA’s best DCM-style late night shows. If you’ve been to DCM in New York before, you know the drill: 15-minute concept shows, high in energy and always a raucous good time. The late night show experience is quintessential to the Del Close Marathon and we’d love to celebrate that spirit in Los Angeles on Friday, May 25th, for one night only.So, submit your late night show idea to DCM, then email The Manifesto Show with the same pitch. We’ll pick the best / craziest / worst / best / besterest of the best to put up in one off-the-wall, action-packed night at the ArtWorks Theater on Santa Monica Blvd.To submit:Email: themanifestoshow@gmail.com
Subject: DCM Late-Night Show – (show name)
Body: (a brief description of the show, the number of players involved and the best email contact)
Last call for DCM submissions is April 2nd, so get those pitches in! The Manifesto Show will be accepting submissions through the middle of April but still, it never hurts to be early.
Yours in comedy,
Comrades
COMRADES have overruled themselves and declared that the LOTTERY SLOT is OPEN TO ANY NUMBER OF TEAMS so all you two, three, five, ten and twenty person teams out there waiting for time to play, come out to THE MANIFESTO SHOW, drop your name in the hat and enjoy the first hour of improv comedy with a chance of performing in the 9pm hour!
And if you don’t grab the slot this week, come back next week and the next week and the next week and the next week, we ENCOURAGE THAT!
IMPROV FOR THE PEOPLE!!!
COME OUT AND BE PART OF THE REVOLUTION!
THE MANIFESTO SHOW: OPENING SHOW & CELEBRATION is TONIGHT and your TEAM COULD BE THE FIRST LOTTERY TEAM to play the show.
Any present team of 4 or more players can drop their name in the lottery bucket* throughout the 8pm hour in order to have the chance to play in the 9pm hour and be part of GRAND SHOW that involves these wonderful host teams:
The Imaginary Friends - The 11th Hour
TAB - Crashbar
Thunderstruck - Tuesday Night Thunder
Shakedown - Room 101
and
CONVOY!
MUCH LOVE and REVOLT,
COMRADES (Mark David Christenson, Farley Elliott & Jen Krueger)
*the lottery slot will be a regular weekly occurring open slot. So if you don’t get chosen this week, come back and try again!
THE MANIFESTO SHOW KICKS OFF FEBRUARY 24TH!!!
JOIN US IN A CELEBRATION OF IMPROV FOR THE PEOPLE!
In appreciation of all the other great indie improv shows around town, The Manifesto Show is bringing out every host team for a big ol’ LA improv love fest. Convoy’s coming, too!
8pm
TAB - Crashbar
Imaginary Friends - The 11th Hour
Convoy - UCB
9pm
Comrades - The Manifesto Show
***Team Lottery slot - Bring three or more friends and throw your name in the pot during the 8pm hour. At 9 we’ll pull a winner, give them time to warm up, then throw them on stage in the middle of the 9pm hour.
Thunderstruck - TNT
10pm
Shakedown - ROOM 101
10:30pm
JAM and After party Celebration!!!
We are located at:
Artworks Theatre, Studio A
6659 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Please promote the show! And remember, there’s a team lottery AND a jam every night, so everyone in the audience will have a chance to play.
We are improv for the people so admission is free, but we urge performers and audience alike to throw a few rubles in the donation bucket. There will also be beer and water available with donation.
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Comrades: Mark David Christenson, Farley Elliott & Jen Krueger.
Another great poster by James Mulholland! Follow his improv poster tumblr for all the cool designs he does, then come to this show tomorrow night!
Farley and Jen taught me about the Oxford Comma therefore I had to post this.
Comrades is bringing a revolution of laughs to the 11th Hour show this week. Be there or be a dirty capitalist!
COMRADES at Flapper’s Yoo Hoo Room 04/16/11
TONIGHT!!! 8PM COMMUNIST INVASION OF ROOM 101
FREE SHOW yet as a good communist it is best to donate to the community pool and keep the show running week after week. Beer and Wine available for donation.
Come Out and Enjoy the show! The entire night is a great line up.
