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4/15/2013

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Improv Trick often uses the news for a jumping off point for our scenes. This month, we've been MAKING the news!

Bill Chott won the INNY award for Best Improv Coach last year and he's being nominated again! Be sure to vote by clicking HERE.

Besides appearing this month on Disney's Kickin' It, he appeared on CBS radio's Overnight America with Jon Grayson. Click the link to listen in.

But that's not all...Improv Trick was featured in Pasadena Weekly for our shows and classes in Pasadena. Give it a read. Be sure to check out a free class today, or recommend one to a friend.




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Improv Casting Notice

4/14/2013

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Please let Barbara know that you found out about this casting opportunity through Improv Trick and mention Bill Chott. Reminder to apply to , and not Improv Trick.

Newmooncasting@gmail.com

CASTING NOTICE:

3 Female Students Being Cast
For Cable Television Project about College Life.
Must have a background in Improv.

We are casting three female college students attending school in Los Angeles, as the leads on a
television reality demo.

Each student needs to be highly Opinionated and Outspoken. They each need to be the type of person
who likes to give advice to their friends. Maybe even a little judgmental at times, as they will be asked to
state their opinions on various issues!

Ideally:
*You have taken Improv classes or participate in an Improv group
*Are between the ages of 19 to 23 years-old
*You will still be attending college next year in Los Angeles. Please don’t contact us if you have already
graduated.
*Are the person who always tells friends what is on your mind

To respond to this casting notice, please write to Barbara and Geri, New Moon Casting at
Newmooncasting@gmail.com

Please include the following in your response:

Send a photo or two of yourself

And tell us the following:
1) Your age and which school you are attending
2) What you are studying in school and the career you want to pursue
3) Whether you have a background in Improv or acting
4) Whether you would be available after your finals through June or July for filming in Los Angeles
5) Whether you will be attending school next year in Los Angeles
6) A couple sentences with a sample of the best advice you have ever given a friend

There will be pay if you become part of the demo.

Please Reply By May 1st or earlier. Auditions are tentatively scheduled for May 5th.

Your time commitment if selected following your audition would be approximately 1 prep day
and 1 to 2 days of filming.

NEW MOON Casting

Newmooncasting@gmail.com
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The Winters of our Discontent 

4/12/2013

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Heaven just got a LOT funnier! I just learned that Jonathon Winters passed away about ten minutes ago, and I felt moved to write my own eulogy. When i was a kid, I was amazed by the work of Jonathan Winters. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wouldn't say "an astronaut" or "a fireman" I knew that I wanted to be Jonathan Winters.

He would improvise monologues and sound effects and hop effortlessly from character to character. I never saw anyone on TV who could do what he did. He was one of my comedy idols and the chief reason that I wanted to start improvising. Later in life, I would find out that there were other people in the world who could improvise, and I made it my goal to learn how, so I could be like them. And more importantly, so I could be like him.

I was thrilled that he and Robin Williams were able to work together on Mork and Mindy, but I always wished I could have been in the studio audience to see what sort of instantly happened when the cameras weren't rolling and they could do whatever they wanted.

Since then I've met and worked with some of the best improvisers on the planet, but my biggest regret is that I never had the chance to see him live and in person and say, "Thanks for giving a chubby kid who could make sound effects and do characters a role model."

"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York," -- William Shakespeare - Richard III

by Bill Chott

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