Day 5: 5:30 p.m. Time Slot

Show: Improv A-Go-Go: Death Match
Die Roll: 18
Venue: Brave New Workshop
Company: Ferrari McSpeedy v. The Impossibles

So, Five Man Job submitted this show to the Fringe, and they do a show by this title ("Improv A-Go-Go," not "Death Match") weekly on Sundays at the Brave New Workshop. However! This is not the same as that weekly show that only costs a buck. This is a tournament of improv champions, as it were. The installment that I saw today starred Ferrari McSpeedy and The Impossibles (a.k.a the guys from "Look Ma, No Pants.") The winners of this round moved on to the finals against a group the name of which I didn't catch.

Anyway, as this was a mano-a-mano match up between the two groups, they each did a single set. Ferrari McSpeedy doing an intriguing montage format that they dubbed with the name "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." The Impossibles did a format based on the Harold (a standard long form improv structure taught at the BNW and Second City). They omitted the standard "games" from in between the sets. Also, The Impossibles called out for audience input throughout their scenes. Ferrari McSpeedy capped each scene with a funky running sequence that always had the same words, "Fighting Danger! Fighting Crime!"

Again, anyway... The whole thing was well executed, but Ferrari McSpeedy was more on top of their game at this particular show.

Side things:

• I sat with Allison Werthmann, who is a top-notch improv gal herself. I recommend catching her show, if you can. It has an ungodly-long title: Behind the True Intimate Portrait of the Driven Divas of Comedy -- Unplugged (The Day the Laughter Died)
  
• The girl (woman, now) who I hired to be the assistant box office manager back when I was at the Brave New Workshop is still there, and I think that she's the Box Office Manager now. Her name is Alexis, and other than the owners, she must be the longest tenured person on staff now.