The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival 2011 is just about here. That time of year when CRUMBS teams up with the local heroes of Winnipeg improv and we invite fabulous improv players from all over to come to our home town and show them our prairie hospitality.
CRUMBS have been trying to get down to Atlanta for years and years. The company down there who kicks-ass at improv is Dad's Garage and we first ran into them at Edmonton's Improvaganza Improv Festival. Well, Dad's Garage runs their own Improv Festival and Theatresports tournament called The World Domination and this year we finally got our asses down there... We were not disappointed.
The tournament is a theatresports styled competition and anyone who knows what that means knows what is at stake, anyone who doesn't know what that means... It is a pretty big deal. So CRUMBS went down into the hot/sticky/muggy world that is the southern USA and did what we do best (we also did some improv). The last night of the Tournament was the finals and it was between a group from New York City (4Track) and CRUMBS (from little old Winnipeg). When the dust settled and the audience had finished losing their heads from hilarity and the judges had finally tabulated their scores... CRUMBS found themselves in 2nd place and 4Track walked away with the crown. Congratulations to 4Track for their first ever International title (This was CRUMBS first finalist showing since 2008 in Vancouver's International Tournament).
4Track are so funny and down to earth. Look here is a video to prove the funny.
We of course also played with the amazing folks down at Dad's Garage, some of the players we hadn't seen in years. It was great to be there and see their home.
Other highlights? Well, let me see here:
-My very first Mint Julep, which is a tasty concoction of bourbon, sugar, mint and ice.
-Sweet Tea Vodka, which is just soooooo tasty (and dangerous).
-Whirlyball, which is a game played with bumper cars...
-Veggie Corn Dogs, which I have not had in a decade (corn dogs I mean).
CRUMBS goes to Atlanta for the first time ever. We have been trying to get down to see our friends in Dad's Garage for years and it finally happened. Dad's Garage is the name of a theatre down in Georgia that does some wicked-ass improv for those that don't know and wondered what I was talking about when I mentioned Dad's Garage and thought I was really into my fathers mechanic's shop which happened to be in the southern United States.
I am looking forward to:
Peaches
Coca-Cola
It being hot I have no idea who or what this actually is, I suppose it is a TV show about weird people doing weird things in a city known as Hotlanta?
CRUMBS is going down to compete in the World Domination Improv Festival. We will be down there with such improv super acts as:
The Teams:
Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton, Alberta) CRUMBS (Winnipeg, wait... Hey, that's us.) 4Track (New York City) Skin & Lungs (Vancouver & Regina) Pete and Pat (Los Angeles & Vancouver)
This is the song that will be stuck in my head the whole time I am there:
This is the song that will be stuck in my head on the flight home:
What really helped was that our good buddy Kevy is now the Artistic Director of the theatre, not that we didn't have good buddies already in Atlanta, it just translated into CRUMBS actually getting there. We will no doubt love our time down there, we have been playing with these folks for years and look forward to seeing what their home turf is like. We have heard all the legends and stories, now for the reality.
So this is Matt from Atlanta's Dad'a Garage. He just happened to be in Berlin when we did the Berlin International Impro Festival, and we just happened to be doing a little out doors improv concept show, and he just happens to be really cool so I just happened to film him doing this.
