The Magnet is hosting the Chicago Improv Festival College Improv Tournament on Saturday, November 19th at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm and the finals at 8pm.
With a tournament schedule that looks like Monday Night Football meets Whose Line Is It Anyway, CIF Productions has released the 2011-2012 College Improv Tournament schedule. New for this year’s tournament: There will be one regional per weekend, going from mid-October and until early February. Every regional final will be webcast live, and for free, on CIT’s website.
The winner of each round (plus one wild card ream) as decided by a panel of three judges (comprised of professional improvisers in NYC) will go on to compete in the CIT Big Apple Regional Finals at 8PM. The winner of that will be crowned the CIT Big Apple Regional Champion and will go on to compete in the CIT Nationals in Chicago (March 10, 2012).
Megawatt team, Dunk, recently made a trip to our friends at ImprovBoston. This is a short clip from their performance. Check it out!
It’s Friday the 13th! Confront your horror demons and come to the Magnet tonight at 9pm to see house team Chet Watkins improvise a horror film live on stage. SpooOoooOOooOky.
Deep Traffic Celebrates 1 Year
Deep Traffic is the Magnet Theater’s stand-up comedy show case hosted by Willy Appelman and Adam Lerman.
Come celebrate the birth of a show that has given more than any one year old baby could give. Monday May 16th at 8:30PM, Deep Traffic has an amazing lineup to help blow out the candles.
Kurt Metzger (Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Presents)
Ransom Family’s Federico Garduno’s was interviewed by the Examiner about his one man show, “Terrible, featuring the Opinions and Witticisms of Federico Garduno”.
Perhaps Garduño’s greatest strengths, as a person and as a performer, are his easygoing nature and wry observations. He didn’t step on a stage until he was 23, but he recalls thinking he was funny as a kid, though not a clown for the whole class. “I liked to find one person to tell jokes to.”
i’m on an improv team called Dunk. we perform most wednesdays at the magnet theater as part of megawatt. it’s a lot of fun. i try to be shirtless most times.
Featured Class: Tell Me a Story…
Storytelling Level 1 w/ Adam Wade.
Learn how to take personal experiences from your life and create stories that are universal and identifiable for an audience - you’ll be surprised at how engaging your personal stories can be! In this class, you will learn the basic elements of telling a narrative story, how to take a crowd by surprise and make them care, how to be real and truthful on stage, and how to discover and communicate the real meaning behind your experience. Classes will include verbal and written exercises, examples of performances from some of the finest storytellers, and various techniques and approaches to prepare yourself for a performance of your story. What you’ll get out of the class: at least one polished, six-to-eight minute story, which could be the beginning of a one-person show, and the fundamentals needed to develop future stories. The class concludes with a graduation performance where you will perform your personal story in front of an audience.
In the survival of the fittest, these improvisers have a proven track record of procreation— some with each other. With this shared parental bond the cast will tell stories and improvise scenes based on your suggestion, which will hopefully have nothing to do with sperm or uteruses. This show will make you think twice before mating.
Make reservations! Shows are this Friday the 8th and also Friday April 22nd.
4 Years of 4Track. Saturday April 2nd at 9:30PM will be the 4 year anniversary show of 4Track. To celebrate the group will be having special shows every Saturday all month long. Special shows, with special guests and special surprises for you the audience.
One of Magnet Theater’s signature shows, 4TRACK is improv comedy with a jolt. It’s 40 minutes of non-stop fun. This show is wild, raucous and whiplash hilarious. From a single suggestion, 4TRACK delivers huge characters, high stakes, bold risks and big energy to make a show that is daring, truthful, brutal and funny. *A TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITIC’S PICK*
Magnet is an improvisational comedy theater and improv school in New York City. Located a few blocks below Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Magnet offers audiences great comedy shows consistently recommended by critics, tourists, locals, comedy snobs, and people looking for a great cheap date. Plus, there's beer and wine.
Founded in 2005 by veteran improv instructors from Chicago, and led by Armando Diaz, Magnet's mission is to teach the skills necessary to do original, honest, and instantly brilliant comedy. Our training program has been thoughtfully crafted so novices and veterans alike will build and strengthen their skills from class to class, and level to level.
