Category Archives: Theater

A Fairy Tale in One Minute

Son, SuperPizzaBoy, has been participating in the City of Tulsa’s Clark Theater Yuth Improv Comedy classes for several years. He and his fellow comedians have come a long ways over the years.

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Improv is hard. The players have to work off of each other and think fast. There is no memorizing lines or anything as during a performance it goes where the audience and the cast take it.

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It has been great watching the kids grow up in the program.

We are so proud of our son. He gives it his all. The following is skit called “One Minute Fairy Tale” where he and a young lady had to act out a Fairy Tale in one minute, then thirty seconds, then 15 seconds, then 7.5 seconds. Then they had to do it in reverse.  They didn’t know which fairy tale until they were on stage because the audience shouts out the fairy tale they want to see. The kids did great.

We like to see SPB do well, but we enjoy that he is happy doing this even more.

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What is your Joy?

Teenage Improv Madness at Clark Theater

Saturday night the Yogi’s and NaNa ventured into midtown Tulsa to the Henthorne Community Center to see the Clark Theater’s Teen Laughing Matter Improv Show.

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It was all teenagers, led by adults, who have been working all Fall and Spring on their comedy improv skills. Everybody got to play in this fast paced show which went fast. This is SuperPizzaBoy’s second year in improv, his first in  the Improv group. He loves it and his mother and I are amazed about how much he comes out of his shell.

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SPB’s fellow Improvers are a very quick very personable bunch who are also a bunch of hams. Improv involves a lot of interaction with the audience who toss out suggestions for various things. Many of these things involve current events, pop culture, history and such. No video game references. It was amazing the breadth of these kids knowledge.

They have good teachers. The adult leaders of the group are demanding and but infinite patience as they whip their charges into shape.

We are big fans of Clark Theater and their leaders.