IMPRODOME 2/24/06 Friday Night

Fornicating improv virgins; no fucking improv virgins, no, no, no, wrong again; rapeing improv virgins; how wrong to christen a valient, brave soul emulating the miasmic vision for the first time. Screams of ecstasy, no, no , screams of derision, no, no, no, screams of pain, ooooh yah, screams of palacial forgiveness: maybe. Hunger for food, not really, hunger for love, sometimes, hunger for acceptance yow zah. Gravy of soul pouring forth, no that's wrong -- gushing effervescence on potatoes, no, no, no, on rice, wrong, on spaghetti, you're kidding, on soul -- right. Special events collide with banter enchanting, spectating, laughing, crying, sighing, and flying. Flying forth through the night on wings lifted by dreams and fantasy and imagination: IMPRODOME. MOTEL FACE. "I don't think that's something to get really scared about." "I do dumb things." "Why would I lie about that." "You're not telling me about something here." "I've worn a lot of condoms in my life." "For a moment I was hopeful." "I thought you were saying he is the father of the baby." THREE GUYS WEARING KACKI PANTS AND A GUY WEARING JEANS."You're going to love this." "And there I was." "What a bizarre day it turned out to be." "Well the company is going under, here's the books." THE FIST KISSES. "This is boy talk." "Turn your frown upside down." "Mama's diarys ain't for read'in." "Enough with that fancy talk." "All you got to do is unlock it." ABOOBABLE. "I haven't been able to stop." "They were talking about the drugs or the sex." "Is that what you remembered?" FAT BOTTOM GIRLS. "I do not want a crying girl to touch my hair." "I don't care what it takes." TWO TOY JOISEYS. "You really need to get rid of that rotton husband of yours." "I chose him, I married him." "The bitches are coming." "If you're half as good as your sister, that's good enough for me." "All I got in my pouch is a two dollar bill and a metrocard." ELEVEN. "How delightfully mad." "I slayed a demon." "Put your penis up." "First days are hard, That's OK." RUNN'IN ON EMPTY. My team. GET DOWN SYNDROME. "I couldn't go through a festival." "I can still feel he's here." "I got a pain in my heart." "We didn't want you to be ordinary." "This is the hand I'm supposed to love with." WHITES OF THEIR EYES. "I lost it back in the war." "Someones been lieing to you." "I've seen sex with women." "I learned that in the army, the hard way." "You don't expect us to work." "I'll race you to the top of Surabachi, OK." "I smelled it before." "I knew you weren't blind." "I know it's what you guys drink."

My Musical Improv Graduation Show

My Musical Improv Graduation Show is Sunday March 5th at 4:00 PM: UCB theater, 307 W. 26th St. (212) 366-9176, ucbtheatre.com. Cost is $5:00.

ECHO at the Magnet Theater Friday nights

Improvised scenes, improvised choreography, music, costumes, backround: innovative. Check it out: it is new, different, and interesting.

IMPRODOME 2/17/06

Retro repeat, poetic replay. Just another way to say a story gloriously reposed in cacoon of jealous juxtaposition of serenity. Voo Doo sex goddesses and g-ds. Fido loss, remembered in context of something bad. Just microcosm of us all: muttering homeless man. He could be a prophet trying to wake up the early morning world. Love birds abound, chirps a salve for pain. Sing your song little birdie boos. Seeking truth through learning annex? Eat your poison brownie and die! WHITES OF THEIR EYES. "You don't want to forget her." "Yes, it's about sex." "Our affair meant nothing." "You have to face your demon." "Two weekends in a row with plans." DOUBLE DIPPERS. "I did not like the dog." "I was trying to be a good sister." "I don't understand why I'm wrong." "You can't have sex with him before the wedding." FAT BOTTOM GIRLS. "I didn't drag my chair from home, not to read it." "You should never pay for it, not a guy like you. " "I got a cunt on me and I'm drunk." "I'm so happy your friend is still alive." "What, do you want to be my friend too?" "I did something really bad." "No offense honey, you make me creepy." MOTEL FACE. "I'm trying to get your attention." "Even the frigg'in dweeb knows our life story." "Is this because I didn't have sex with you last night?" "You were nothing before you met me." "I feel like I'm odd man out here." THE FIST KISSES. "Wake up world." "This is my heart, don't let it get in your mind." "We thought this was going to be a good thing for you." "So you understand how miserable pain can be?" "I don't want to be a dick." "I think we lost focus." ELEVENISH. "I learned to think on my feet." "You seem pretty stiff today." "I find that when we talk you get overspecific." "I'm a police officer with a great intuition." URBAN BAR-B-QUE. Ron, Verlon and Me. GRAVE DIGGERS. "I don't know what I'm going to do with out you." "More of my eggs got wasted today." "Let by gones be bygones. " "It makes us as wrong as they were." "If it was a man, I'd almost feel bad." "I only loved you when you were five." "I guess I just missed my dad."

IMPRODOME Wednesday 2/15/06

Cornacopia of explosions derived ostensibly with prejudice. Feeling kaleidoscopes perseverence in dark places of relief. Omnipresent chairs parading across stage, trumpeting relievable disbelief. Meat ball heroes cut with a knife, bringing to the world indignant strife. Play sensibly, or don't play at all. Misunderstanding can lead to a fall. Foreigners, vagrants, mounties, soldiers; can choice of characters be only molders? Ha Ha Ha this is silly. I'm writing words willy nilly. Flow of consciousness, isn't that what it's about? Get on stage and flout: ability, mind, words, that bind. Do it without prejudice or hate. Be part of life: celebrate. SIDE CAR. "You would love it like you love me." "This isn't about pajamas at work day." "You can't dress it up in a suit and make it any different." "You don't need to tell me who you are." "I admire your dreams." "I'll make trouble for you dude, if you don't back off." THE UPSET TRIANGLE. "You tried to get on my shit man." "He violated my personal space." "Will you accept me for who I am?" "I'm glad we finally met." "Do you like walking on the beach at night?" "Fuck you, I love you." "You say all the right things." THE GONERS. "I'm knocking off early today." "I'm going to buy a new truck." "What about the future you build for yourself?" "Got to believe in something." "You make everything about you." "We don't want to reveal our dumbness." "These are first class chicks ... we're used to like, coach." "I got a gun in case there are problems." "You look different since the accident." LEVEL ONE. " I think she likes it." "I never met an elephant so jealous." "The huckle buck, I remember that." "I admit it daddy, I love this man." "Your Father is the only man you need to have in your life." "I like you as my daughter." "Now I love you baby, now I love you." THE THREEE DDD BEARD. "I am not a woman, I am a man." "I am a meatball hero." "You've not been eating properly." "Don't add any lines to the scene." "I see I've been replaced." "Welcome to the language institute." "I don't think that's historically accurate." " It represents the next on coming plague." RUSHED SPIRITS. Ron, Sebastian and Me. JOE SCHMOES. "The knives are symbols of something between us." "Oh my G-d, he proposed." "What a relief, not to be part of that club." "You're still part of the singleness club." "What ever you're doing is wierding me out." "I think you have great breasts."

IMPRODOME 2/10/06

Subterfuge vaults, hidden away. Everyone trying to have a nice day. Drunken carousing makes life not a bore. Sometimes it can be honky dorey to be with a whore. You think I am being literal, I'm really not. I'm writing this in wrote like a metaphysical robot. Diana would like an Ernie pill everyday. It's one thoughtful way to make a nice way. Bad choices, good choices, it's all in the game, without mistakes, we'd all be the same. Second chance starts now, this is the place -- it's about doing good stuff, not being in a race. So tell me again, the end of the scene is, when?Words that are said, words that are meant, it's all heaven sent. Cookies in the morning, bowling balls at night, let's go outside and fly a kite. You fucking alcoholics. JIZZ SQUIBBS. "Obviously, I made a bad choice for my first hold up." "We're married to our work." "I want my job back." CONFLICT OF INTEREST. "Music is the food of life." "Remember when Mom left and you said you would do anything to make me happy." "A Scandanavian is someone who expresses themselves through passive aggression." "I was here first, so shut up." "You're at the top of your game." "I think it's time for another bottle of whiskey." ELEVENISH. "I appreciate you guys painting my house." "People know my name, it's kind of nice." "I like working with her, she makes me look smart." "Tell her you like her." "Give her eye contact." "Keep your cool Bro." "Try and explain that to the cops." "We're living the dream." FAT BOTTOM GIRLS. "So where's my hot girlfriend, and my totally hotfriend." "Look at what you made me do." "Second chance starts now." "I was trying to make you win by spurring you on." WHITES OF THEIR EYES. "Is this going to work now?" "It's not bullet proof." "Polar bear is not the strongest land animal." "He knows what he's doing, he does it for a living." "We need to move to the basement, they're migrating." URBAN BAR B-QUE. My group. STUBBLE. "Gratitude is the best attitude." "I always told my mother I should have married a richer man." "What's that lofty aroma I smell?" "It was only that one time." "There are words that are said, and words that are meant." THE UPSET TRIANGLE. "The proms coming up." "Got a date?" "I got you a lady, shes a mathlete." "The Twig has legs and a mouth to match." "I haven't heard about small bowling, in thirty years." "Your lonliness just destroys everything." WHATEVER. "Sometimes your standards are ridiculously high." "I think you should get on a dating service." "It eminates off me, like the wreak of a undeodorized whore." "You smell of hotness and desperation, and street. " "The drunker you two get, the better your date is going to be."

IMPRODOME Wednesday 2/8/06

Substance, character, point of view -- does this all sound like something new? Yang Miller smiles and hosts. Do you think he's giving us the most? Preambulatory devils achieved in light. All the scenes were good none of them did bite. Darkness ascends, city is dead. At the PIT there is activity, no ones butt is made of lead. Train of enlightenment choo choo's ahead. Most on New York is sleeping in bed. Do you think this is silly? I don't know -- but you're reading it so lets go. Onward and upward, full speed ahead. I think that's what I heard, everyone said. THE MAYORS. "Let me just finish this dream." "We dated the same guy." "Were you guys drinking? I was sucking di..." "Dad I'm pregnant, do I have to drop out of High School?" "You're the one from the Weichart commercial." "The ink is drying, you want to get it when it's wet." HIGH QUALITY PATIENCE. "I can't believe you're getting married tomorrow; to a girl." "Fifth grade changes people." "You've got to be able to focus on what's in front of you in order to move forward." "I feel a little disappointed, I got to admit." ELEVEN. "You seem really popular already." "I guess you don't understand boundaries." "What are you digging for with your sweaty man body?" "It's been awhile since I've been raped." LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. "Jack, I'm sorry these people flaked out." "The three of us can have a little fun." "He doesn't seem like the guy we grew up with." "No party is a party without two beers." "We can save the child." "They're all dead in there now." MONO SYLOBIC WOMBATS. " I want to address your problem." "Everything he says is a G-d damn lie." "He's going to ruin my career." OLD MASTER PAINTERS. My group. THREE-D BEARD. "On screen Leota fucks like a bandit. " " I felt a chill up my spine, it's been three years." "Pick another one fuck ball." "I'm from child services, and you've been a terrible father." CONFLICT OF INTEREST. "You've got to make a speech in five minutes." "I had a quick last half mile there." "You're going to pay for this in bed." "My style, that makes the studio run." POSITIVELY TALL OF US. "I didn't know he was the owner." "So dudes, which one of us is going to go on the date tonight?" "Anybody know her name?" "All I really heard is you screaming in pain." "I got a question for the devil." BUBBLEICOUS. "Maybe tonight after dininer, we can see my parents." "You popped a boner in math class, it's OK." "I kind of have a problem with you two." " I don't like disco, I never have." "I have trouble telling people how I really feel." SIDE CAR. "Shit dude, I got a girl waiting." "Come to my chambre." "It's kind of a sexy way to read a book." "Your asshole attitude in my chamber of secrets."

ELNA BAKER revisited (2/7/06 Tuesday night)

I went to the Peoples Improv Theater, last night. I enjoyed PIT Bosses. These are one person shows which are done as a result of Jen Nails' class. The performers were awsome; they told great stories about themselves. After the show I was walking down the stairs on my way out; Elna walked up the stairs, and said: "See my show". I told her I had already seen it (see my blog November 27, 2005). She told me: "It is different now". So I stayed, and here is my commentary: Pretty ... pretty ... pretty ... witty ... witty ... witty... gritty ... gritty ... gritty. If only she could sing -- that is what I thought. If only she could sing -- like a sparrow in spring. Like Chinese food at Mings. Like the little bell that goes ding a ling a ling -- but maybe she can -- she just doesn't talk about it -- but we know she can kiss -- as far as she goes with sweet romantic idealism permeated with innuendo of New York street reality -- sweet street reality: Elna style. Some quotes from her show: "So that's your personal trainer." Footloose. "I worked out for an hour in the air gym." "I love living in New York, because it's a grid of possibilities." "My apartment is furnished with things I found on the street." "I moved to New York when I was 18." "I'm a Mormon." A warning from her Mother: "What would you do if a lesbian tried to make out with you?" "This man squats, pulls down his pants and poops." "We were pressed against the glass." Elna crashed a 7-11 convention: "I proposed a toast." "I come from a really loving family." "One summer we went to 25 countries." "I love how my parents love each other." "I make a fool of myself, a lot with boys." "He broke up with me two hours later." "Kissing is really wonderful." "I have faith for a reason, and I don't have sex for a reason." "Now, Rusty and I are pen pals." "Why don't you come out to my Ranch, tomorrow." "That's what happens when you start talking to strangers." "You can meet a person that has everthing you wanted." "They got married." "I drooled all down Bobs' shoulder."

I MC'd Saturday Night

My old running club asked me to MC their awards banquet. To see photos, go to: rvrr.org, click on photos, and then: Banquet 2006.

MY MUSICAL IMPROV FANTASY

Musical Improv is a different game: Improv with songs, heightened emotion, dancing. Musical Improv is not just focused on comedy. We see the full panoplay of emotion; sometimes we cry. I am currently taking a Musical Improv Class at UCB. This class is taught by my musical improv fantasy: Eliza Skinner. When she performs, sometimes she is good and sometimes she is unbelievalby awsome. Her group " I Eat Pandas " is currently performing at the theater Under St. Marks, on Monday nights at 8 PM. I made an offer to Yang and Mark, and it is open to anyone I know: If you would like to see "I Eat Pandas" with me, I will buy dinner. Ticket for the show is eight dollars. This Monday, 2/6, I have other plans. I plan to be there on the few Mondays after that -- let me know if you are interested: stephenkornstein@aol.com.

IMPRODOME 2/1/06

2/2/06, 1:45 AM, early Thursday morning, on the train. The train is sitting here -- they are single tracking tonight. There are only two tracks from Newark through the tunnel into NYC; one track for each direction. Sometimes they do track work or there is a problem with one of the two tracks, so they single track: Use one track for both directions. This is a metaphor for Improdome, tonight. Sthick is an important entertainment medium. Improdome tonight included a lot of sthick: characters, accents, etc. These things are devices that can be used to tell a story. These things can be fun to watch, and can thus become the story. If we make this the whole package, then we short change ourselves, and the audiance. After all, the story is what theater is all about. If we get caught up with sthick, we forget the story. So, back to writing 101, or Improv I (same thing, really) : Developing characters and their back story is fundamental; this is the foundation; we build from there. If there is no base to build from, then there is nothing: we are just single tracking.