No Shame Theatre Archives (2011)

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Our first No Shame of 2011!! No Shame Theatre is an open mic for the performing arts. Anything goes, so long as your piece clocks in at under 5 minutes and is an original work. Expect a strong line up this week, as SVT's WPA going on this weekend. Gnap! will have a couple of pieces from 69 Love Scenes that we will have workshopped this week, and more to boot. Hope to see you there.

No Shame Theatre is an open mic for the performing arts. Anything goes, so long as your piece clocks in at under 5 minutes and is an original work.

We're moving toward ensuring that we have awesome acts each time out, so we're proud to announce some curated portions of the show in advance!!

Elizabeth Doss performing "missing tap shoe'
Kelli Bland performing Aria for the Dreaming
Amelia Gray reading a piece of experimental fiction
The cast of Gnap! Theater Projects doing pieces from the upcoming 69 Love Scenes

and The Dukes of Bedside Manor performing an improvised homage/recap of the entire evening!

AND we're excited to announce that admission to No Shame Theatre is now COMPLETELY FREE for one all. Tell your friends!!

Here is a quick summary of all the pieces at No Shame. Feel free to discuss. Last night's show was a journey in the best way possible.

1. Mcguffee - Number Two is the New Number One
Mcguffee started off by giving out ten year anniversary cupcakes. He then kindly offered ten titles for pieces to be performed at future No Shame dedicated the title "tragically white" to Bryan Roberts

2.Kerri Lendo - You can bake it later
I danced around and made a cake with a lot of absurdities mixed in.

3. Ralph Hardesty - boring ol stand up
A stand up set that referenced basketball shorts and Pedro from the Real World San Francisco. Good times had by all

4. Lynette LaMonica - as myself
More funny stand up/stories. Lynnette talked about getting an offer for a movie roll as "once pretty but now tired and old woman"

5. Your Terrific Neighbors - 2 Bostonians on a break
Your Terrific Neighbors are always funny. Your Terrific Neighbors taking shots during their sketch still very funny.

6. Derek McAlister - Untitled
This one didn't need a title. This one will be hard to capture in words. It was awesome. Derek had a mix of songs he slowly stripped to and made his pecks dance on beat followed by the grand finale of a hand stand in his underwear while his butt cheeks flexed on beat. My favorite part was turning around and seeing some audience members giving him standing ovation. It might be the first stand ovation I have seen in No Shame history.

7. Jericho and Amie - Read this Notice
Jericho reads a gmail exchange among his family members about bridesmaid drama while Amie taps and emotes. The whole thing was pretty great.

8. A video by Todd Mein
I forgot to get the title of the video. It was Micheal Jackson's Beat It with little kids dancing and flys collecting around watercolors.

9. Roxy Castillo - Variety
Roxy started off by talking about how hot Derek was. The audience was on board. She then broke it down with some stories and jokes from her life.

10. Stag Comedy - Jelly Back
David on the floor of his office with Jelly Back. Yay Stag comedy

11. Katie Pengra - Also boring stand up
Katie and Ralph were not boring but very funny. I love that Katie reads Mommy blogs but is not a Mommy.

12. Band of Liars - Improvised song
Impressive and entertaining. I love musical pieces at No Shame. Instruments included keyboard, 2 guitar, harmonica, xylophone, megaphone, and tambourine.

13. Josh Ronsen - The Clifford Simak Project
This was from a bigger piece Josh did where he had 60 descriptions from sci fi novels that described sounds and had musicians recreate them. Josh read some of the descriptions. Must see whole piece as possible.

14 Justin Davis - Story by the numbers
Touching, funny story about Justin teaching in English to high schoolers in Mississippi.

15. Sara Farr - Puppet Improv Project
A pink puppet gave a toast as a bridesmaid at a wedding reception. How does Sara get those puppets to emote some much?

16. Bryan Roberts- The Worst Thing I'll Ever Do?
Bryan set up a serious tense moment bringing Kyle on stage delving into his life and Cystic Fibrosis. It ends with Bryan drinking a small amount of his own blood from a syringe. It turns out it was just ketchup. Bryan fools us all on April 1st..

Special No Shame friday April 15th to replace the cancelled May No Shame for LAFF. Spread the word.

We're moving to first and third Fridays of every month!!

Time for the June 3rd No Shame. Sign ups begin at 930 and are first come first serve. All acts must be five minutes or under. Anything goes as long as you don't hurt anyone or damage the stage. Who knows what will happen this month? Who knows?