No Shame Theatre Archives (1991-92)

Archivist's note: Dates in [brackets] are possible Friday performances of No Shame, however, we have no other information about these dates at this time, which in some cases may mean that there was not a performance. (This is especially true at the beginning and end of semesters, since the starting / ending dates of No Shame changes from year to year).

KEY:
Author(s) - Title (Performers, if known)

1. Numbered entries indicate the piece's position in the order.
   

• Bulleted entries - the exact order is unknown.
  

1. Todd Ristau - (Christ piece, part one, in which Christ makes mud animals and miraculously builds a chair in his father's shop. Finishes by indicating this is the end of Part 1)
   
2. Scott Smith - The John Smick Song
   
3. Peter Ullian - (no title, but the piece begins with Peter bending over, holding his forehead, making pained noises.)
   
4. Drugstore
   
5. Laura Quinn and CSJ - Aggressive Women's Theater #3
   
6. Mike
   
7. Dwarf Spanking
   
8. Whisner
   
9. Neveu
   

• Robb Barnard - Why Ask Why?
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and Laura Quinn - Aggressive Women's Theater IV: If the Theater is Our Vagina, then What Are We Doing for Protection?
  
• John Smick - Where No One Has Returned From including Sean's scene (the Kirk/Spock battle from "This side of Paradise" )
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Flash
  
  [Carolyn Jacobson doing a very funny monologue about how people would piss her off and that's why she flashes them, during which she flashes we, the audiences members, many times. --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Guitar guy (Jim Lundford?) "She" song
  
• John C reading something memorized
  
• Scott Hixson - Sensitive Men's Theater
  
• Todd Ristau's soft sculpture thing, No Shame Manifesto
  

• Jon Price - The "Bewitched" counter-melody - (Inger Hatlen & Jon Price)

  [the two part version of Bewitched, Jon played piano and sang the counter-melody, Inger sat on a stool and sang the main melody.]
  

• Brett Neveu - Egga and Ferd's Scavenger Hunt #1
  
• Chris Mortika - If I could Read Your Mind (Mortika)
  
• Todd Ristau - puppet piece
  

• White Boy Black Boy - Whiteboy - Blackboy [The first WBBB piece. Performed sometime in September '91]
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Nude? At NoShame? [with Robb Barnard]
  
• Margie DuBé - The Les Miz Piece
  
• Gwen Link downer piece
  
• Some Elvis singer (nervous) (Jim Langstrom)
  (reference to Marci doing stand up every week last semester)
  
• Andrew Dice Clay take off guy--booed
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and JC Luxton - Brother-Sister Poetry Squad (based on my computer dates)
  

• White Boy Black Boy - Daddy Webster
  
  [which was me playing an adolescent dealing with wet dreams and Bill as my father giving me advice straight out of the dictionary. --Todd J. Peterson]
  

1) John Smick - The Chuck Wagon Cafe (performed by JC Luxton) GA# 765
2) Richie (T-bone), GA# 766
3) Brett Neveu - Egga and Ferd's Scavenger Hunt #2 (performed by Brett Neveu and Doug Steckel), GA# 764
7) Wolfe - Rich Sanders?, GA# 763
8) John C Luxton and Dan Cahoy - Futher Mucker Pecker Tit--GA#762--And the last "Ranger" sketch? The part where John C stuck a plastic staff down his pants was pretty good--but I didn't quite see "Space" Jacobsen's point in that one. I think it could've been a bit clearer, or something.
15) Rebecca Gilman--["Clawhead and Eetlewon, climbing the great mountains"], GA# 779

• Josh Peskay and Shannon McCormick - Pork and Beans
  
  [which was the two of them beating on empty Pork and Beans cans, chanting "Pork!" "And Beans" over and over. Very funny. --Todd J. Peterson]
• Adam's Incoming piece with Mike--
  
• Gwen Link--
  
• White Boy Black Boy - Leave It To Beaver
  
  [Mrs. Beaver (played by Anne Fogarty) goes on a menopausal rampage, tying up Ward (Woodside) and setting him on fire as Wally (me) and Beaver (Bill) look on in wonder. --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Dan Layne--
  
• Jim Woster - Untitled Doctor Seuss poem (performed by Doug)
  
• Musician--
  
• John Smick--Ham piece
  
• Found it on the ground--
  

• Worst piece to Adam Whisner for that pointless bit where he and Mike sat on stage and giggled at the audience for far too long. The point where a third of the audience turned into planes was well-orchestrated and funny as hell, but the rest of the bit went on forever and had no point.
  
• Close second to Dan Lane for the fire girl piece, which was typically wandering, confused, and pointless. (Despite the funniness of the line "It's gonna take a while. She has to come over mountains and shit.")
  
• Jim Langstrom ("that Elvis guy") on the piano was kind of confusing. Having taped him for the Public Access channel and seen him perform 3 songs in a row flawlessly, I'm starting to wonder if the I-can't-make-it-through-a-song act is just a shtick. I didn't think it was nearly as funny or well played last night as in previous weeks. O well.
  
• too bad the WBBB piec this week was under rehersed. I thought Anne did a great job as MS. Cleaver though.
  
• Josh Peskay and Shannon McCormick - Pork and Beans
  
• Incoming bombers piece most impressed me with the faith those two had in the audience. I would never trust that the audience would laugh the way the did, so for the first few minutes I was completely entranced watching them react and watching the audience provide the (seemingly) unsolicited laughter. Of course my trance-like state wore off long before they started talking, which was a problem.
  Yeah, the Bomber Sketch was really a good idea, but hardly prepared for. They asked me to announce the "incoming bombers" in the sketch only 5 minutes before the show started. They were very unclear about it to me, and they really were unhappy with the results. The idea behind it was the the stage is like a different 'plane' where they could sit and watch the audience just as the audience watches them...through the imaginary distance or wall between the performer and audience. (Wall...really bad choice of words...sorry) I thought it SOUNDED like a neat idea. But they really didn't make it that clear in their piece.
  
• Seuss tribute (repeat of Jim Wooster's piece) performed by Doug (which one? sounds like Dawson)
  
• Jim on Piano
  
• John Smick's ham and cheese piece was very smick
  
• I thought the piece where the guy graded the flats was great, especially as I got to show off my tech knowledge to myself by understanding all the terms and my theatre knowledge by understanding the characterization. Geesh, that tragic look in his eye when he talked about "the toggles! the toggles!" and that note of menace when he said "Which is fortunate, as the group did not bother to check!" Tee-hee.
  
• "I'm your academic advisor...Oh, Computer programming" skit
  
• What WAS that Satan-stick-not-evil-enough-suck-your-lungs-out piece? Just curious as to the mindset of the writer. What the hell was s/he smoking at the time their fingers were writing that?
  
• stupid poserish "Last Cigarette" skit.
  

7) Michele Brundige [W: I am happy]
8 Neil Cleary

• Drew McLean - A Modern Erotic
  
• the homeless artists skit also
  
• Clint Corley - Paper Scrap Theater
  
• White Boy Black Boy - Wubba Bubba song
  
  [David wrote and played a song on the piano that all three of us sang. --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Amy Honn - Limericks (?)
  

• White boy/black boy/director song was a great pleasant surprise, I'd have never guessed the guys could carry a tune let alonepull off a great job on the piano.
  
• the beautiful young woman who read those enticingly funny limericks.....who was that woman in blue???? (sounds like Amy Honn)
  
• Sounds like there is a new Table Top series going on. One character can't speak.
  

• Chris Mortika - Memory Sponge (Entsminger)
  
• Van Halen--Magic trick
  
• Tadao N. Tomomatsu - The Foreigner
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and Laura Quinn - Aggressive Women's Theatre V: Aggressive Women in 3-D (Midsummer's Agressive Women's Dream piece)
  
• Ralph Malph piece
  
• Eric C. Johnson and Doug Steckel - Sanford Meisner and Son
  
• [annoying freshmen]
  
• [WBBB alternate names]
  
  [This is not a WBBB piece, this is a piece by another no shame regular (I wish I could remember her name, she wasn't a theatre person so we never really met) - it was in response to a piece we did the week before in which Bill stated WubbaBubba (as we were known) means White Boy Black Boy, cuz what the fuck else is it going to stand for? She answered it the very next week with a list of all the many other things Wubba Bubba could very well stand for. That was a lot of fun that night. --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson - NoShame Harrassmen
  
• 10) Laura Quinn - October Surprise
  
• [piano player]
  
• [boy,egg]
  
• Jon Price song (hard to hear)
  
• Mike Dowell's blues song. Either way, once again his infectuous smile carried the piece. Baby, I gots Romance, I gots me a car...
  
• 11) Mike Steffens-Moran - excerpt from Fast Food
  
• Kirk/Khan piece
  

• 11) Carolyn Space Jacobson - So . . .
  
• Chris Mortika - Cups and Sponge Balls (Mortika, Entsminger)
  
• Freudian slips piece
  
• Clint Corley and Eric Summers - 4 Tall Men
  
• Sexual harassment piece
  
• Men are stupid (I loved it, said a lot of work went into it)
  
• Mark Johnson--[moldy potato skins]
  
• Brett Neveu--[tennis ball piece--tennis balls with arms and legs involved]
  
• John Smick (read by JC Luxton)
  
• WBBB piece involving song by David (I comment it went well with sexual harrassment piece)
  
• Woman reading about party,what it's like to live with someone (could have been Vicky Smith's piece about Eric Summers)
  
• Ron--[boring piece, I comment]
  
• Neil Cleary and Nathan ??? - Ghost Town (song for guitar and violin)
  
• Lisa--(my notes says 'toug trips'. "Drug trips?" "Tough trips" ???)
  
• Peter Ullian--[God does a lot of things I wouldn't do]
  

7) Laura Quinn - A Visit with Dr. Dog

• Laura Quinn and Carolyn Space Jacobson - Our Chase Sketch
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Virgin
  

• Amy Honn - Haiku
  
• Mike Geither
  
• Unbridled lust
  
• Laura Quinn--[Skade, Norse goddess of Skiing] [Could be GA#733, which says it's #7 followed by Conroy--which could be the piano piece. Maggie Conroy did a piece which was just a long into GA# 748]. Sounds right. Would be worth checking around at that point in the archives to see if anything else matches up.
  
• Margie and Jenn
  
• Marcie's Play [Orville Right, Wilbur Right, Orville Reddenbocker]
  
• Pork 'n' Beans guys running around stage
  
• John Smick and Brett Neveu
  
• John C's Play - Chaos Comes to Cross Creek, Scene 1
  
• Piano Piece (woman with long intro, forgets name)
  
• Snodgrass fellow playing guitar
  
• Mike Moran
  
• Gary--Vietnam
  
• Peter Ullian--Lock Petersen
  
• Erin Jacobs
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Mimetic Invention #1
  
• Laura Quinn - Good and Bad Children
  

[performed in the lobby before NO SHAME, for the line leading to Theater B:]

• Brett Neveu - The Sketeeoooos (performed by the group Subversion)
  

• John Smick - A Street Scene, Circa 1894
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and JC Luxton - John C Helps Out
  

[performed in the lobby before NO SHAME, for the line leading to Theater B:]

• Brett Neveu - The Best (performed by the group Subversion)
  

1. Brett Neveu - Egga and Ferd's Scavenger Hunt #3 (Actually Part 1, and Part 3, which was a Christmasy conclusion, as per the video tape. Performed by Eric Johnson, Doug Stekel, Rebecca Gilman, JC Luxton, and Brett Neveu. Reference made to Part 2, in which J.C. Luxton played the General. Also reference to there being a big gap between Part 2 and Part 3.)
   
2. Tadao N. Tomomatsu - The Foreigner (impressions)
   
3. CSJ and John C Luxton - Brother-Sister-Brother Poetry Squad (Perfomed by CSJ, John C Luxton, Scott Smith, and James Luxton)
   
4. Doug Steckel and Eric Johnson - Practical Exercises in Theater as performd by D. Steckel and E. Johnson (aka Sanford Meisner and Son)
   
5. White Boy/Black Boy Theater - Whiteboy - Blackboy
   
6. Rebecca Gilman - (Sparky the Monkey and Frog Girl)
   
7. Neil Cleary - Ghosttown (guitar, vocals, and violin) Another note says that they played a song called Ballad of the Dogs but they introduce it on the video as Ghosttown.
   
8. Scott Hixson - Sensitive Men's Theater (performed by Hixson and Mark D. Johnson)
   
9. Carolyn Space Jacobson and Laura Quinn - Aggressive Women's Theatre V: Aggressive Women in 3-D (Midsummer's Agressive Women's Dream piece)
   
10. Drayer, David
    
11. Amy Honn - Amy Honn's Poetry Corner (which may have involved some limericks, or may even have been called "Limericks," although "AHPC" is the title Doug used in the order on the video tape.)
    
12. Jenn Shepard and Margie Dube - (Bloodsuckers piece)
    
13. Clint Corley - Paper Scrap Theater (parking ticket)
    
14. John Smick - Where No One Has Returned From (Red Shirt Star Trek Piece, large cast)
    
    [A Star Trek piece, about how any crew member on the Enterprise that wears a red shirt on Star Trek is destined to die. It was funny as shit. I believe John Smick played Kirk, and I think Doug Steckel was in it as well. --Todd J. Peterson]
    
15. Sean Judge - (Star Trek Scene)
    
16. Todd Ristau - (This piece wasn't videotaped, but there is a shot of Luxton removing a podium from the stage. This might be Todd's No Shame Manifesto)
    
17. Clint Corley - 4 Tall Men
    
18. Peter Ullian (piece beginning "I go to my mailbox . . .")
    
19. Margie DuBé - The Les Miz Piece
    

11) Laura Quinn - You only Live Once [There is a piece of LQ's dated November 5, 1991 (maybe performed 11/8)]

White Boy Black Boy - That's It

[I believe the "That's It" piece was somewhere in the end of November. I don't remember much about this piece, except that it failed spectacularly and that Woodside skipped it (very smart of him, seeing at how the piece was received) and Dave Drayer and Gary Widland were in it with Bill and myself. It was some sort of comment on Voice class, I think I may have been busting on Joe Gilday (the Voice teacher), whom I did not care for. Doesn't matter, if really didn't work and I wrote it. --Todd J. Peterson]

• Jenn and Margie - Bloodsucker, part 1
  
• Brett--Flashlight/sock puppet thing ("I have a gun but I don't have a trigger finger")
  

2) Carolyn Space Jacobson - Fucking Catherine/Catherine Being Fucked [with Eric Johnson]

• Chris Mortika - The Powers of Two (Mortika, w/ DuBé & Shepard)
  
• Jim Thorn No Shame Piece - [SOURCE: Ristau's datebook - This was either a piece by Jim with Todd in it, or a piece by Todd with Jim in it.]
  

• Michelle Brundige--[two women have killed people]
  

• Laura Quinn - Meet the Press
  
• Smick/Jacobson - Ready to Eat Dinner Product
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Breast Monologue
  
• Brett Neveu--puppets
  
• small boy
  
• Michael Jackson's Biggest Fan
  
• Black Acting School
  
• Josh Peskay and Shannon McCormick - The Search for the Yeti: A Play in Five Acts
  
• Margie Dubé and Jenn Shepard
  

[Among the pieces done were:]

• Rabbit
  
• Millie
  
• the green man
  
• Chicken Sunday
  
• Lou
  
• Kesseberg's Speech
  
• Hit and Run Self Revelation
  
• Dishwasher
  

4) Brooks Peck and Carolyn Space Jacobson - River City Improvs

10) Carolyn Space Jacobson - NoShame Doctors

• Peck and Smick - Reginald (might this have been an earlier year? Some week before was Neville by the two of them)
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and John C Luxton - House of Mother--Week 1
  
• John Smick - Long Long Long Day's Journey Into Night
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson and John C Luxton - House of Mother--Week 2
  
• John Smick - Imagine
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson and John C Luxton - House of Mother--Week 3
  
• Scott Smith's No Shame Musical

1. ???
2. Brooks Peck - Ode to my Cat Quicktrip
   
3. Josh Peskay and Shannon McCormick - The Search for the Yeti: A Play in Five Acts
   
4. Chamberlain - The First ISCA Piece
   
5. CSJ - The Breast Piece
   
6. Shepard and Johnson - Valentine's Celebration
   
7. Adam Whisner
   
8. Clint Corley - B.S.-ometer
   
9. John Smick - A Long Long Long Day's Journey into Night
   
10. Public Service Announcement
    
11. Brett Neveu - UH DERR!
    
12. Clint Corley and Doug Steckel - Wandering Man - (with many people, but especially Bruce Vieira.)
    
    [featured Bruce Viera as Wandering Man, some sort of existential hobo traveling the country and having many adventures]
    

• Carolyn Space Jacobson - Other Women
  
• Carolyn Space Jacobson and John C Luxton - House of Mother--Week 4
  

• Green Eggs and Hamlet
  
• Fiend in the Space
  
• Weird Weather: Cactus Floor and The Mill
  
• Umbrellas
  
• WimbulTON
  
• I Like Wispy Clouds
  
• Outlaws
  
• I See Many Things
  
• Waz en Zuh Tuppaweh
  
• SG
  
• Bird Story
  
• Something Touched My Arm
  
• UH DERR! (with Wispy Clouds interlude)
  

• Carolyn Space Jacobson--Getting Audience to Scream
  (sometime before March 13, and I think before March 6)
  
• Brett Neveu - UH DERR!
  [from March 1992 (around there)]
  
• White Boy Black Boy - [title unknown]
  
  [Some piece we did in which Marge Dube and Jenn Shepard killed us, for some reason that I can't recall, but it seemed like a good idea at that time. Woodside kind of wrote this. --Todd J. Peterson]
  

February 6, 1992
John Smick and Bob Wexelblatt - Klaren Verheim's Guide to Life (Can't quite read the month.

February 14, 1992
Michelle Brundige--[2 Women have killed people]

Spring 1992 article in DI refers to

• Aggressive Women's Theater going on
  
• Yeti Boys
  
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  
• Wandering Man
  

• White Boy Black Boy - [title unknown]
  
  [Some piece where David wanted to know why it was WhiteBoy BlackBoy, why couldn't it be BlackBoy WhiteBoy and Bill response was because Wubba Bubba sounds a lot cooler than Bubba Wubba, which got a big laugh. "Too gay," Bill said, I think. --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Clint Corley & Bruce Vieira - Pants
  
  [Clint also did a piece with Bruce Viera called "Pants" which was about a man that found "Pants" worn, said or thought of, to be very stimulating, sexually --Todd J. Peterson]
  
• Joshua Lewis - The Wheels on the Bus Go Flat
  
  [The only other piece (besides Poodles with Mohawks) that the author performed as a solo act.]