Rehearsal #3: Genre Combo

We worked mostly on improv last night. Jeff S. taught us a new warm-up game called “The Dukes of Hazard”, which we all really enjoyed, and then we dove into scene work.

We started by doing a scene here and a scene there, before working up to doing the 2 scenes from a long-form. To get a suggestion we experimented with taking a movie, and then describing a few elements of the movie that we liked. Then we took that and Bollywood-ized it.

In addition to being a Bollywood, singing, puppet, musical long-form, we’re realizing the nature of Bollywood (wherein they take any movie genre and add musical numbers) makes this also a gigantic Genre Combo show. We’ve always done a lot of genre combo work in our short-from improv at Un-Scripted. We like taking two very disparate genres and combining them into one scene where we’re doing both genres simultaneously.

It’s a lot of fun and we’ve become quite good at it over the years. We’ve often talked about figuring out a way to turn it into a long-form format, and… well… we may be accidentally doing just that.

Last night we did scenes from a Heist Movie Bollywood, a Nerds at College Bollywood, and a Sci-Fi Bollywood. All hysterical. We didn’t actually do any singing in these little two-scene slices of shows, but we did try to flavor them as Bollywood with our choices of character names and other details.

We’ve got a lot of hoops to jump through on this show, but so far each one is a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to trying to jump through them all at once.