interested in taking an improv class?

Interested in taking an improv class?

The Improv Trick is offering Introduction to Improvisation starting March 24!

Learn "The Trick" to Improv. This highly recommended class is a comfortable and supporting environment, suitable for people who have never been onstage before. Beginning Students find this work easier than they thought and Advanced students find The Improv Trick approach fresh and inspirational.

This class is taught by Bill Chott and George Malich. Chott appears on Disney's *Wizards of Waverly Place, The Ringer* and *Saturday Night Live*. He's performed and taught internationally for *The Second City, Improv Olympic, *and* Upright Citizen's Brigade*. He also teaches workshops for Special Olympics Global Messengers. George Malich is an award-winning St. Louis Actor, star of the film *A. Anonymous* and one of the leading improv teachers in St. Louis, having trained with Keith Johnstone. Your first session of this 4 week introductory course is free. This Lifetime Class can
be repeated to help you develop a firm foundation in the fundamentals of improvisation. This Lifetime Class is only $150 and you can register at the free class at a $25 discount. Scholarships, Gift Certificates, and Internships are now available. For more info, call 314-922-1998, e-mail info@theimprovtrick .com or visit www.theimprovtrick.com

All classes take place at 2715 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO 63118.
Wednesdays 3/24-4/14 7:30-9:30PM
Sundays 3/28-4/25 (Does not occur on 4/4) 3:00-5:00PM

Hope to see you soon,
The Improv Trick

STL 314-922-1998
LA 323-359-8588

Weekly Shows Tuesday and Wednesday
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Lifetime Improv Class

From Bill Chott:

LIFETIME IMPROV CLASS

One price pays for free improv classes...for the rest of your Life!
Perform in a showcase and join us onstage for shows twice weekly!

Cost: $150, only $125 if you pre-register online.

Learn "The Trick" to Improv. This highly recommended class is a comfortable and supporting environment, suitable for people who have never been onstage before. Beginning Students find this work easier than they thought and advanced students find The Improv Trick approach fresh and inspirational. Students of this class appear in an improv showcase and can perform twice weekly at Improv Trick shows. This class is taught by Bill Chott and George Malich.

Chott is the star of Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, The Ringer and Saturday Night Live. He's performed and taught internationally for The Second City, Improv Olympic, Upright Citizen's Brigade. He also teaches workshops for Special Olympics Global Messengers.

George Malich is an award-winning St. Louis Actor, star of the film A. Anonymous and one of the leading improv teachers in St. Louis, having trained with Keith Johnstone.

If you enjoy this free class, you can register at a discount for a 4-week introductory course — The Lifetime Class — that you can take again and again. This Lifetime Class is only $150 and you can register at the free class at a $25 discount.

WHERE: The Improv Trick Comedy Underground - 2715 Cherokee, STL MO 63118
WHEN: Sundays 3-5pm, Wednesdays 7:30-9:30pm - Sit in on either class for Life!
COST: $150, only $125 if you pre-register online.

Scholarships, gift certificates, and internships are now available. For more info, call 314-922-1998 or visit theimprovtrick.com

Improv Benefit for childhood cancer this Saturday

One Night Only!!!! The Improv Trick is proud to host the "BAD BOYS OF KANSAS CITY IMPROV!"

October 17 at 8:00 pm at The Improv Trick Comedy Underground!

Tickets are only $10 and proceeds will benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand, a charity dedicated to fighting childhood cancer.

For more information or to make reservations, call 314-922-1998

Please invite your friends!!! This is going to be a really fun event!

Kansas City Improvisers to Play St. Louis for Cancer Charity
St. Louis – Loaded Dice, Kansas City’s Bad Boys of Comedy are coming to St. Louis to perform with Bill Chott’s Improv Trick on October 17th, 2009. Loaded Dice promises to bring fun, fast-paced comedy with a whole lot of attitude from Missouri’s “West Coast” and a portion of the ticket sales will benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a foundation that supports finding a cure for childhood cancer. The show begins at 8:00 PM.

Loaded Dice competed in Kansas City’s Improv Thunderdome which pits nine improv teams against one another twice a year to determine who the best improvisers in Kansas City are. The Bad Boys of Comedy won, two times, a feat that no other team can claim. The Kansas City-based troupe also hosted a twenty-four-hour comedy benefit this summer raising over $1200 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand.

Clay Morgan, director of Loaded Dice, wants to expand the troupe’s comedy arsenal and help kids at the same time. Loaded Dice partnered Alex’s Lemonade Stand because it supports research going on at KU Med Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. “It was sort of a no-brainer to team up with such a great charity. Plus, they were really jazzed about the idea. Laughter is the best medicine,” Morgan said. He hopes that playing with teams in other cities will raise awareness of Alex’s Lemonade Stand and to learn from other improvisers.

“When we play with other troupes, we always learn from their style. We use that to play better and smarter. Performing with teams in Kansas City is great, but there are other cities doing great improv, like St. Louis and Springfield, that are just a few hours away. They offer different styles of doing what we love to do” Morgan says.

Bill Chott, owner of the Improv Trick, hosted the Kansas City Improv Festival a few years ago and Morgan and Chott became friends on Facebook. This connection has led to the cross-state performance for Loaded Dice. The men of Loaded Dice are very excited to perform in St. Louis.

“We’re pretending we are rock stars on tour. We get a chance to do what we love in front of new audiences,” Morgan adds, “We aren’t going to tear up a hotel or anything like that, but we will hit the stage with all the swagger and confidence that is associated with bands like KISS and AC/DC.”

The Loaded Dice will also be teaching a workshop on Sunday October 18 at 1 pm.

Registration is just $25 for Current Improv Trick Students and $30 for everyone
else. Space is limited so reserve your spots today!
314-922-1998

The Improv Trick Comedy Underground is at 2715 Cherokee St. STL, MO 63118

FREE Improv Class, Longform Class begins Monday

FREE Improv Class Wednesday, Longform Class begins this Monday, October 5.

Take this FREE class and you can register for The Lifetime Class:

Introduction to Improv – Level 1
Wednesdays, 7-9pm – Join in anytime, for Life!
PUBLIC SPEAKING, NETWORKING, FUN

Bill Chott from SNL, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Ringer is recognized nationally as one of the best improv teachers. Take advantage of this class while he’s in town, and you’ll be able to take it for FREE for the rest of your Lifetime. Bill and others teach this class year-round and once you’ve taken the class you can always come back and take this class for free. This class is a safe and comfortable environment, suitable for beginners and experienced improvisers looking for a fresh point of view.

Students in this class will be eligible to perform in a Student Showcase at the Improv Trick Comedy Underground.

The Improv Trick Comedy Underground is located at 2715 Cherokee St. Saint Louis, MO 63118

Instructors: Bill Chott and Marc Pruter

Big Free Comedy Tonight!

*WHAT? Long Form Improv Comedy & Jam!!*
*WHEN? **Tuesdays at 7:30pm!*
*WHERE? Improv Trick Comedy Underground! *
*WHY? It's Fun! It's Funny! It's FREE! *

** *AND This Tuesday August 4th ONLY!!*
By special arrangement: local psychotronic acoustic guitarist *Bill Boll* opens the show with his sometimes touching, sometimes humorous, *always dynamic* combination of originals and covers.

*Bill Chott's* Improv Trick Comedy Underground is located at 2715 Cherokee, between Iowa and Ohio. The show starts at 7:30pm LIVE music and doors open at 7:00pm. Admission is FREE and you may B.Y.O.B.

What the heck is longform? If you've never seen longform improv (and even if you have) you will be amazed as teams of improv actors create an entire play-let, from a single audience suggestion, right before your very eyes!

Tuesday Nights at the Improv Trick feature a sampling of longforms, like:

- *Dream* (an audience member recounts their day, as our players portray that night's possible dream);
- *Armando* (a player provides comedy monologues based on an audience suggestion, and the other players create a montage of scenes, based on ideas generated from the monologues);
- *Ugly Coyote: Harold *(three different scenes revisited three times with palate cleansing short-form games between). Ugly Coyote stars: Lindsey Barrow, David Imler, Mike Lara, Han Lim, George Malich, Theresa Masters, John Stumpf and Ric Syberg.

A typical (though there's nothing typical about it!) longform night also features several short form games, musical numbers, and opportunities for audience members to get up and "jam" too!

If you're a fan of longform ... come on out! Maybe even join the jam? If this sounds like some sort of freaky spectacle ... then come to the freak show and meet the freaks!

Please visit www.theimprovtrick.com for more information.

Original comedy August 6-8 at the Tin Ceiling Theater

Seen in NYC! Come see the St. Louis premiere!

"Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite", an original two-person comedy about a very "talented" middle school

• Thursday, August 6 at 8pm
• Friday, August 7 at 8pm
• Saturday, August 8 at 8pm
• with a special LATE-NIGHT SHOW Friday, August 7 at 10pm

Created and performed by Jo Firestone and Dylan Marron

"Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite" is a comedic tribute to middle school talent shows everywhere and the ugly and/or passion they try so hard to contain. An original play created and performed by two people who like themselves more now that they are no longer in middle school, "Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite" is a play for anyone who ever thought it couldn't get any better than a moon bounce.

The Tin Ceiling
3159 Cherokee Street
(at the corner of Cherokee and Compton)
St. Louis, MO 63118

Tickets are $10

For ticket reservations, email ridgefieldtheplay (at) gmail (dot) com

Tuesday Night Longform Improv

This Tuesday (as well as every Tuesday!) Ugly Coyote along with The Improv Trick present the Harold Night and Longform Jam! Come out and watch as the players spin completely improvised scenes, games, and vignettes into a three act play all based on a single suggestion from the audience! The night is free and fun and starts at 8:00 pm! So don't miss your chance to get in on the underground comedy scene in St. Louis at:

The Improv Trick Comedy Underground:
2715 Cherokee St.
St. Louis, MO 63118

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Last chance to see Bill Chott in STL

One last week to see Bill Chott in action here in St. Louis. Three, if your schedule permits this week. Listen to us live on John Carney's show on KMOX tonight around 10:30 or so.

1. HAROLD NIGHT AND LONGFORM JAM - Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and St. Louis' hottest improvisers perform longform improv, an artform with roots in St. Louis history. Tuesday June 23rd (tonight) at The Improv Trick Comedy Underground 2715 Cherokee St. 8:00 pm.

2. COMEDY STAGE MATCH - St. Louis's top comedy improvisers match wits in The Stagematch, a no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag out head to head bout. Imagine if Wrestling at the Chase broke out at a Whose Line Is It Anyway improv show! Cheer your heros, boo your villains, and you'll laugh till you're down for the count. Funds from this show will benefit local at-risk kids and adults in the Cherokee area. Wednesday the 24th (tomorrow) At The Stable 1821 Cherokee 9:00pm

3. COMEDY ROAST - Bill Chott's 40th Birthday Roast. Bill's comedy friends and family will rip him a new one, and the public is invited. This will be every bit as raunchy and rowdy as a Friar's Club or Comedy Central Roast. Don't miss this once in a lifetime event! $8.00 ticket includes beer! At The Improv Trick Comedy Underground 2715 Cherokee 9:00pm.

Online ticketing is available for all these events...The Roast may sell out early, so buy your tickets now. For info, click here.

Stage Match TONIGHT ... June 3rd at The Stable.

Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) hosts this hilarious opening night benefit for a new St. Louis comedy tradition.

St. Louis's top improvisers will match wits in The Stagematch, a no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag out head to head bout. Audience suggestions are spun into pure comedy gold in this evening of competitive improv.

Imagine if Wrestling at the Chase broke out at a Whose Line Is It Anyway improv show! Cheer your heros, boo your villains, and you'll laugh till you're down for the count.

Funds will be raised for scholarships for local improv students, and this party will go on way into the night.

At The Stable 1821 Cherokee Street (at Lemp)
Doors Open at 9:00pm
June 3

Suggested Donation $10

Workshop & Auditions & Audition Workshop

Audition Workshop - Stop Making the Same Mistakes!

Work in Film and TV
Learn from a Working Professional with experience in Top 10 films and TV’s highest rated shows. Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer) teaches you his secret methods.

Learn Audition Technique Tips and Tricks:
How to Prepare for the Unexpected.
Get an Instant Guaranteed Callback!
Learn how to market yourself.
Turn a Question into an Instant Showcase!
Audition Technique Workshop
Only $50! Register with a friend and save $10
Sunday May 10 7-9pm
At The Improv Trick
2715 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
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Comedy Audition with Saturday Night Live's Bill Chott

The Improv Trick will be holding comedy auditions on Sunday, May 24, 2009 from 3:00 - 6:00 pm at 2715 Cherokee. For work with Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer) on stage, at festivals, tours, corporate events, and online content. All ages, no experience necessary. Call 314-922-1998.

Bill Chott
Actor: Website Reel IMDb
The Improv Trick
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Multicultural Audition

The Improv Trick will be holding multicultural auditions for scholarships and performance on Sunday, May 17, 2009 from 7-9 pm at 2715 Cherokee. Seeking African-American, Latino, Asian, all ages and all ethnicities for work with Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer) on stage, at festivals, tours, corporate events, and online content. All ages, no experience necessary. Call 314-922-1998 or e-mail at info at theimprovtrick dot com.

Free improv class and party

Bill Chott (Saturday Night Live, The Ringer) is back in St. Louis! He just shot a scene with Johnny Depp in the upcoming film The Rum Diary. He's in town through June and he'll be teaching classes for adults, kids and teens.

Don't miss this chance. Please tell a friend.

Kids know Bill as Mr. Laritate from Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place and PBS's Curious George. Teens know him from Johnny Knoxville film The Ringer, and Dude Where's My Car. Everyone at Altenheim has seen him on ER and MONK.

Join us this Saturday, April 18, for a FREE Improv class, party, improv jam and networking event. . To register, please email info at theimprovtrick dot com or call 314-922-1998.

To find out more about the classes Bill is teaching while he's in town, please visit http://www.theimprovtrick.com.

Thanks,
The Improv Trick Team

The Improv Trick in St. Louis is at 2715 Cherokee Street.