CRT Black Box Theatre

Boomtown: Improvisational Comedy at CRT (CLOSED)

Opening Day July 6, plays through August 24

Near the end of the 2006 season, I asked Maurice LaMee about creating an improvisational comedy troupe at CRT. To my delight, he responded enthusiastically and Boomtown was born. It had always surprised me that a theatre with the stylistic flexibility of CRT didn’t offer improv. We tell stories in so many ways: musicals, period comedies, westerns, farces, contemporary dramas, puppet shows, and Shakespeare—why not one without a script? Well, that’s Boomtown. We’re a group of actors performing a heretofore untold story spontaneously in front of the audience, guided only by their suggestion and our imaginations. Humor is a huge part, but it is also our goal to tell a complete story with fascinating characters. Just like a play, only shorter, and we can’t tell you what it will be about. It might involve music, unrequited love, Vikings, dental insurance, or Viking dental insurance. You won’t know until we perform it—and neither will we.