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FARMINGTON — Last year, Mother Nature took it easy on Western Maine, but Old Man Winter came back with vengeance, providing more reasons to laugh the ice piles away. Improvisers from all over Maine and as far away as Rhode Island are slated to perform in the Bjorn Auditorium on the Mt. Blue campus, Friday, March 31, for Improv Comedy Mud Bowl 2017.
Members of Providence Improv Guild and improv team Boom Scones have lent their comedic talents to supporting high school improvisation in western Maine for six years running. Veterans of the New England comedy scene, PIG not only entertain the crowd with their customized comedy, they challenge local improvisers young and old, and in the case of Teachers Lounge Mafia really old, to match wits and ridiculousness.
Battling the members of PIG will be Farmington’s Mt. Blue Curtain Raisers, a team of high school improvisers, with home-stage advantage going into the evening. From the Rumford area, Mountain Valley’s Room for Improv-Ment is a perennial favorite, bringing powerful degrees of funny to every show. Falmouth High School’s comedy crew, Nothing, are anything but nothing when it comes to talent, and showcasing for the first time at the Mud Bowl will be Mountain Valley Middle School’s improv team.
Hoping to school them all will be western Maine’s Teachers Lounge Mafia, who have been warming up for the Mud Bowl with a string of performances in Augusta, Farmington, Yarmouth and Portland. They won’t need to shake off any ring rust; however, they will need to make sure they have their insurance policies updated and hydrate well before the event.
The performances will begin at 7 p.m. featuring a series of showcases from each improv team, to be followed by the no-holds-barred comic lunacy of the Mud Bowl. Concessions will be available for purchase between events.
Improv Comedy Mud Bowl 2017 gets under way at 7 p.m. Doors are open at 6:30 p.m. A suggested donation of $5 a person will be collected at the door to support workshops and training for the high school teams. Questions may be directed to Curtain Raisers’ Artistic Director Dan Ryder, at dryder@mtbluersd.org or 778-3561.
PHOTO CAPTION SUBMITTED WITH PHOTO: Mt. Blue Curtain Raisers have their eyes on Improv Comedy Mud Bowl 2017 Friday, March 31, at Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington, featuring five improv teams including Providence Improv Guild from Rhode Island and western Maine’s Teachers Lounge Mafia. (Pictured top row, l to r, Ben Andrews, Jon Lesko, Jacob Mealey, Tommy Eng, Ashlynn Pease, bottom row, l to r, Audrey Keith, Anna Dunbar, Zeke Robinson, Maggie Murray, Ike Libby)
