Improv Class

I've been taking improv classes at Dad's Garage since November. I look forward to class every week. It is fun, it pushes me to get outside my head (which I am not so good at), and I am learning new things. We have one more class until we're done with level 3. Once we complete the 7 weeks of level 4, we're done. Boom. Over. But then what? I love improv. I dont want to stop learning and growing in it. My question for myself is "to what end?" As in, what am I going to do with this learning and growing. I have no answer. Nurse by day, improvisor by night? Maybe. The next SNL character? Probably not. This could help me to write the next great American novel. We'll see.

I ask a lot of myself. I am a perfectionist, even though I despise that label. I want to push things to the next level. I look for life lessons in even the smallest of events. What can I learn from this? How can I make it better in the future? I find these traits tripping me up in improv class. Instead of just trying to let a scene with 2 characters work from start to finish, I am in my head thinking about where the scene is going, where a good place for a tilt would be, trying to avoid sterotypes in my character development. Every class my goal is to get out of my head and just let go.

This weekend we saw Tim Meadows perform at Dad's Garage. If you've never been to Dad's, you are missing out on a wealth of enjoyment. This was the first time Tim Meadows has visited a theater and left his troupe home in Chicago. We enjoyed Tim and the Dad's Garage improvisors on Saturday night. They were hysterical. Tim even did a phenomenal job of calming down a loud wobbling drunk chic who thought she might be the highlight of the show. After the show, Nick and I went up the street to Across the Street, a Mexican restaurant. They will work out ways to make just about anything on their menu GF and vegan. I thoroughly enjoyed their mojito and their goat cheese enchilada as a late night snack. I will be going back to investigate their menu, maybe next time in daylight.