Official Roanoke NS Order for 11.25.05

1) Aaron Fallon, STRESSFUL EVENING, poem, performed by the author

2) Jared Reisenberg, THE RE-EMERGENCE OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLITICAL REPRESSION IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, commentary, performed by the author

3) The Sexy Bitches, THANKSGIVING PIECE, performance art, performed by the troupe

4) Mike Allen, HELLO MR. C, scene, performed by the author and Tilly

5) Dwayne Yancey, COLDER THAN A WITCH'S YOU KNOW WHAT (THE HOT VERSION), scene performed by Mike Allen and John Brill

6) Adrien Monti, HOW I MOVED TO ROANOKE, memoir, performed by the author

7) Penny Morrison, UNTITLED, scene, performed by the author, Hunter Thompson, Christina Smith, Laura Tuggle Anderson and ?

8) Laura Tuggle Anderson, EXCUSE ME, monologue, performed by the author

9) Tilly, IT'S NOT QUITE A WONDERFUL LIFE, performed by the author and Mike Allen

10)Christina Smith, HALLWAYS, poem, performed by the author

11)Nelson Oliver, TORN CARD TRICK, illusion, performed by the illusionist

12)Blake Lipscomb, THE CAT OF DOOM, scene, performed by the author, John Brill, Christina Smith and Vickie Holt

13)Amy Alls, DONE AND OUTTA HERE, song, performed by the author

STAFF:
PRODUCER: DARYN WARNER
DIRECTOR: ROBB ROUSE
HOST: VICKIE HOLT
LIGHTBOARD: BLUE
BOX OFFICE: AMY ALLS
CONCESSIONS: CHRISTINA SMITH

IC BONS nominations

So...what do you want to see in BONS?

Big Butt (No Shame) Theatre, 11/18/05

Copied from Adam's post on the MSN board...

I remember everything but "Grape Cider Overdrive". What did Eli do as a point-five?

No Shame Iowa City 11-18-05, Lip Synch Night
1. "Sun-Wolf Medley" by Eli Wilkinson
(lip synch: "Little Red Ridin' Hood". "Let the Sun Shine In")
2. "A Propagandhi Song" by Sean Shatto
(lip synch)
2.5 "Small Asian Vaginas" by Eric Landuyt
(scene: two men discuss vaginae)
3. "Cutsie Ootsie Wootsie" by Danielle and Drew
(lip synch: "Will you Still Love Me Tomorrow?")
4. "Family Skies 2" by Patrick Ashcraft's Evil Twin
(lip synch: Hector proposes to lighthouse keeper Leslie)
5. "I Wanna Get" by Jamal River
(lip synch to Cypress Hill: Jamal wants to get high)
6. "You Won't Regret It" by John Leigh
(Aprille confesses child-Gomez abuse to Becky/Belki)
7. "A Song" by Stuart Erb
(song with electric guitar)
8. "The Mule Is" by Michael "Silver" Tabor
(lip synch to Jamal's live "Love Potion No. 9")
9. "Those Darn Dogs" by Timm Sitzmann
(lip synch/execution to the Baha Men)
9.5 "Grape Cider Overdrive" by Eli Wilkinson
10. "That Crazy Lady from 'Trading Spouses': Remix" by Aprille Clarke
(lip synch to weird techno)
11. "I Gotta Man" from Katy Baggs to Bobby Evers
(lip synch: Katie rejects Bobby's rapped advances)
12. "We Are Here" by Mirri
(Travis lip synchs to Mirri's live "We Are Here to Scare You-hoo-hoo")
13. "Just a Gigolo" by Eric Landuyt
(lip synch/striptease)
14. "We Go Together" by John Shelton
(lip synch to Grease)
15. "Workaday #0: Earnest A. Starker" by Adam Hahn
(lip synch to Britney Spears)
16. "The Richard Cheese" by Bernice Wells Carlson
(lip synch to lounge versions of dirty pop songs; shattered wine glass)


Announcements Included:
-Next week, have a happy Thanksgiving instead of a No Shame. The following week is dead week, then BONS.
-Make your Best Of nominations on the blog or MSN board. (Michael or Aprille, do you want to create a blog discussion separate from this show's?) We will announce the order at the dead week show.
-The Michael Tabor's are releasing a new CD on December 3. They are playing a show that night at Uptown Bill's with opening act Dirty Sixty.
-December 1-3, see "Who Wears the Boobs in this Family?" in Theatre B. Danielle and Drew are in it, as were some other people in the audience, but I can't remember who was actually affiliated with that show and who was just joking about wearing the boobs.

Big Butt (No Shame) Theatre, 11/11/05

Copied from Adam's post on the MSN board...

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh night of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent for No Shame Iowa City 11-11-05

1. "The Fall of the House of Olsen" by Alisa Rosenthal (scene: Olsen twins disagree over separation)
2. "It's that Dance Marathon Time of Year Again" by Tom Turkey, a.k.a. Sheltyshakes (scene: John ignores Eli's torture, murder of a young boy)
3. "Must Grow Beards" by Michael Tabor (monologue: preparation for post-apocalyptic survival)
4. "Three Soup" by Sticky Pull-Apart (scene: Sadie learns to make leek soup)
5. "Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy Crunchy" by Sean Shatto (improvised song with guitar)
6. "Ask Dr. Eli" or "What Happens when You Write a Serious Monologue About Someone and They Come to the Show Last Minute, then Doesn't Show, Leaving Me with a Bad Piece Rather than a Good One" by David Wilk (scene: Johnny Carson parody, questions from the audience)
7. "Doctor Adventure and the Court-Ordered Community Service" by Evan Schenck (scene: government scientist fields questions from elementary students)
8. "Devoured in Time and Your Mom Is Angry but Yer Dad Done Told You Once so Listen or Else and The Happiest of You Are Already Dead" by Cool Jesse (scene: two friends listen to a song, Jesse depresses us)
9. "A Monologue?" by Timm Sitzmann (monologue: the death of punk rock)
10. "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss (performance art: Sophie eats banana to 2001 soundtrack)
11. "The Hurry Pattern" by John Leigh (scene: Aprille, attorneys, Denny in court)
14. "What I Do with Taxpayer Money" by Aprille Clarke (monologue: lame job gives Aprille time to enjoy bizarre sculptural pornography on the internet)
13. "Ryan's Love Letter" as Read by Patrick as Interpreted by Volunteers from the Audience (found art with reenactment by Leslie and Stacy)
12. "Superheroes' Saddest Days #2-6" by Adam Hahn (monologues)


Announcements included:
-Next week is our pre-Thanksgiving lip-sync show, where non-lip-sync pieces are also welcome. Then we take a week off for Thanksgiving. Then we have dead week and the announcement of the BONS order. Then we have BONS.
-Be nice to the stage, and don't molest the props in the entryway.
-If you're not going to bother typing a script for the light booth, we will no longer bother writing more than three words from your title in the order.
-Yes Shame at City High: 8 PM Tuesdays in the Little Theatre, order taken at 7:30. There won't be a show this coming Tuesday, but there will be one the week after. (Is that right? The Tuesday before Thanksgiving?)
-See Aprille in Sweet Charity. This weekend or never.
-Rent Adam's friend Anna's house so she can move to Guatemala.

Official Roanoke NS Order for 11.11.05

ANNOUNCEMENTS

-BIG LICK CONSPIRACY (YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROV TROUPE) HAS ANOTHER SHOW ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH! GO THERE.
-TODD IS UNCLE PECK IN "HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE" AT MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE NOVEMBER 16TH-20TH! GO THERE TOO.
-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH ON THE WALDRON STAGE, MUSIC FROM ROANOKE NO SHAME WILL BE RECORDED FOR AN UPCOMING CD! CALL ABOUT GOING THERE.

(BUSY ENOUGH? NOW, POST YOUR OPINION OF THE SHOW, OR JUST BE IN AWE OF THE AMAZING MACHINE THAT IS NO SHAME THEATRE! IF ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS WERE MISSED, PLEASE ADD THEM IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST OR ON THE ROANOKE NO SHAME YAHOO GROUP. THANKS! -AMY)

1)Amy Alls, I CAN’T SLEEP ANYMORE, song, performed by the author (Amy sings a jazz-ish tune about a long lost love)

2)Brill, L-SPACE 006 V2 CAPT’ JILL SPARROW, scene, performed by the author, Vickie Holt, Mike Allen, Todd Ristau, Dwayne Yancey and Harry from Harry and the Hendersons (Captain Jill Sparrow commandeers a ship in L-Space where The Beatles are looking for another poker player so she can hunt down and kill Captain MacDuff)

3)Dwayne Yancey, PUTTING THE FAIR IN TOOTH FAIRY, scene, performed by Trina Yancey, Keith Yancey and Robb Rouse as The Tooth Fairy (The Tooth Fairy is caught off guard by a wise kid who cons him out of the rest of his tooth money)

4)Adrien Monti, I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M TELLING YOU THIS, memoir, performed by the author (Adrien recounts an event involving her neighbor, AKA “Funky William,” her unwashed hands after chopping jalapeno peppers and her burning vagina)

5)Mike Allen, THE MYOPIC MONOLOGUES, monologue, performed by the author (A down-trodden, under-appreciated L-Space character tells the sad story of being born with one eye protruding from his head)

6)Tilly, DIRTY HARRIET DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, scene, performed by the author, Vickie Holt and Dwayne Yancey (Dirty Harriet corners a cheap, apparently child-molesting bastard who didn’t leave a tip at Mel’s Diner)

7)Blake Lipscomb, A MONOLOGUE ABOUT HACKS, monologue performed by the author (Blake explains how he is aware and proud that most of his collection of movies and science fiction novels are by hacks)

8)Todd Wm. Ristau, IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT’S HOLY, scene, performed by the author, Laura Tuggle Anderson, J.D. Ruelle and Simon Adkins (Todd teaches his ignorant class of unbelievers the truth behind the changing of the seasons)

9)Wanda Moser, THE BURNING BUSH, story, performed by the author (Wanda gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the burning bush” in a story involving a car chase, a police encounter and her flaming vagina)

STAFF
DIRECTOR: TODD RISTAU
HOST: VICKIE HOLT
LIGHTS/SOUND: BLUE
HOUSE MANAGER: CLAIRE VANCOTT
BOX OFFICE/CONCESSIONS: AMY ALLS (WITH HELP FROM BLUE)
PRODUCER: DARYN WARNER

Official Iowa City Big Butt Order 11.4

1. A Is For Elephant by The Michael Tabors (song)

2. How to Make a Milkshake Machine Run by Jonathen Shelton (Shelton, the drunk and angry owner of a milkshake shop, finally gives in and buys a milkshake machine.)

3. I am an Educator and a Role Model for Young People by Adam "Feet" Hahn (Adam responds to apology letters (read out loud by D.K.) written to him by the students he subsitute taught. Things get a little out of hand.)

4. The Institue of Jugglology presents: "A Guy, Two Girls, And Their Cucumber" (Juggling act whihc included a big knife and a cucumber)

5. Who's home? ...is it a ninja? by Sadie loves it when a ninja come home (Monsters attack a guy. Another guy speculates that it was perhaps an elephant that gored him)

5.5 Must Have Beards by Not Michael Tabor (Not a piece about Michael Tabor telling how he would rule the post apocolyptic world, but rather a piece where a guy without a beard can't stand by some dudes that do have beards and are holding up signs saying you have to have one)

6. We Are Anarchists by Eli Wilkinson (Eli and Shelton hate all rules! Big Butt rules, laws of nature, everything!)

7. Pac Man Fever by Evan Shenck (Some guys drive in a car and pretend they are pac man by driving on top of the line...a cop pulls them over...they eat a power pill and the cop gets scared!)

8. Not another Juggling Act ...Oh, wait, it is another Juggling Act - Nevermind by Jason Kollum (another juggling act...this is the one where the guy made the neat stack of block and balanced them on his forehead and juggled five rings)

9. Family Skies by Patrick Ashcraft & Swepany Dell (a family is disfunctional, but all love it when Hector shows up)

10. Daisy Pt. 26 by King Toad (song)

11. Turn Your Frown Upside Down by Danielle Santangelo (D.K. won't stop smiling...a couple guys try to get her to stop, but then one of the guys starts smiling too)

12. Happy Birthday, Mr. Man!! by Stephen Hiro (song)

13. Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Songs by Eric Lundyt (Eric gives a presentation on how you shouldn't have sex)

Official Roanoke NS Order for 11.04.05

ANNOUNCEMENTS

-NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT (AND MOST EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT) AT THE 3RD STREET COFFEE HOUSE, SEE MEMBERS OF THE BLUE RIDGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION PERFORMING THEIR ORIGINAL SONGS (INCLUDING NO SHAMERS CONNIE SELLERS AND MARIAN MCCONNELL)

-ACCEPT THE OFFER AND MAKE A SCENE WITH THE BIG LICK CONSPIRACY (YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROV TROUPE) WHO WILL HOST ITS SECOND SHOW OF THE SEASON, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5TH ON THE WALDRON STAGE AT 9PM! MAKE SURE TO BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP AT THE DOOR EARLY!! THEY SOLD OUT LAST TIME!!

-ON THE WALDRON STAGE NEXT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, AT 8PM, MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE AND UNDERGROUND ROANOKE WILL BE DOING A LIVE RECORDED SAMPLING OF NO SHAME MUSIC FOR AN UPCOMING CD!! THE EVENT IS FREE, BUT SEATING IS LIMITED, SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE AUDIENCE, CALL THE MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE BOX OFFICE AT (540)342-5740 TO REQUEST AN AVAILABLE SEAT!! ALL REQUESTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NO LATER THAN 5PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, SO CALL THEM UP ASAP!!

1) Dwayne Yancey, WHEN THE BIRDS ARE GONE, scene, performed by Todd Ristau and Keith Yancey (The Bird Flu causes humans to drive all birds to extinction, explains a Grandfather to his Grandson)

2) David Cheresnowsky, I LOVE YOU TWO, poem, performed by the author (David expresses his love for his family through spoken word)

3) Sylvia Woodyard, RATED R, poem, performed by the author (Sylvia uses spoken word poetry to describe, in detail, a satisfying sexual experience)

4) BLUE, THE CHRIS STEVENSON SHOW: BABBIES DADDIES, scene, performed
by Zach ?, David Cheresnowsky, Claire VanCott, Carrie Atkins and Billy Atkins (Paternity is questioned when two couples share a condom)

5) H.J. Thomas, INNOCENCE DEFILED, poem, performed by Penny Morrison (Penny shares a poem about child abuse)

6) Gena Shrewsberry, MY HERO, essay, performed by the author (Gena shares an essay she wrote about her hero, her mom)

7) Randal S. Millbank, NATION IN DISGRACE, poem, performed by the author (Randall protests the war using verse)

8) Amy Alls, A SMILE IN YOUR VOICE, monologue, performed by the author (Amy guides everyone through call center orientation)

9) Todd Wm. Ristau, LUKE 9:60, monologue, performed by the author (Todd creepily acquaints us with the truth behind an alarming confession)

10) Robin Barnhill, YUPPIE, monologue, performed by the author (Robin realizes she has become a yuppie when she takes her dog to doggie daycare)

11) MV, SUNRISE DAYDREAMS, poem, performed by the author (Michael describes a loving physical relationship through poetry)

12) Beverly Bishop, AMELIA, poem, performed by the author (Beverly poetically tells the story of a woman and her dreams of stardom)

13) Adrien Monti, HAIR CUTS, live-action memoir, performed by author and friends (Adrien recalls haircuts of the past while having her trusted friends give her a trim onstage)

STAFF
DIRECTOR: TODD RISTAU
HOST: VICKIE HOLT
LIGHTING/SOUND: BLUE
BOX OFFICE/CONCESSIONS: AMY ALLS
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: CLAIRE VANCOTT
PRODUCER: DARYN WARNER