The 7th Annual Fracas! Improv Festival is upon us.

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In an effort to raise the necessary funds to put on The 5th Annual Fracas! Improv Festival this April, Second Nature is hosting and performing in a 24 hour Improv-a-thon.

For 24 hours, Second Nature is taking over USC to bring you the most exciting 24 hours of improv comedy ever performed!

12pm SATURDAY through 12pm SUNDAY

24 HOURS NON-STOP!
(come and go as you please)
With special guests from:
-IMPROV OLYMPIC
-ULTIMATE IMPROV
-THE UPRIGHT CITIZEN’S BRIGADE THEATRE
-COMMEDUS INTERRUPTUS
-VIDUSHAK

AND MORE!

Prizes! Raffles! T-shirts! Music! Mayhem!

This whole thing is FREE! but we will be collecting donations to raise money for The 5th Annual Fracas! Improv Festival - so bring money!

Every hour will bring a new and exciting show including:
-THE DECONSTRUCTION
-THE LA RONDE
-THE HAROLD
-THE FACEBOOK SHOW
-THE DVD COMMENTARY
-THE HAMFATTER POWER (HALF) HOUR
-THE SPOOKY HOUR
-THE TOTALLY NUDE HOUR
-THE IMPROV JAM
-THE IMPROV JELLY
-THE CHRIS JOHNSON LOOK-(AND SOUND)-A-LIKE DISCOVERY HOUR AND CONTEST
-TELEPROV WITH NICK ELIAFAN
-THE IMPROV MATCH GAME
-CLOSED QUARTERS
-THE SENIOR CITIZEN’S OF COMEDY (WITH REAL SENIOR CITIZENS)
-ZACHARY SIGELKO’S SUPERFLUOUS CABARET (BRING YOUR OWN CABERNET)
-THE ARMANDO
-THE SEVEN MENUS
-RUB-A-DUB REPLAY
-FUN WITH RAY CHASE

AND MORE!

full schedule TBA, check this page for updates!

1AM-2AM:
Second Nature with Roberto Alomar!
(Roberto Alomar is a long form troupe from ImprovOlympic West; cast credits include MADtv, WEEDS, DEXTER, and several national commercials.)

2AM-3AM:
The totally nude hour. From 2:01am through 2:59am all of Second Nature will perform totally nude. No joke.

3AM-4AM:
Open Improv Jam!
Anyone can perform!

10AM-11AM:
The Senior Citizen hour, featuring Marty Dusig, the “Senior Citizen of Comedy”

Tell your friends! THIS IS FOR REAL!

Check out the facebook event here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9340084134

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The Fifth Annual Fracas! Improv Festival, hosted by Second Nature, will take place April 17-19, 2008.

Second Nature founded Fracas! in 2003 as the first purely collegiate improv festival in the country. Unlike other improv festivals, Fracas! centers around the experience of the college improviser. Only college troupes are permitted to perform in the three-day festival, where they also participate in professional workshops with some of the best improvisers in the country. [Read more →]

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Zachary Sigelko (BA, Film) is a sophomore from Chicago, Illinois. Zachary has worked with the Lyric Opera , the Redmoon , Steppenwolf , Lookingglass , and Strange Tree theater companies, has taken classes at Second City, and has studied circus arts at the Actors Gymnasium . He collects typewriters, cameras, figural light bulbs, and old hats.

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