How Bindas Improv would've helped the Brady Bunch

Bobby Brady: Mom always says not to play ball in the house!

BINDAS: I'm sure Carol would've been okay with "Word Ball" while Peter chases your ass playing Duck, Duck, GOOSE.

Cindy Brady: I'm not a snitcher; I just tell it like it is.

BINDAS: You know what, Cindy? SHOW don't tell.

Peter Brady: Porkchops and applesauce. (immitating Humphrey Bogart)

BINDAS: I see that character from you A LOT... where's the relationship?

Marcia Brady: Ooh! My nose!

BINDAS: If you black out my Silent Scene too early, I'll fuckin' hit you again!

Alice Nelson: If there's anything I can't stand, it's a perfect kid. And SIX of 'em, yecch!

BINDAS: Oh yeah? Try dealing with SEVEN wise-ass improvisers for the past six months! YECCH!!!

Season Finale

Our last show of the season was terrific! It was a great show to end this 6-month season. Everybody played smart, had high energy, and listened to each other.

I've enjoyed being a part of this team, to be sure. We seemed to really connect and play well from the get-go. Even when we were at full-strength, the stage never felt crowded. That's the sign of a good team.

So, ladies and gentlemen, take my advice.... pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

...Im next...

I agree with what John is saying. It goes along with one of my regularly used quotes... "SHOW! Don't tell me." Words are overrated on stage.
I feel audiences enjoy creating the other half of the scene. I believe the audience members imagination gives them the most enriching experience of the evening. When we let them become the "additional player" they tend to invest more in their experience.
Audience members are smart, and can see a set up coming. The great thing is when you aren't telling it to them. "Showing" the audience allows for more reaction, and suspension of disbelief. I have watched silent scenes get bigger reactions than some of the strongest dialogue scenes.
One last thing i would add to this is that with "SHOW", i would add "Feel". Often times, i feel actors forget to truly feel their moments, and emotions, and this usually throws them into their talking heads.
So lets get out there and have some "SHOWFEEL" scenes. I just made a new word.

I am going to do it no really I am...watch me here I go

In improv there are several ways to show the audience emotion...activity..intent...and express what you as an improviser are trying to convey.

One thing that often gets left out is the physical expression. We waste words on stage or make promises that we never keep because we remain planted in one spot not creating environment or objects or for that matter even make eye contact with our scene partners.

How often have we all witnessed the scene where an object is introduced but constantly referred to with words for instance:

Improviser 1: I am going to stop you from eating my candy with this bat.

Improviser 2: *takes another handful of candy and eats it in defiance*

Improviser 1: I mean it you better stop or I am going to use this bat

BORING...because this scene will go on and on and on for several minutes without any action. but we will talk it to death. Why? Because I think sometimes improvisers feel if they kill or harm their scene partner the scene is over. Now tech people have not helped this by hitting that blackout button at the sign of a weapon being used or an improviser falling to the ground after being hit, shot, stabbed, etc.

But what if we look at physical improv as an opportunity to heighten rather than end a scene. I would rather watch an improviser making a sandwich while expressing anger physically versus watching them make a sandwich normally while telling me they are angry.

So to coin a phrase, Let's get Physical. Show don't tell...express through the most honest reactionary tool you have ...Your Body!

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Summers almost over, maybe this thing will pick up.

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"It's better than being drunk."

whay can't I post on this sob?