Pitt Improvers' Last Show of Season

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s improvisational comedy club, the Pitt Improvers, will perform a family-friendly show at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall.

The show will also serve as a fundraiser for The Friendship Table. Tickets will be available at the door and are $5 for adults and $2 for students. Pitt-Bradford students are free with a student ID.

Kristin Asinger, visiting instructor of sports medicine, and her husband, Tim, are advisers for the group of 16 students. This is the Improvers first year on campus, and the group has been well received. Recent performances have drawn about 100 students and community members, and the group performed as part of the 2008 Kiwanis Kapers.

During the performances, members of the cast play a variety of improv games and perform them based on suggestions given by the audience.

It was the group’s performance as part of Kapers that made members think of putting on a larger show.

“A larger crowd has a lot of energy as well as more people from whom to draw suggestions,” Asinger said. “The more creative the suggestions, the funnier it is, and what makes it so funny is the unexpected. We laugh, too. This show should be a stress-relief night since it’s the day after taxes are due and the week before final exams.”

Some of the Pitt Improvers (I don't know how many yet -- I told them the more the merrier) will be my guests on the LiveLine on April 15.

Pictured, top, Nuwangi Dias acts out a scene at a recent performance of the Pitt-Bradford Improvers improv comedy group at St. Bernard Middle School. Dias is a biology major from Kanata, Ont. Also, Kristin Asinger, left, and Nicholas Olumese act out a scene at a recent performance for St. Bernard Middle School. Asinger is a visiting instructor of sports medicine, and Olumese is a pre-physical therapy major from Fort Washington, Md.
(Photos courtesy of Pitt-Bradford)

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