PRESENTS

4 No-Holds-Barred

Non-Stop Funny Shows

Friday, May 21st

Saturday, May 22nd

The 7:30 MAINSTAGE Show

Fun, Fast-Paced and FAMILY-Friendly too!

Imagine hanging out your best friends, cutting up, and seeing who can make the other laugh the most. That gives you a small sense of what it is like to witness a Random Acts Mainstage Show.

Random Acts has performed this anything goes format since 2001 and is currently the only group in Richmond performing short-form improv.

Along the lines of Whose Line Is It Anyway,

Random Act's Mainstage show features lots of line games,

guessing games, and goofing around.

The Show starts at 7:30 P.M.

The 9 O'Clock MAINSTAGE Show

Fun and Fast-Paced.

And a Little On The Naughty Side!

The 9 O'Clock Show is just like the 7:30PM Show except for that we recommend you leave the kids at home. While The Mainstage Show features lots of line games, guessing games and goofing around, but the material

is intended for mature audiences only.

The Show starts at 9 P.M.

The HATTheatre

Located at 1124 Westbriar Drive

*For directions...click on the link above

**There is a SPECIAL ADMISSION PRICE FOR THESE SHOWS.**

One Show is ONLY $5.

Staying for BOTH Shows? It'll only cost you $8.

A reminder: We are a cash only production and at this time cannot accept debit or credit cards. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Tell your friends and family.

The boys are back and they are bringing the laughs!

April 23, 2010

April 24, 2010
PHOTO ALBUM

Why did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Featuring Special Guest Greg Smith, Jody Matzer, George Herring, Pat Raines

Dance Break

Greg Smith, George Herring

Next time ladies....bring some dollar bills

Dance Break

Greg Smith, George Herring

Or....maybe not

Irish Drinking Song

Jody Matzer, Greg Smith, George Herring, Pat Raines

"Oh....Li-dee-di-dee-di-dee-dohhh....dee-di-dee-di-dee-d-ohhhhh....."

Two-Headed Blind Date

Pat Raines, George Herring, Greg Smith

Two heads are better...AND FUNNIER...than one

"Does this extra head make me look fat?"

Satan Compels You

Greg Smith, George Herring, Jody Matzer

Pat Raines as The Voice of Satan

Next time ladies....bring some dollar bills

"My mom packed me Double-Stuff OREO'S!"

Amish Death Cane

Greg Smith, Jody Matzer, George Herring

Dressed in black and poised to whack!

Chain Murder Mystery

Greg Smith, Pat Raines, George Herring

There's been a murder! BOM BOM BOM!!

American Idol

George Herring as M.C. CryBaby

People actually cried

American Idol

J.R. Foster

Eat your heart out Simon Cowell

Photo-Mat

J.R. Foster, George Herring

I think that's one of my photos from my trip to Hawaii.

All photos courtesy of Michael Curtis

Thanks so much Mike!

The weekend of

April 23 and April 24th

Hawaiian moose. Satan Compels You. INDONESIA. Double stuff OREO cookies. The Mighty Ducks 3. Amish Death Noodle. Jack Nicholson. Heckling. Leonard Nimoy. The Wonder Twins. Hitch-hiking dogs. Atlantis. Not Atlantis. Toilet paper. No toilet paper. deleted scenes. Death Splinters. Why'd The Chicken? American Idol. Lionel Ritchie. No. Not that one. "Thanks for calling Some Day My Prints Will Come photo mat." Monkeys. MC CryBaby. Renaissance Birthday Prom. Craig? Greg? Tiger Woods. James Wasilewski. Reggae George. Armadillos. Insurance Agents. Angry angry angry moms. Wolfman Jack. Gwen Stefani hiney slaps. B-a-n-a-n-a-s. Unicorns. Star Trek conventions. Weiner mobile. Man-powered coconuts. William Shatner impression. Cat attacks grandma. Happy Birthday in Farsi. A serious scene. Tornadoes. I'm not your father. fish tanks. slapstick comedy.NYUK! NYUK! NYUK! OFF broadway musical. snaps and claps. "Thanks for calling NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE photomat." MURDER! (Bom! Bom! Bommm!)

Well, it was another fun-filled weekend at The HATTheatre.

4 very fun shows full of great energy and lots of laughs.

It was a trip around the world this weekend as the Random Acts guys 'traveled' from Detroit to Indonesia (barely) to Hawaii. We were going to visit the lost city of Atlantis but realized we were in a car. Oh well. Maybe next time.

Along the way we picked up hitch-hikers and ran into William Shatner several times. We were late for work at the jig-saw puzzle factory and airplane plant and made up some pretty wild excuses. Sorry about that.

We explored the question "Why did the chicken and other things cross the road?" We were visited by an Amish ghost and watched helplessly while two men were beaten mercilessly with an inflatable cane. We rapped, we crooned and we performed OCTAVE.

If anyone can tell us what OCTAVE is...please. We'd love to know.

Photos were mixed up at the photo mat and grown men scooted across the stage on their backsides. Serious scenes were performed and players were heckled....by one of their own. Tourists were dangled over active volcanoes and Satan stopped by to take over things for a little bit and command the players to do his bidding. We scooted across the stage like we had worms and someone brought sandwiches to the deleted scenes from Koyaanisqatsi.

We explored red-neck pole dancing and then we watched helplessly as the redneck removed splinters from his man-parts. We explored the family dynamic and admitted to extra-marital affairs and accused our ungrateful, back-stabbing offspring of squandering our 'straw fortune.'

We danced and swapped characters and we even solved a murder (BOM! BOM! BOM!) Sort of. Who would have known that forgetting to replace the toilet paper could make someone resort to murder?

The fun-filled weekend culminated in a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday in Farsi. Or at the very least something that could have been farsi. Luckily there were no Persians in the audience to correct us.

THANK YOU

Thank you once more to Vickie Lynn Scallion and The HATTheatre for letting us play in your great theater. We love our home and we love you.

Thank you to our great and loyal audiences for your funny suggestions and support. There was a lot of love in that theater this weekend and the guys in Random Acts are grateful.

And thank you to our special guest, Mr. Greg "I'm Supposed To Guess The Method?" Smith. Thanks Greg. You brought a lot of energy to the shows this weekend and it was really fun playing with you.

And wait a minute! Was that James Wasilewski up there on stage? It sure was! Although technically on hiatus (rumors that James will appear in the next TWILIGHT movie persist) Random Acts player James Wasilewski made a surprise appearance and played the 9 O' Clock Mainstage Show on Friday Night. Great having you back, James. Hurry back soon. There is entirely too much facial hair in this group and we need someone smooth-faced to mix it up a little.

Our next shows will be

FRIDAY, MAY 21st, 2010

SATURDAY, MAY 22nd, 2010

Meet The Players

George Herring is an actor for RANDOM ACTS, but his improv acting career has taken him around the eastcoast . He performed for 3 years with The Shaun Cassidy Fan Club in Oswego , New York. He founded Just the Funny, and improv group based out of Miami , Florida ; he worked with them for 3 years. Once in Richmond , George produced a one man show called A Man, A Boombox , and a Blowup Doll. George also performed with PUNCH! Sketch Comedy, based in Richmond, for 2 years. George was also the Producer for The Miami Improv Festival for 5 years.

Michael Dunn is glad to be a part of Random Acts Improv Comedy. Though improv comedy is relatively new for him, he has a lot of stage experience. Mike recently played Duke Frederick in As You Like It with the Richmond Shakespeare Festival, Duncan in Leading Ladies with the Chamberlayne Actors Theater, & Odell in Sordid Lives with the Richmond Triangle Players.

Pat Raines is an actor for RANDOM ACTS, but recently ended a tour of duty as the group’s director. As asinger and actor, Pat has been very involved in theRichmond comedy scene for the past 10 years. He was featured in the productions Anything & Everything, The Matrix Redux, The Musical Matrix, and The Empire Rocks Back. He was the lead actor in Finding Leeloo. Pat has also performed with Take 5 Comedy Troupe & Animal Krackers.

JR Foster is an actor for RANDOM ACTS, and has enjoyed a prolific, diverse acting career in the 1st City of the South. A veteran of stage and screen, J.R. was a featured performer in The Crucible, Sugar, West Side Story, Beulah’s Nutcracker, Cabin Fever, A Krackers Christmas Carol, Who Love’s Ya,Cupid?, The Witching Hour, Starbubski Coffee and Rope, Leet, and Chez Geek. J.R. has also performed with Take 5 Comedy Troupe, Animal Krackers, and Math Club.

Jody Matzer is an actor for RANDOM ACTS. His high school Government teacher wrote in Jody's year book that Jody was a true “renaissance” man and never before has a statement been more true about one individual. Jody is an award-winning artist and published author and has a background that includes the theater, advertising and game shows. Jody has worked with one of Richmond's first ensemble improv troupes, The Underground Gang. In addition to his work with RANDOM ACTS as both performer and art director, Jody is currently writing and illustrating his first children's book.

James Wasilewski has been an actor with RANDOM ACTS Improv Comedy since March 2009. Since his diagnosed addiction for attention, he has performed, directed, and work-shopped with professional troupes since 1999 in Richmond, VA (Instant Theatre: Just Add Water; Take 5) and Daytona Beach/Orlando, FL (Second Base; Random Acts of Insanity; SAK Comedy Lab; briefly with the sketch troupe The Humor Mill Orlando). While James lived in Florida, he completed other improv training with nationally recognized SAK Comedy Lab in Orlando.

Presents

Friday, April 23, 2o1o

Saturday, April 24, 2010

The 7:30 MAINSTAGE Show

Fun, Fast-Paced and FAMILY-Friendly too!

Imagine hanging out your best friends, cutting up, and seeing who can make the other laugh the most. That gives a small sense of what it is like to sit in on a Random Acts Mainstage Show. Random Acts has performed this anything goes format since 2001. The Mainstage show features lots of line games, guessing games, and goofing around.

The Show starts at 7:30 P.M.

The 9 O'Clock MAINSTAGE Show

Fun and Fast-Paced.

A Little On The Naughty Side!

The 9 O'Clock Show is just like the 7:30PM Show except for that we recommend you leave the kids at home. While The Mainstage Show features lots of line games, guessing games and goofing around, but the material

is intended for mature audiences only.

The Show starts at 9 P.M.

**There is a SPECIAL ADMISSION PRICE THIS WEEKEND.**

One Show is ONLY $5.

Staying for BOTH Shows? It'll only cost you $10.

A reminder: We are a cash only production and at this time cannot accept debit or credit cards. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Tell your friends and family.

The boys are back and they are bringing the laughs!