We had a solid Fools show this last Thursday. It was a rainy evening, and it was the Thursday before spring break (a day that can be project/test/paper intensive), and there was an Ohio State basketball game on TV, and we still a decent-sized crowd of about 30 people. The audience was a little quiet, which is weird when you are on stage, but Meredith (who was in the audience) says she heard lots of murmured comments such as “that was funny” or “that was great.”

I was pleased with how the show went – we had a few slow spots, and as the director I noticed a few spots where I would have liked things to have been heightened or for relationships to have been stronger, but on the whole I think the Fools did well. The show went about an hour and ten minutes total. I also was encouraged in that a junior who was quite funny in Audience Participation Freeze wants to join the Fools; I asked him to try it this year for the five weeks remaining before our last show. I know it is not much time, but it will help him get used to improv, and it will help me get the Fools up to six people for the last show (my ideal case is 7-8 people). The last show should be on Tuesday, May 1st, so mark your calendars.