Saturday was “my” day, and I decided to do a bit of a double feature. I headed south to Canton with Mer to the dollar theater, to see the movie The Vow. The Vow is a story loosely based on the true story of a woman who is in a car accident and loses several years’ worth of her memory, which includes all of her memories of her husband and even being married. The movie explores how the couple deals with the difficulties of being married to a complete stranger, and some other family complications come in as well. It was a very solid film, and I was surprised that it was not more sentimental. It was a fairly thoughtful treatment of the material, and I liked it.

After going home and eating, I took Mer to the new-to-us Cuyahoga Falls Cultural Center. Neither of us even knew we had a cultural center. It turns out to be an old public school building that now houses a small theater and holds several community-focused classes, like dancing and woodworking.

I had brought Mer to the Cultural Center to see the improv group Point of No Return. My friend Brandon had sent me an e-mail from the group announcing auditions. Brandon figured I might want to pass the information along to the students in my improv group, which I did. But it also made me aware that Cuyahoga Falls had an improv group, which I had known once and forgotten. It also turns out that the founder of the group is one of the computer service vendors I deal with – one of the vendors who are in charge of CVCA’s off-site backup. It surprised me, and I was looking forward to seeing my vendor in the group.

Point of No Return has an ambitious schedule:  they practice two hours a week, and have shows about twice a month. They have a suggested admission of $5.00 to help them cover costs. Mer and I got to the show about an hour early because I misread the e-mail (I thought the show started at 7:00, and the doors opened at 7:00). These things happen. I was able to visit some with my vendor, Bob, who was very hospitable.

Mer and I got good seats in the front of the small theater. Point of No Return has about ten members, but on Saturday there were only six people who could perform. Sadly, the audience was small, around twenty people. It was unfortunate, because the show was fun. I had not been to an improv show since going to Vancouver with Mer two years ago, and it was fun to be an audience member. The group did a couple of new-to-me games, and they did some interesting twists on a few games I did know. They have a couple of musicians in the group, and so they involved music in two different games, which is always amazing to me since the actors have to make up the songs on the spot. The skits went well, and Mer and I laughed a lot. It was a fun evening, and I plan on going back fairly soon.