Last Friday was the last Royal Fools improv show of the year at CVCA. We had a really good and active crowd of about 150 people. They were a high-energy crowd for whom to play, and they stayed into the show, even though we went an hour and a half, which is long for an improv show.

The show went off very well, with no slow skits and lots of laughs. I heard back through students that they were being told it was the best show of the year. I always take that with a grain of salt, since primacy has a way of coloring memory, but it was a good show.

Every year I end the season by playing a game called “Party Quirks,” where I host a party for all of the senior Fools. Each Fool is given a strange quirk or personality trait or such, and I need to guess what it is. This year we had fourteen seniors, so there was no way I could give a “party” for that many students. Happily, Clarice (my assistant director Fool) came up with a solution whereby I hosted a party for seven pairs of Fools, who were matched up in some way. So, we had good and evil, black and white, cats and dogs, a couple obsessed with shoes and socks, and so on. It worked really well.

After the show, we headed up to Hudson to Cold Stone Creamery, where we met up with our friends Nate and Rachel, as well as a friend of theirs and her two kids. With Nate and Rachel’s two kids, we were quite the merry little party. We spent a long time chatting, and I went for a walk with the three kids old enough to be mobile. I have a theory that kids like me because they see me as one of them. At any rate, we had a good time on our walk around the new square and library in Hudson. We met up with everyone again at Cold Stone, where the last of the ice cream was being finished, and we wrapped up a fun evening.