What If You Were a Rock Star? Popular L.A. Improv Group Answers This Question in a Never-Before-Seen Rock Mockumentary

(PRWEB) September 16, 2004

Drug overdoses. Infidelity. Vicious infighting. Illegitimate children. Crazed stalkers. Enamored groupies. Slimy representatives who somehow “lose” millions of dollars not their own. These are just a few of the perils a rock star today must somehow avoid. With the help of a live audience, the Really Spontaneous Theatre Company intends to poke merciless fun at these issues as well as create incredible improvised music in their hilarious new show, Behind the Storytellers. Using suggestions from the audience, the Really Spontaneous Theatre Co. will create a brand-new rock mockumentary each night.

Said musical director Dan Jablons: “Who hasn’t dreamed of being a rock star? That’s a pretty universal ‘What if.’ We have so much musical talent in our group, and we really wanted to do something that no other group has ever done. Music is an important part of pretty much everyone’s life, so if we can create something really funny and really good musically, I think everyone can take something from this show and have a great time.”

The actors will all sing, and many play instruments as well. Within the group there are three guitar players, a bass player, an electronic keyboard player, a harmonica player and several extremely skilled tambourine players.

Included in the cast is improviser extraordinaire Jim Meskimen, an original Whose Line Is It Anyway cast member who had an enormous hit this summer voicing John Kerry, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the JibJab animated short “This Land.” Meskimen will team up again this fall with the JibJab boys in another satirical short, which will debut on the Tonight Show. TV audiences can also see Meskimen in the improvised World Cup Comedy on the PAX network in October.

Behind the Storytellers opens on Wednesday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Third Stage, 2811 W. Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank. The show will run every Wednesday through December 15.

The Really Spontaneous Theatre Company is a troupe of eight stage-trained actors that features Whose Line Is It Anyway alumni as well as familiar TV and film faces.

Originally formed at New York City’s National Improvisational Theatre, RSTC entertained East Coast audiences for more than ten years before being seen in such LA venues as the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre in North Hollywood and the famed theater at the Improv on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

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