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Mon | December 12, 2005

what I know about KGB from a season of occasional attendance

1. 7:00 is the worst time to show up. You won't get a seat but you will wait for it to start. Either go at 6:45 and get a seat, or go at 7:15 and stand, but save yourself the wait.

2. The reading about sex will be the worst one. It will be clumsy and uninsightful.

3. All the readings will be about sex anyway.

4. You won't die if you go alone.

5. The best seat in the house is the chair on the other side of the first table. However, you need to be with someone to sit there. If alone, sit on the bench by the door, or one of the stools.

6. Sunday night trains leave :11, not :39.

7. The bookless, awardless improv dudes upstairs are more creative than about half the readers I heard this season.

Things I have yet to accomplish:
1. Talking to the authors. I did exchange a half a dozen words with Josip Novakovich at my first reading. But that was about it.

What I know about improv from attending twice:

1. This doesn't start on time either.

2. If the door is closed, this means they are rehearsing, or something.

3. That girl in the audience is someone Porter is dating, or something.

4. No one in the audience is more than two degrees of separation from one of the performers.

5. They are writers.

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