Let It Snow!, an Improvised Holiday Musical
SF Playhouse Stage 2 (533 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94102)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Let It Snow! have expired.
The last date listed for Let It Snow! was Saturday December 19, 2009 / 3:00pm.
Currently at SF Playhouse Stage 2:
Private Parts: A Solo Show by Graham Gremore
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Bay Area writer/performer Graham Gremore presents his solo show Private Parts, hilarious true stories about family dysfunction, disappointment, and his dramatic escape from the Midwest. This evening of stories and songs reveal Graham's life, including his emotionally unstable mother, absent-minded academic father, some woman who died, his third grade teacher who was an idiot, the family dog that committed suicide, and more. If you're lucky, there might even be nudity. But don't count on it. Private Parts had its premiere at the SF Playhouse in 2011, and received rave reviews. Learn More
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Free popcorn was also handed out when we were there. Drinks/cookies are sold at intermissions.
Goldstar Member Reviews
James
Improv = spontaneous cleverness. I loved this company's Bollywood Puppet show last year - it was clever and spontaneous. This was NOT clever, and so much of the performance appeared to be using practiced interactions/techniques and merely squeezing in words that matched the audience input. Very disappointing.Written on Nov 30 2009
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MacKenzie
This was a fun event. I went with my bestie, who is big into improv. I'm not normally a huge fan of improv comedy, particularly long form, but this was a good troupe.Written on Nov 29 2009
It's a musical, in case you can't tell. This time around, it was about Mercer Island, Washington, home of the 400 person marching band and gorilla mascot.
To crib some lines from my bestie's review:
"We got to see the travails of two Mercer Island teenagers dealing with the stress of working at the Lion's Club Christmas tree lot and Casa D's, the social ostracism that comes with *not* being in the band, even if they secretly are the Mercer Island Gorilla, and two overly eager engineering parents. And questionably the best moment of the night, a marching band number where the "band director" kept asking the other 5 cast members to change formations long past the number of formations you can get from 5 people.
And would you believe it, the brother and sister resolved their differences and marched together as two gorillas at the Christmas parade. It even snowed."
The standout members of the cast were Trish Tillman and Scott Keck. At times, the ensemble was not quite in tune with each other, both in the literal singing sense and the improvisational sense. You get six members of a ten member company putting on your show, so it's a tad touch and go about how well that 60% meshes.
I wouldn't go again, but I'm very glad I went. My bestie is trolling our social group for a second showing.
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Steeler Girl
We were at the Saturday matinee and enjoyed the show. The way they worked in the audience input into the show was funny. The only thing was they did run some of the material into the ground. I guess the title was a little misleading, as I thought it would be more holiday themed. But, in the end, we had a good time and the cast was very talented.Written on Dec 07 2009
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More Information About Let It Snow!
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Description
Celebrate the holidays with an improvised musical, Un-Scripted style! Returning for a fourth year, Let It Snow is a holiday story set in someone’s real hometown—maybe yours! This full-length, two-hour musical is filled with Broadway-style singing and dancing... all created by the performers as the show unfolds. No songbooks, no choreography, no scripts. Like snowflakes, no two improvised shows are the same. Let us chase away your winter doldrums and put you in the holiday spirit!
Some Frequently Asked Questions about Let It Snow:
- Yes, this is the fourth year they've done Let It Snow, but they've never done the same show twice. They have never even featured the same town twice. It’s always new, every night.
- No, the show is not about any specific holiday, but is meant to capture the feeling of the season as a whole. Although, they did do a show once that featured a town’s annual Halloween cross-dressers ball. (Madrid, NM, performed 11/26/2005).
- Yes, they also did a show once about the Indian holiday Diwali (Fairfield, IA, performed 11/24/2007). So yes, occasionally a specific holiday creeps in there.
- No, you don’t have to wear parkas, scarves, or mittens to come to the show. Although you can if you want to.
- Yes, the show is improvised. They don’t have any scripts, songbooks, or carefully rehearsed dance numbers. Every word of dialogue, every song, and every dance number is made up as they go.
- Yes, they will have free popcorn before the show and $1 fresh baked cookies at intermission.
About the Ticket Supplier: Un-Scripted Theater Company
The Un-Scripted Theater Company's mission is to create smart,
innovative, and entertaining improvised theater that delights their
audiences and advances the art and craft of improvisation. Based in
San Francisco, they do a full season of completely improvised shows,
ranging from short sketches to full-length plays and even entire
musicals.