Death By Improv

…..or at least across across a section of the Mid-Atlantic.

We’ve got some exciting news-in the next month or so, you can potentially see DBI 4 times in 4 different states.

First off, we’re at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival on February 16, at the Arts Center West End at 8pm. If you’re in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area (or, as we locals* call it, “the Triangle”), you can get tickets right here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2730142931 Seriously, though, if you’re in the area, I highly recommend checking the festival out. It’s a tremendous amount of fun.

Next stop on our World Tour 2012 is a return to Queens. Last summer, we were thrilled to perform in the Scrimmage, a super fun show with the MishMash! Well, we’re going back to compete against the MishMash! once more, and this time, I promise, there will be casualties!** The show is at 6pm on March 11 at the Creek and the Cave  in Long Island City.

Also, thrilled to be making our Philadelphia debut! We’re performing as a part of Polygon Comedy at L’Etage in Philadelphia on March 13. The show starts at 8pm, and we’re performing with 3 other teams to be determined. Barring another yellow fever outbreak, it should be a good time.

Finally, we’re back home for our regular spot at the Main Street Theater on March 30 at 8pm. We’ll have the DBI Improv Foundations Class under the tutelage of Professor Timothy Norek doing their class show. And we’re back just a week later on April 6 for our April show at the Main Street Theater. Stayed tuned for (hopefully) a really cool announcement about the April show.

* In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve spent maybe 5 days, total, in North Carolina in my entire life.

** No, there won’t.

Before I joined Death By Improv, I was a big fan of Death By Improv (which is not to say I’m not still a fan, I am, but it would be really egotistical of me to come out and say “I’m a huge fan of what I do”, even if I am. I’m a prick, but not that much of a prick”). Y’see, I go way back with DBI, all the way back to the magical autumn of 2004. It was a momentous time for our nation-the Montreal Expos announced that they were moving to Washington for the 2005 season, Belarus approved a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits, China had won a remarkable 141 medals at the Paralympic Games, future DBI member Michelle Baker was a high school freshman (Christ I’m old), future other DBI member Eric Lipton was preparing for his 32nd birthday (but not THAT old), and I was entering my second semester at Middlesex County College.

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If you’re anything like the headline to this post, you’ve been wondering what’s going on with DBI?  Well boy howdy, I’ll tell you what’s up with DBI!

First of all, last week we had our January show at the Main Street Theater. If you missed it, you’re shit out of luck…except if you have a working internet connection, which, if you’re reading this, there is a 75% chance you do! Because if you do, you can watch the show over an internet website! Just look a couple inches below for the sweet, sweet improvised goodness!

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Assuming the world doesn’t end, here’s some noteworthy events taking place in 2012, which is now less than a year away:

January

• January 13 – January 22 – The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
• January 13 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• January 31 – 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13 km × 13 km × 33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,780,000 km; 16,640,000 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on February 17, 1996.^[5]

February

• February 6 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia & New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.
• February 16 – Death By Improv LIVE at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival!

March

• March 30  – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater

April

• April 6 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• April 17 – The United States will cede wartime control of the military of South Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.^[6]

May

• May 4- Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo is to be held in Yeosu, South Korea.
• May 20 – Annular solar eclipse. Path of annularity runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.

June

• June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
• June 8 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• June 18 – June 23 – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth.^[7]

July

• July 6 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• July 27 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 19:30 UTC, 20:30 BST.^[8] London will become the first city in history to host the Olympic Games three times.

August

• August 6 – August 20 – Mars Science Laboratory also known as the Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars.^[9]
• August 10 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater
• August 12 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

September

• September 28 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater

October

• October 12 – Death By Improv LIVE at the Main Street Theater