BASSPROV (with SNL alumni TIM KAZURINSKY)
Main Stage @ Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport
Friday April 27, 8pm
Tickets: $25, at the Athenaeum Theatre box office; Ticketmaster: 312-902-1500; and on-line at www.ticketmaster.com (enter "Chicago Improv Festival")
BASSPROV is a two person longform improvisational comedy show. The main characters Donny Weaver (played by Mark Sutton) and Earl Hinkle (played by Joe Bill) are two middle-aged central Indiana blue-collar guys that spend their free time fishing and talking about sports. The show begins with an audience suggestion of a current event and "something you can stick your fingers in" and from there a completely improvised dialogue is created while interconnecting events from the characters lives and the suggestions, all while the two men fish.
Their show has been performed throughout the United States and internationally at festivals, clubs, and colleges. They have been awarded the Nichols & May Award for Comedy Duo of the Year from the Chicago Improv Festival and Chicago's Best Comedy Group by Bass Ale. Over the past five years at CIF, the following actor/improvisers have sat in as performers with BASSPROV: Dan Castellaneta; Mo Collins; Emo Phillips; Horatio Sanz; and Fred Willard.
This year their special guest is SNL alumni, Police Academy star, tv and movie actor/writer and true Chicago comedy favorite Tim Kazurinsky.
BASSPROV:
Joe Bill
Mark Sutton
Productions