CPL's First Show

Note: For all those who instantly know what CPL stands for - congratulations you've been paying attention, bravo. For the rest of you lazy slobs - CPL stands for the troupe I'm in over at CIC: Counter-Productive Lover.

Anyway as the title suggests we had our very first show finally. It took place Friday night at our home theater (we're one of I think roughly three house teams there).
All in all I have to say I am very happy with how the show went considering it was our first - there were a lot of really fun moments (both for us and the audience) and of course a few kinks that we need to work out. Really the only two major complaints I have about our performance was the fact that early on one or two members got a little jumpy with the edit (cut a couple scenes short - editing before they really got going) and then the fact that our lighting person gave us a very poorly timed black out (which was about 4 minutes early too).

The first part (the Speedy Gonazlaes impersonation on the edits) is fairly easy to chalk up to first performance jitters - as they came on really big laugh lines (aka the default edit points for improvisers who don't entirely feel the rhythm of a scene) - and the second wasn't even in our control (though really ... the light person called it four lines into a scene that hadn't even reached the punch yet (and those lines were clearly in the process of setting up a nice call back to early on if they had just waited another minute).

We had a great crowd and heard afterwards that the higher ups in the theater were extremely impressed about our show - apparently most of the audience left still talking about some parts - so go us.
I think the funniest thing though is that we were not nearly as impressed with ourselves as the audience and even the guy giving us notes seemed to be (note: again for those not paying attention I mentioned in the last post our Director couldn't make the show and so had a friend sit in watching). The reason for this is because of the level of work we've done in the last two practices - we know we are easily capable of so much more, so while this was a fun show (and fairly good for our first ever performance) in our eyes ... we all are setting our goals much higher.