One Rainy Night At The Jam Factory
Slow early ticket sales followed by a late rush of fun-seekers escaping the terrible weather resulted in a nearly full house.
It was terrific to welcome Neil, the troupe’s founder, into the audience to see the show before he makes the shift to Auckland. The Honest Liars will all miss him and thank him for all his work setting up and developing the team.
And another sad farewell was said to a wonderful player, Melissa, who is moving to South Island. Melissa’s passion for Improv shone through with her behind the scenes work along with stellar performances over the years. Take care, Melissa and thank you for all your work and encouragement. Your passion for Improv is contagious.
The players were warmed up and ready, and so on this special night, above the sound of the hammering rain, Jon the emcee introduced the cast, and it was on with the fun!
Starting with “Laugh Elimination”, the group got the crowd warmed up for the rest of the evening.
The next game, “Pocket Note,” featured Matt, Sally and Kim. It involved planning a wedding that turned into a complicated ménage à trois. Applying audience suggestions like “hit me baby one more time” and “why are you naked?” quite a story developed.
Straight into “My Movie”, where audience suggestions of letters resulted in great movie titles like Zebra Algorithms and Zamboni Accident- yes, that’s right- the slowest disaster movie ever made.
Kim was late for work with Brett, Sally and Matt miming audience suggestions for why she was late. Her dog being too cuddly resulted in Sally on all fours giving a great impression of a cute doggy while Matt had the difficult task of miming the word diesel.
“The Cube” was played by Brett, Sally, Kelly and Melissa. It involved Kelly as the slowest tradie ever, taking two years to dig out a swimming pool with her special spade and Melissa and Sally as seniors growing weed in Tauranga to help with arthritis pain in the form of ‘special baking’ that was ever so popular.
After an interval so brief it didn’t happen – On with the rest of the show!!
“Film Director”, played by Melissa Kelly and Kim with director Jon, saw the acting out of a horror movie in a rest home located in Briscoes. Plenty of bargains were to be had alongside some great spooky side effects.
The resident sign language expert Kelly was on hand to interpret an interview held by Matt and Brett on the subject of teaching Llamas to Yodel. Unfortunately, the expert “Dr Lie-down” meant that Kelly had a real workout while interpreting the interview. Full marks for Kelly’s stamina; surely she will need some power aid for the next one!
“The Dating Game” saw Matt as the lucky Batchelor selecting from a delicious cannibal played by Kim, Kelly, was a conspiracy theorist who believed in aliens and Sally a Teletubby. Kudos to Matt for correctly guessing the bachelorettes’ real identities
In her last ever performance with Honest Liars, Melissa vamped it up with the ultimate femme fatale in “Film noir” with Jon as her co-star.
As usual in the “Film Noir” segment, you could cut the sexual tension with… well, a sledgehammer. Too hot for the frier, Melissa as the Maven in Maccas could not temp the guy in the fries section.
And one last special game. It was beautiful to invite Neil on stage to join the cast in the hilarious “Themed Restaurant”. A delightful menu of dumpster diving specialities was presented to Jon and Neil by the entire cast.
And so ended the evening. Emotions ran high at the farewell to dear friends Neil and Melissa, who helped set up and develop Honest Liars into a group that can stand proud in the improv comedy world.
Thank you, Neil and Melissa, for all your work and all the laughter.
Thanks to players
| Melissa Matt Kim |
Sally Kelly Brett |
Thanks to the Crew:
Sue and Fee and Caleb on sound.
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NEXT SHOW – NEW ATTRACTION!!!!
We welcome musical guests, improvised jam band, Stone Immortal.
They will kick the night off at 6PM with live music. Bring the gang for a night a live music and huge laughs. Tickets only $15
The next show at the Jam Factory is on Sunday 11th July 7 pm
Book your tickets and join the players for loads of laughs. NOTE: We are BYO!
1st Sunday of every Month
Jam Factory, Historic Village
Show Starts: 7 p.m.
