so jai and i are at this improv gig. it’s a full house and we’re all cracking up the whole time... ’cept jai. he’s trying to look cool. you know, aloof. so they start doing this number about a loved-crazed labradoodle. well jai’s crazy aunt’s got this giant labradoodle and jai is always stuck walking that dang dog. so the story is getting really nuts, jai’s taking a huge gulp of his soda. well ‘mr. cool’ starts giggling so hard he’s blowing soda out of his nose all over his new ‘mr. cool’ designer shirt. well the improv guys see jai and start making him a part of the skit, so jai jumps up and...

ARTISTS & PERFORMERS: THEATRE/COMEDY/SPOKEN WORD Actors Comedy Lab Presents 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 & 10:00 Highway Building Auditorium, Morgan & Wilmington Streets Sponsored by Lunsford & Strickland, P.A. Media Sponsor: The Sanford Herald “Mere Mortals” from Mere Mortals by David Ives, “Sure Thing” from All In The Timing by David Ives; and “Supreme Beings Create The World” from Parallel Lives by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. www.actorscomedy.com Richard Negri 8:00-11:00 Christ Church Parrish Hall Sponsored by Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP Media Sponsor: Business Leader Poetry and jazz combine: sax virtuoso Howard Mall escorts the beat of Richard Negri’s words. The two appeared at the Miami Jazz Festival as warm up act for The Neville Brothers, and opened SunFest 2002. Negri’s credits include “Meditations on a Downbeat, Words Spoken Through Jazz,” a critically acclaimed mix of straight-ahead and Be-Bop jazz, and “Pen to Paper & Other Blues,” a disk of spoken-word and jazz. www.richardnegri.com Paperhand Puppet Intervention 8:00-10:00 200 block, Fayetteville Street Mall Sponsored by Golden Corral Media Sponsor: Triangle Tribune & All New Power 750 AM WAUG Celebrate the glorious web of life. Join the cast of fantastical creatures and beasts, including The Green Man, a 15- foot tall nature spirit, The Sun and The Moon, Autumn Trees and a giant stilt bird. Flow Circus 7:00 North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Auditorium Media Sponsor: Star 102.9 FM Glow-in-the-dark juggling, gravity-defying tricks and balloon sculptures of Paul Miller. www.flowcircus.com Transactors Improv Company 7:00, 8:30, 9:30 & 10:30 Fletcher Opera Theatre, BTI Center for the Performing Arts Sponsored by BellSouth Media Sponsor: Metro Magazine Improvisational theatre begins with suggestions from the audience: whether politics or lunch. Imagine a fantastical journey through time, historic events colored by your whim, or a full-length musical with songs, characters and script composed on the spot with your input. Formed in 1983 at The ArtSchool in Carrboro, NC, this comedy team has earned a national reputation, performed on National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and appeared from Montreal to Colorado Springs. “Take Kleenex. You’ll laugh till you weep.” www.transactors.org Wrights of Passage: A Theatrical Celebration of a Century of Flight 2:30, 4:30 & 7:00 Daniels Auditorium, NC Museum of History Sponsored by Seby B. Jones Family Media Sponsor: Carolina Parent This drama tells the story of the passion and focus of Orville and Wilber Wright as they prepared for their first powered flight in 1903 from Kitty Hawk, NC. The two brothers construct an abstract replica of the famous flyer on stage while revealing their biographies and re-living the poetry of their discoveries, failures, achievements and successes. www.ebzb.org FNR © · artsplosure · all rights reserved | hosting by celito.net