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News of Mobb Line’s 2nd place finish in the South Regional got a nice write-up on the CIT website.  Here’s what they had to say:

“In their first year in CIT, the surprising Mobb Line from Savannah College of Art & Design pulled off an upset by taking second place over the south regional powerhouse team and two time former South Regional champs, Theatre Strike Force from University of Florida who came in third place.

It was a super close finals as the top three teams won first place votes by the 7 judges, but with 4 first place votes, Improv Athens did win and will play in the CIT Nationals.”

To see the entire post, click on this link to their website: http://www.chicagoimprovfestival.org/web/ccc_home.php

The Mobb Line will be performing at the SCAD Museum of Art Theater on Thursday, January 26 at 8pm.

Admittance is free!  But, bring a friend and you both get in for half price!!!   The show only lasts about 45 minutes, but the hilarity will live on forever…

Below is a link to a recording of the finals at the South Regional Competition of the Chicago Improv Festival’s College Tournament.  The Mobb Line performance begins 23 minutes into the recording.  The Mobb Line’s performance garnered 2nd place in the competition and they are in the running for a wild card slot at Nationals.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19919350

The Mobb Line took the South Regional competition of the Chicago Improv Festival’s College Tournament by storm on Saturday.  They won their preliminary round and advanced to the finals where they faced 4 other groups, including perennial powerhouses Theater Strike Force from the University of Florida and defending champion Improv Athens from the University of Georgia.  In the surprise of the night, Mobb Line upset Theater Strike Force for a second place finish!  This was SCAD Improv’s first year in the tournament (and only our second year in existence) and we firmly established ourselves as a major player on the college improv scene.

There’s more!  The second place finish has put Mobb Line in the running for a wild card spot in the National competition taking place in Chicago in March.  That announcement won’t be made until mid-February, so stay tuned to see if Mobb Line will go to the Nationals in their very first year!!!

Over the course of 24 hours, Mobb Line gave three outstanding performances (with half of the members sick, no less): Friday night at SCAD Atlanta, Saturday afternoon in the tournament prelims and Saturday night in the tournament finals.  As luck would have it, all three performances were recorded and we hope to have those available for online viewing in the not-too-distant future.

Congratulations to Mobb Line and everyone involved with SCAD Improv – this is a terrific step forward for our program!

This was a huge weekend for SCAD Improv.  In addition to Mobb Line’s performances in Atlanta, alum Maddie O’Hara made her NYC improv debut with Gotham City Improv on Friday night and the “F” in Funny troupe gave two performances at Muse Arts Warehouse.  Congratulations to all!

Maddie O’Hara, a 2011 SCAD performing arts alum, will be performing at Gotham City Improv in New York on Friday, January 20 – GO MADDIE!

Ralf Jean-Pierre, a 2007 SCAD alum is embarking on an ambitious theater project: one-man Shakespeare show bike tour.  One of his kickoff performances will be in Savannah on Tuesday, January 17th at the Muse Arts Warehouse at 8pm.  I urge you to check out this fascinating idea and support a SCAD alum.  For more info, visit Ralf’s blog: thespearebearer.tumblr.com

To hear him talk about his inspiring story, check out this short video: the-speare-bearer-one-man-shakespeare-on-a-bike-us

From a Zaxby’s Restaurant.  Photo courtesy of George.

This week’s rehearsal will be Thursday 6pm- 9pm. I have scheduled it earlier due to another rehearsal that I have later that evening. At that rehearsal we will be discussing a final rehearsal schedule for the weeks to come based on what day and time works for everyone. Last quarter we met every Thursday night from 9-11:30, but this quarter I was thinking we could have it on Wednesdays (so not to conflict with opening nights of shows) and have it earlier from 6:00-9:00. Again, we can discuss all of this on Thursday. This is about you guys and what works best for you all as a team.