Reverse 5 Boys Estivate. Bombardo Girls Captivate.

We all know that estivation is the reverse of hibernation.  No doi.  Well, not technically the reverse, maybe more like the inverse of it, or something.  We didn’t mean to get into semantics here.  Hang on, semantics is the right word, right?  (Can you tell Ben isn’t writing these anymore?)

Look, we’re just trying to be clever about the hook for this week’s show because we have a good one.  Show.  Good show.  A pretty good hook too, I guess - have we ruined it?  We’ll save it here with a picture of a sleeping puppy:

What we’re trying to say is that Reverse 5 is about to go into a deep slumber for the rest of summer.  But don’t fret my pets!  THE SCENE will keep going strong until we get back in the hands of some capable friends until we return in the fall.

This week BOMBARDO is destined for improvised one-act greatness and we couldn’t be more excited.  Emily Askin, Chelsea Clarke, Emily Felt, Marcy Jarreau, Beth Newell, Aubrey Plaza, and Erica Warnock are known for their special brand of improv comedy that’s “weird,” “psychadelic,” and “full of cats.”  Cats like these:

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE w. Bombardo
Saturday, July 17th
7PM at The PIT
Tickets (bring your student ID card from any improv theater and get in FREE!)

Ben’s Last Reverse 5 Show Special: $5!

Ben’s leaving New York forever! He couldn’t make it here, and therefore can’t make it anywhere.

Denying-the-antecedent errors aside, you’ve got one last chance to see the current iteration of Reverse 5 this Saturday. Don’t come and you make Ben’s shit list, you suppurating asshole! And there’s more:

Get your tickets online and use the discount code fireworks for $5 tickets!

Are you a PIT student? Fuck $5 tickets. Bring your ID and tickets are free. You’re welcome, you suppurating asshole!!!

(Oh and if that’s not enough, come for awesome special guest FRANCE —the Traveling Wilburys of New York improv, except all of them are Jeff Lynne, which if you don’t take as a compliment, FUCK YOU, YOU SUPPURATING ETC.!)


Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, July 3
7:00pm at the PIT
w/ France

Johnny Cash Money and Reverse 5 are Men

Men: we mow lawns, drink from tumblers, and smell like musk. We shape our facial hair like our favorite actors. We shout at other men.

We like pulling things out of our wallets, especially money. We think of our mothers while treating women with respect.

When there’s a heavy thing to lift we grunt, but quietly. If there’s a jerk in the room we eye each other like, “can you believe this jerk?”

We do not know why undershirts get pit stains.

We want to do pull-ups on the subway, but don’t.

We never cry, except when we do, and it’s terrible.

We are men and we like improv. On Saturday, June 19, man-groups Johnny Cash Money and Reverse 5 will take testosterone and make testosteroneade at the People’s Improv Theater.

Johnny Cash Money features the brains behind LandlineTV and other cool projects. They host a monthly show at the Astoria Beer Garden and they are: Michael Antonucci, Paul Briganti, Jaime Castillo, Andrew Ford, and Chris Mann.

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, June 19
7:00pm at the PIT

Tickets

Brown's Mumbler: Shows that you should do or see.

Reverse Five at the PIT is a great show that you have a chance to perform in. The show is Monoscene themed and every team that plays is supposed to do one. Branch out from your normal montage and do this show! Monoscene is weird to me. Part of me feels that it is super easy, but if you really…

Oh man, a plug! Thanks Corey, we think the monoscene is weird, too. THE SCENE (feat. Charlie Carrot) happens this Saturday at 7. Tickets.

Monsters of Scene: Charlie Carrot and Reverse 5

Whither Frankenberry? Whence Scylla and Charybdis? Vampires and zombies are nice, yeah, sure, but what about those lesser-known Satan’s hellspawn, like this guy?

Terrifying, right? Not all monsters get boffo box office and professional PR. To help support endangered monsters, Reverse 5 will invite a truly abhorrent creature into the cavernous PIT, thereby spitting directly into the face of God.

Charlie Carrot is a five-headed mono-beast from the depths of UCB’s stage and indie training grounds. It’s a sin-against-nature-super-group made up of some of our favorite improvisers:

Dom Manzolillo
James Dwyer
Dru Johnston
Rob Hugel
Josh Patten

Can such a supergroup survive the monoscene? (Scientists say it can’t be done!) Will Charlie Carrot’s insane bent for destruction level the charming, bustling metropolis of THE SCENE? Join us Saturday, June 5 to find out, and possibly get eaten or penetrated with tentacles or something. I don’t know. This post kind of got away from me.

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, June 5
7:00pm at the PIT
w/ Charlie Carrot

Tickets.

Rafael: lover, fighter, comedians

Rafael was the best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I mean yeah, Leonardo would always pay the pizza guy, Donatello could build pretty good bongs out of the stuff you might find in a sewer, and Michelangelo occasionally did not make you want to punch him in the nuts. But Rafael kicked ass, took names, and he did it with a pair of miniature tridents. He had the temperament of a six-year-old, which of course we all were.

But Rafael was also the worst Renaissance master. To begin with, he stuck all his stuff on the walls of the Vatican where no non-millionaire could see it. He also adamantly refused to paint sexy naked biblical chicks even after the pope said it was OK! Instead he painted every wrinkled old philosophizing ballsack that ever came out of Greece. Christ, the guy couldn’t even paint a solid non-crappy dragon, something even a six-year-old artist manages to figure out. Up yours, Rafael!

But the most relevant modern-day Rafael would have to be the terrific improv group made up of Dan Black, Joe Burns, Don Fanelli, Cathryn Mudon, Hunter Nelson, and Andrew Yurman-Glaser. They’re playing at THE SCENE with Reverse 5 this Saturday. Buy your tickets now, before the pope outlaws them or they’re defeated by the Shredder. Jokes!

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, May 15
7:00pm at the PIT

Tickets

Sayonara Craigslist

Don’t you think we are ready for the next step?  You practically live here as it is and we’ll save so much on rent.  Let’s move in together.

This Saturday the Landlords move in with Reverse 5 for some improvised cohabitation.   

The Landlords are Zack Phillips, Natasha Rothwell and Jason Saenz  

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, May 1
7:00PM at The PIT
w/ The Landlords
Tickets

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for an unsurprisingly creepy exploration of Floridian swamp hootenannies, mythical she-beasts, and feuding trappers. And a special thanks to The Fritz for their one-act barbershop quintet.

See y’all May 1, same reverse time, same reverse place.

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Let’s Fritz again, like we did last summer.

You’ve heard the hit single. You’ve seen the hot video. You’ve smelled the top-shelf fragrance and bought the Happy Meal toy. Now learn the moves!

World’s hottest dance craze-cum-improv sensation The Fritz is coming to THE SCENE. They’re gonna shimmy, jive, and mash potato their way into your jaded theatergoing hearts.

The Fritz is Corey Brown, Shannon Dry, Bethany Hall, Lauren Hunter, Connor McClure, and John Trowbridge.

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, April 17
7:00pm at the PIT
w/ The Fritz
TICKETS

Members of Baby Wants Candy! Members of Baby Wants Candy! Members of Baby Wants Candy!

We couldn’t even think of a clever way to tell you, we’re so excited. Members of the “best comedy in Chicago” (Chicago magazine) and “best visiting comedy ensemble” (TimeOut NY) will be gracing the PIT’s stage, where they’ll “set the bar so high”—you know what, just read their press clippings for yourself.

You already know Baby Wants Candy makes incredible, high-flying musical improv, and that to watch some of them perform the difficult monoscene form would be akin to watching the graceful falcon mate with the powerful bald eagle, mid-air, during a solar eclipse.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to have members of BWC join Reverse 5 for the most rare and magical THE SCENE yet. We hope to see you there.

Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, April 3
7:00pm at the PIT
w/ members of Baby Wants Candy

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