By the time you’re reading this, I’ve done my advanced show, and am probably still out at The Dark Room [the bar across the street from the Groundlings] with my friends.*
[*Now that this is months later, that’s probably not the case. haha Anyway, I guess pretend it’s Saturday night, November 23rd, while you’re reading this.]
Tomorrow I’ll give you the low down of how everything went. But for tonight, I’ll just say how I’m trying to feel going into it.
We had a super fun class this morning. [And then I had a Lyft drive home with the most hilarious woman with her and I volleying joke after joke back and forth to each other about how we got the advice that’s the title of this post, but I was cleeeeeearly not following it because she could feel my nervousness bahahahaha.]
Our amazing, wonderful improv instructor – whom I really adore – told us today that we should have some form of this sentence going through our minds before we go out there tonight.
There’s a bit of pressure on the advanced show, because it’s a big part of whether you pass or not. And everybody wants to pass, of course!
This is the final level of improv at The Groundlings! If you make it past this, you get on the “performance track.” You get to perform on the main Groundlings stage! You get to write! You’re one step closer to the Sunday Company!
So, it feels like there’s a lot on the line – or at least there is in this lil’ world of ours.
So, our teacher said that to put us at ease and help us out.
I am in a DOPE class. We have had the most fun. Everyone is so nice and SO FUNNY.
Can’t wait for the show!