The American Theater Company (ATC) is bringing their late night improv show series back. A bunch of improv vets and cool monologists, Saturday nights at 10:30 (but not every Saturday night... uh... I don't know which ones... does that help?). It's especially fun to get to improvise on whatever set the theater has constructed for each current run of plays.

I've sat-in with the show in the past and was lucky to be asked to play in the first show back. The monologist was Jim Jacobs, the co-writer of the musical 'Grease.' Apparently, the original stage play is a bit darker than the movie, and the childhood stories that inspired the play, darker still. Let's just say one of the tamer stories was about a game called Splooie, which was basically a circle jerk for money.

It was a wonderful night of crazy storytelling and fairly filthy improv scenes.

The ATC is remounting Grease soon, a version truer to the original spirit. I'm definitely going to have to check it out.