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HISTORY April 2009 - New Comic Material Premieres At Northwood High School
NOTE: Several Of the Sketches Were Later Published by Contemporary Drama Services in Hell's Library and fifteen m TV parodies created by students for students  [available now at www.contemporarydrama.com]

The Vatican City Olympic Team

HELL’s LIBRARY!

Smells Like Cafeteria Food? (a quiz show)

THUNDER VALLEY 28751 (a reality show)

And more comic material to finally premiere

SEE PRESS RELEASE BELOW

WHY ARE THESE STUDENTS HAPPY?

Pictured L to R: John Kilmer, Peter Walderhaug, Sara Mozersky,

Josh Rosen, Leah Solomon and Liam Brennan

 

THE SHOW THEY HAVE WRITTEN

WILL FINALLY PREMIERE

SERIOUSLY FUNNY:

A Comedy Club Cabaret

Directed by

Harry M. Bagdasian & Beck Krefting

With an assist from Austen Villemez

Thurs., April 16 and Fri. April 17, 2009 – 7:30 PM

NHS Media Center / Comedy Cabaret sponsored by the NHS PTSA

And supported by the Under 21 Fund of Montgomery County

$3.00 students / $5.00 all others

Contact Harry M. Bagdasian, Director -  hbagdasian@aol.com

or go to www.ourlaughingmatters.com

SEE PRESS RELEASE BELOW

THE COMEDY CLUB at Northwood presents

Liam Brennan, Conor Brennan, Avery Chiasson, Emma Glaser,

Noely Jacobs, Matthias Kelderman, John Kilmer,

Kady Kilmer, Sara Mozersky, Jody Mozersky,

Jonathan Rabinovich, Michael Rine Josh Rosen,

Christine Scullen, Leah Solomon, James Syverson,

A. J. Walderhaug, Peter Walderhaug and Maryanne Weaver in

 

SERIOUSLY FUNNY:

A Comedy Club Cabaret

 

New Comic Sketches & Videos written by

Peter Walderhaug, Austen Villemez, Leah Solomon,

Rachel Solomon, Josh Rosen, Sara Mozersky,

John Kilmer, Liam Brennan, and Harry M. Bagdasian

And Song Parodies written & performed by Josh Rosen

Directed by

Harry M. Bagdasian & Beck Krefting

With an assist from Austen Villemez

Thurs., April 16 and Fri. April 17, 2009 – 7:30 PM

NHS Media Center / Comedy Cabaret sponsored by the NHS PTSA

And supported by the Under 21 Fund of Montgomery County

$3.00 students / $5.00 all others

Contact Harry M. Bagdasian, Director -  hbagdasian@aol.com

or go to www.ourlaughingmatters.com

 to see the performance program
CLICK ON THE TAB "NHS Program '09" up top

The Vatican City Olympic Team

HELL’s LIBRARY!

Smells Like Cafeteria Food? (a quiz show)

THUNDER VALLEY 28751 (a reality show)

And more comic material to finally premiere at Northwood High School
 

Twenty new comedy sketches, eight short comic videos & three original comic song parodies will premiere when the Comedy Club at Northwood finally presents “SERIOUSLY FUNNY: A Comedy Club Cabaret” on Thursday, April 16 & Friday, April 17th at 7:30 pm in the media center at Northwood High School.  Tickets are available at the door for $3.00 students, $5.00 for all others.  More information is at www.ourlaughingmatters.com.

 

Originally schedule to premiere last month, the Comedy Club ensemble voted to postpone the show after four students in the eighteen-member cast were declared academically ineligible to perform in the show.  A majority of the students felt they had put a great deal of time into creating and rehearsing the material and did not want to offer a watered down public performance.  The show was, therefore, postponed until everyone returned from Spring break, the grading period was over and the four students had brought their grades up and were deemed academically eligible to rejoin the ensemble.

 

For the first time in Comedy Club history, the show will feature original comic songs.  Josh Rosen has written and will perform “Taco Bell Canon,” “First Kiss” and “High School Dance.”

 

In this, the Comedy Club program’s 14th production, the material ranges from game shows … Peter Walderhaug’s “Are You Smarter than A Fifth Grader?” & Josh Rosen’s “Smells Like Cafeteria Food To Me” … to TV parodies like Leah & Rachel Solomon’s “Hell’s Library” (a takeoff on “Hell’s Kitchen), Harry Bagdasian’s Thunder Valley 28751 (a takeoff on reality TV shows) and John Kilmer’s “Student Types.”  Several sketches satirize school life including Sara Mozersky’s “The Science Class Safety Quiz”, Liam Brennan & John Kilmer’s “No Pass? Back To Class,” and Josh Rosen’s “Teacher Types.”  Comedy videos include Josh Rosen’s “The Vatican City Olympic Team” and Sara Mozersky’s “School Safety Top Hot Line.”  There’s also a sketch by Peter Walderhaug in which a young student only speaks to her mother using “I.M. Speak” and a sketch by Leah & Rachel Solomon that uses one word: “dude.”

 

Directed by Comedy Club co-founder Harry M. Bagdasian and Beck Krefting, with an assist from comedian/writer Austen Villemez, the Comedy CLub ensemble for this year’s show includes Liam Brennan, Conor Brennan, Avery Chiasson, Emma Glaser, Noely Jacobs, Matthias Kelderman, John Kilmer, Kady Kilmer, Jessica Linger, Sara Mozersky, Jody Mozersky, Jonathan Rabinovich, Michael Rine, Josh Rosen, Christine Scullen, Leah Solomon, James Syverson, A. J. Walderhaug, Peter Walderhaug and Maryanne Weaver.  Costumes are by Tish Hall and props by Robbie McEwen.

 

“SERIOUSLY FUNNY: A Comedy Club Cabaret” will be preformed at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17 at 7:30 PM in the Northwood High School Media Center.  Tickets are $3.00 for students and $5.00 for all others.  

FOR MORE PROGRAM DETAILS
CLICK ON THE TAB "NHS Program '09" up top 


THE COMEDY ACADEMY, INC., a non-profit organization, strives to give artistic voice to young people through writing and performing original sketch comedy material under the direction of theater professionals.  Encouraging teens to use comedy to explore contemporary issues relevant to their lives and to examine the humor in life situations and experiences is TCA’s aim.  The students often draw from their own experiences thus giving their comedy a unique perspective.   Over TCA’s 17-year history, more than 500 middle school, high school, and college age students have been involved in its workshops and performances. 

The most unique aspect of the Comedy Academy is the worldwide accessibility of Comedy Academy sketch material.  The finished scripts from every TCA presentation has been published, wholly or in part, by Contemporary Drama Services (a division of Meriwether Publishing LTD).  Through their distribution network, this original comedy material is available to schools and youth groups around the world.  Since the first publication in 1996, almost 50,000 books have been sold.  To date, CDS has leased the rights to Comedy Academy material to over 4,000 schools and venues in every state in the U.S., throughout Canada, and in Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Guam, and the United Arab Emirates.  That these humorous sketches, written by local teens about contemporary issues in their lives, can translate across cultural boundaries and national borders speaks to the universality of the coming-of-age years in many regions and countries.

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