Noo Yawk Tawk[1]was anoff-Broadwayshow conceived and directed byRichmond Shepardwhich played atThe Village Gate Theaterfrom 1988 to 1991. It featured members of animprovisational comedytroupe founded by Mr. Shepard. All performances were entirely improvised. Characters may have been repeated but never the sketches or the dialogue. The audience set the conditions for each improvisation so every performance was different. The sketches were based on improvisational games which included poems, songs, a fictitious foreign movie and a scene which included the first and last line all given by audience members. The cast members used their skills of foreign accents, dialects, singing, mime and writing.
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In 1991, the group branched out and another troupe was formed to perform at theTop Of The Gate,a club run byManny Roth,former manager of theVillage Gate.Roth persuadedStan Taffelto create and take charge of the new group.Speakeasyplayed to packed houses until 1993 and moved to other venues before Taffel joined the off-Broadway company ofThe News In Revue.Three members of the troupe, Stan Taffel,Miguel SierraandKim Ceawere hired for a new animated series, The Toysters, which had a run of thirteen episodes and was seen in foreign countries.
Cast
edit- Richmond Shepard
- Stan Taffel
- Marc Kudisch
- Debra Wilson
- Indira Stefanianna Christopherson
- Eric Douglas
- Bonnie Comley
- Ken Dashow
- Doug Katsaros
- Garry Goodrow
- Nola Roeper
- Michael Cooke
- Miguel Sierra
- Kim Cea
- Rafael D’Lugoff
- Lili Schlossberg
- Jessie Janet Richards
- Pauline Frommer
References
edit- ^Stephen Holden (1988-12-02)."Where Audiences Participate In Improvisational Comedy".New York Times.Retrieved2012-07-26.