In 1928, Hollywood movie studios created the Academy Awards to bestow trophies on themselves in order to “establish the industry in the public’s mind as a respectable institution.” In other words, The Oscars.
Now, over 80 years later, films tackling social, political, environmental, or cultural issues are dumped by Hollywood studios into the last two months of the year to pander to an organization that they invented for awards that they created in a self-satisfying loop of pleasure seeking in the form of status and reputation.
A king with a stutter. An obese teenager carrying her father’s child. Sandra Bullock teaching a different obese teenager how to play football. These are the over-dramatic, over-acted movies that Hollywood releases in the winter months leading up to award season. In other words, Oscar Bait.
Every Saturday at 8:30 in November, an all star cast of improvisers will take the stage at ColdTowne for an improvised Oscar-caliber performance. The audience will choose a movie that hasn’t yet been released , and – based on the trailer for that film – our cast will perform their artful interpretation of these sure-to-be classics. In other words, Oscar Bait.
Our cast of improvisers have trained at not only Austin’s finest comedy theaters but the finest comedy institutions across the country (iO, Second City, UCB). Their credits include Master Pancake, Stag Comedy, Midnight Society, Stool Pigeon, The Team, and Girls Girls Girls. Watch them craft a completely improvised, live action movie before your very eyes- for you and cinema enthusiasts alike.
We guarantee our versions of these movies will have more stuttering, more obesity and more Sandra Bullock.* In other words, they will be funnier.
CAST:
Addison Billingsley
Cody Dearing
Lance Gilstrap
Madeline Malka
Kyle Sweeney
Nathan Sowell
Katie Thornton
TICKETS HERE.
* Sandra Bullock not a guarantee.