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DESCRIPTION:BATS IMPROV HOSTS LAUGHING STOCK BENEFIT PERFORMANCE OF \n“MERRY TALES 
 AND NURSERY LINES”\nBenefit to Support Free Improv Class Program for Bay 
 Area Residents with AIDS, Other Life-Threatening Illnesses\n\nLaughing 
 Stock, the community service arm of the BATS Center for Improvisational 
 Theatre (“BATS Improv”), will be hosting a benefit performance to open 
 the 12th Annual BATS Summer Improv Festival on Thursday, August 3.  
 Laughing Stock’s performance troupe, The Mirth Brokers, will be 
 presenting Merry Tales and Nursery Lines, a night of improvised adult fairy 
 tales and bedtime stories with modern-day twists developed by Jonathan 
 Goldman and BATS’ famous Gerri Lawlor.  All proceeds will benefit 
 Laughing Stock’s ongoing program of providing free professional 
 improvisation classes to people living with HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, cancer, 
 and other chronic, life-threatening illnesses (along with their partners 
 and caregivers). Admission price is a suggested $15 donation, but no one 
 will be turned away for lack of funds. Additionally, free admission (and a 
 possible onstage walk-on) will be given to any audience member dressed as a 
 fairy godmother! \n\nNow in its 8th year, Laughing Stock offers beginning 
 series classes and individual workshops focused on strengthening quality of 
 life through humor, easy physical activity, group interaction, risk-taking, 
 and imagination games. Said Jonathan Goldman, Laughing Stock’s volunteer 
 coordinator, “These classes enable people to empower themselves, foster 
 community, reconnect with their imaginations and creative impulses, and of 
 course, laugh a whole lot.” \n\nLaughing Stock classes are held 
 approximately once a month at Cal Pacific’s Davies Campus in San 
 Francisco, but a special workshop series for women will be held during July 
 at the Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland.  Laughing Stock also 
 offers Intro to Improv workshops on-site at agencies in the Bay Area for 
 eligible populations of clients and staff. \n\nLeading up to the 
 performance, Laughing Stock is also promoting a “caption writing” 
 contest for its show cartoon graphic, available at 
 ww.improv.org/shows/laughingstock.htm. Anyone planning on attending the 
 benefit performance is encouraged to bring their proposed caption(s) to the 
 benefit; prizes will be awarded for the audience’s favorites.\n\nWHAT:  
 Merry Tales and Nursery Lines, an Improvised BATS Improv/Laughing Stock 
 Benefit:\n         \nWHERE:   The Bayfront Theater, Fort Mason Center, 
 Building B, 3rd Floor, San Francisco’s Marina District\n\nWHO:  The Mirth 
 Brokers, The Mirth Brokers, a vastly diverse group of performers – all 
 former Laughing Stock students and fans of the program, who have performed 
 together for over  four years at care centers, the QComedy Showcase, and 
 most recently at the Marin AIDS Project Retreat. \n\nWHEN:  Thursday night, 
 August 3, 2006. 8:00; doors/concessions open at 7:30\n\nTICKETS:            
    Suggested Donation: $15\n                             Costumed fairy 
 godmothers - Free\n                             No one turned away for lack 
 of funds\n\nAdvance tickets available at www.improv.org; Group sales 
 available; email info@improv.org\n\n \nAbout BATS Improv – Celebrating 20 
 years/1986 – 2006\nAcclaimed by critics as “bounce-in-your seat 
 funny,”  “consistently hilarious” and “San Francisco's premiere 
 improvisational theatre”, BATS Improv (www.improv.org) has been a leader 
 in the Bay Area's innovative improv theatre scene for nearly twenty years. 
 Fifty weeks a year, BATS presents a series of completely improvised shows 
 in a variety of formats—from comic competitions to improvised musicals 
 and everything in between. BATS has also gained a reputation as one of the 
 best schools of improvisational theatre anywhere in the world, and offers 
 improv classes and workshops to individuals, corporations, non-profits and 
 other groups.  BATS attracts students from all over the United States, and 
 as far away as Australia, England, and Japan.\n\nAdditionally, BATS offers 
 free improvisation classes through its “Laughing Stock” program to 
 people living with HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, cancer, and other chronic, 
 life-threatening illnesses, and to select care staf at area care centers. 
 Classes focus on strengthening quality of life through humor, physical 
 activity, group interaction, risk-taking, and imagination games. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285963.php
SUMMARY:BATS Improv Hosts Laughing Stock Benefit Performance
LOCATION:Bayfront Theater; B350 Fort Mason Center / Marina Blvd. at Buchanan
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285963.php
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