My sketch group Neighbor Boy is doing a comedy show about Kickstarter. We have a Kickstarter for it. To be clear: The Kickstarter show and the Kickstarter for the show are both very real. You can for real give us money.
Our Project: Neighbor Boy’s Kickstarter is for funding a 30-min sketch comedy show about Kickstarter. So this is a Kickstarter for a Kickstarter show.
The show will take place Monday, February 13 at 9:30pm at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York along with the troupe Fambly. (You can make reservations here.)
We love performing original sketch comedy, but we need your help in order to write, rehearse and produce this show! Otherwise, the stage will just be empty for 30 minutes where our show should be.
Why We Need Your Help: Producing last month’s show cost us almost $200, and that was with minimal props and costumes. For instance, a sketch about a rollerskating Great Gatsby was not able to use authentic Jazz Age costumes. We could not afford music clearances for our sketch about two Mick Jagger clones who run a law firm together. A sexually confused unicorn was portrayed by an actor in a white sweatshirt rather than an actual unicorn costume. Plus, we only rehearsed like twice, because rehearsal space is really expensive.
Who We Are: Neighbor Boy includes six writers (Beth Appel, Caitlin Bitzegaio, Geoff Garlock, Matt Moskovciak, Melinda Taub, Erik Tanouye) six performers (Joanna Bradley, Tim Dunn, Kate Hess, Davram Stiefler, Shannon Taing, Rob Webber) and one director (Will Hines). We have a lot of credits, but do not have anyone who can assemble them into one nice list with links, like a press person would. If we had more money, we could probably do that. For now, you’ll have to google us all individually.
When Is That Show Again? Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 9:30pm at the UCB Theatre in Chelsea (on the corner of 26th St and Eighth Ave). You can make reservations here. You’ll get to see both us and Fambly, who produced last year’s hit Maude Night show “Brand New Day.”
How We’ll Use the Money: Since we’re still writing the show, we’re not sure what our exact expenses will be. Definitely we’ll need to rent space for rehearsals and readings. So far we’ve met in a bagel shop and a law firm’s offices after hours. In terms of props and costumes, based on the material we’ve written so far, we may need: a radio call-in show set, the board game Taboo, an astronaut costume, rights to use the theme song from “That’s So Raven”, an authentic Oval Office set, an ounce of gold (for a sketch about the gold standard), a dragon costume, and period attire from Victorian England.
I Don’t Have Money But I Still Want To Help: Sorry to hear about your financial difficulties. You can still:
- Like Neighbor Boy’s page on Facebook.
- Like our Kickstarter link below and share it with your friends and also family members and acquaintances and people whose email addresses you have even though you don’t remember who they are or why you know them
- Spread the word!
- Attend the show. If you can’t afford the $5 ticket, but you’re a sketch student at the UCB Training Center, you can attend the show for free.
- Spray paint “Neighbor Boy Feb 13, 2012” on buildings, cars, and babies in your neighborhood.
Thank you! This project means a lot to us and we’re really grateful to all of you for taking the time to read this and be a part of Neighbor Boy’s Kickstarter Comedy Show Monday February 13th at 9:30pm.
