Impro

A friend recently gave me what is apparently a classic book on improvisational theater, called Impro, by Keith Johnston.

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O'Connor, who also is the artistic director for improvisational theater group Impro Theatre in Hollywood, says that as an actor, you can't do too much commercial work.

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And of course Keith Johnstone is important in the story – his book Impro is the first in the biblio of my book Drama and Improvisation.

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Impro Theater, one of Los Angeles' top improv comedy troupes, improvises a new Jane Austen story each night, as passionate, willful women flirt and verbally joust with brooding young noblemen, expectations are raised, hearts broken, secrets revealed and love may triumph in the end.

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· Impro-Visor uses menus to help one choose notes, cells, idioms, licks, and quotes for use in constructing a solo.

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· Impro-Visor includes a powerful lick generation capability.

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Although a point-and-click interface is provided, users can optionally enter chords and/or melody in this notation with a standard text editor and have them displayed as a lead sheet in Impro-Visor.

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· Impro-Visor saves solos and other lead sheets as free-form text.

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These items are defined in a single key, and Impro-Visor will transpose them to any key.

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· Impro-Visor also provides a way for the user to create and save licks for later use.

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