Ideas for Your Winter Time Holiday Show
[Name] the [Color]-[Body Part]ed [Animal]
How I Spent My Winter Break
I didn’t know this format had a name, but I have to come to learn that it’s called the Shotgun. The Shotgun is essentially a Spokane / Pretty Flower / Family Guy where the base scene is in a car. The characters are either driving to an event or returning from an event. The cutaways are what happens / happened at said event. Suggested suggestion: a holiday tradition or special event that only happens in the winter?
The Die Hard
An Improvised Movie. The subject of Die Hard’s Christmassiness is hotly contested and very polarizing. But we can run experiments to determine exactly how Christmassy a movie gets simply by taking place on Christmas. Suggestion: what is movie that does not take place on Christmas? We shall take that movie and show you the Christmas version!
Wacky Family Holidays!
Wow, meemaw is always getting into some hijinks. And cousin Woodrow can’t help but bring his thirteen trained hedgehogs to every family dinner! Interview some audience members about their weird holiday traditions and blend them all together to create the most dysfunctional family ever.
Could also be done Armando-style, with periodic breaks to interview more audience, or Living Room style, using the weird holiday traditions of the performers themselves.
A Meet-Cute for Christmas
When _______ Met ________. This time we’re only interviewing two audience members, choosing two performers to act as substitutes, plopping those improv avatars down into Holidaytown USA, and watching sparks fly as they find love through the Magic of the Holidays. Could be accompanied by music!
Holiday in the Stars
An improvised version of Star Wars Holiday Special. Fast paced, often nonsensical, much maligned. No scene is off limits and no celebrity impression too obscure. And you really only need the thinnest connecting throughline between scenes. For example: everything takes place in a galaxy far far away. The end. Simple as that. Tap into your inner Bea Arthur and combine with cabaret-style musical interjections for the full effect.
Improvised Santacon
Tis the season to follow a band of drunken revelers as they wassail their way through a series of increasingly bizarre locations. Will they all make it to their final destination? Definitely not. Such is the nature of Santacon.
More to come as I think of them!