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Chemically Imbalanced Comedy is seeking a Production intern for our upcoming show Cartoon.

Because the show has lots and lots of stage blood the intern would be in charge of coming in to the Theater Saturday morning and taking the costumes across the street to the laundry mat and washing, drying and hanging the costumes for that evenings performance. Laundry money will be provided.

The show runs April 2-May 10

The Intern will get a CIC pass to come to all of our shows during the run (including our Comedy Showcases Saturday & Sun, Pimprov on Fri, and Cartoon)

Please send emails of interest to angie (at) cicomedy.com

As we work through the rehearsals for our upcoming show Cartoon we have been sharing with you some of our pre-production work. In the show Jay Gish has created an animation to illustrate how the most recent leader of Toon Town Esther has come to power. We get to see all the past leaders who each assassinated the other to gain power. Here are Jay’s first drawings of the animation.

UntiLoLo

The Machete Wielding Acrobats

FiniFini

Bolinger The Duck

Chihuly DeMan

Cynthia

As we work through our rehearsal for Cartoon we have been sharing some of our process with the blog readers. Here is a youtube of the very first rehearsal of the Cast learning the song and dance for the opening Theme song.

As we work our way through the production of Cartoon we have been sharing tid bits of what we have been working on.

Here is a quick video of part of the Dance Ideal Future.

In CIC’s show Cartoon we have a series of Stick Figure Torture slides that play during the show. Here is a sneak peek. Art work done by Jay Gish:

Mayakovsky V. V., Rodchenko A. M., 1923

This is one of the masterpieces of the era – The Dummies Poster. It was created by Alexander Rodchenko, a brilliant photographer and graphic designer. He is most famous for being one of the founders and apologists of constructivism – an avant-garde art and architecture movement, which denies art for art’s sake and proclaims manufacturing practicability as the basis for creation.

The text was written by Vladimir Mayakovsky – a talented Russian poet, who was one of the most notable representatives of early Futurism.

The Caption says:

Never ever better dummies one can hold Gonna suck them till I’m old.

I started with the Dummy’s poster to give me an idea on the Cartoon poster. I have gotten a lot of good feedback about how to change it for our purpose and would love to hear more thoughts.

As we move through our rehearsals for Cartoon thought we would share some more of the Original Music Jay Gish has written for the show, here is Winston Puppets first solo song:

Wanted to share the first draft of the set design for Cartoon:

One of the effects we will be using in our upcoming show Cartoon will be gun shots and Blood. Our Blood Designer, and Artistic Associate Nathan Petts has sent over this video to show how the blood effect will work.

Tonight we have our callbacks for our upcoming show Cartoon. Thought we would share some more of Jay Gish’s original music for the show. Remember this is a work in progress so it may change by the time the show opens in April…please enjoy Winston’s song for the Damsel…