New improv team brings laughter to North Greenville University campus
Posted by The Skyliner on October 21st, 2009Kyra Alexander
Staff Writer
There is a new improvisational comedy team on campus called Start Wearing Purple.
When the main members of the old improv team, Work in Progress (W.I.P.) graduated, there was a eed for a new group to be started.
The improv team leader, Karla Neves, senior theatre, had a lot to say about the new team.
“When it was decided there would be another improv team, we started with a simple sign up sheet to see who was interested and to get people involved,” Neves said. “From that we had meetings and held some practices to see who worked well together and how they did on stage.”
They ended up with eight people as a core team and the rest of the people are rotators if one of the eight cannot make it. However, when they practice once a week, everyone is invited to join in.
When it was brought to their attention that they needed a name, two teammates Thomas Sieberhagen, freshman undecided, and Will Daniel, freshman theatre, introduced the team to the name Start Wearing Purple.
“When they brought us this song we had never heard it before and loved it so we used it as our theme song and our name,” Neves explained. “We wear purple to all of our events as a team.”
Their first performance was on Oct. 3 at the Trillium Arts Festival in Travelers Rest. They were there all day and performed four 30 minute shows.
The team’s next show is on Nov. 23 and 24 at 7 p.m. in Turner Chapel. They will be showing the movies Night at the Museum and School of Rock and having the improv show afterwards.
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