DON'T QUIT YOUR NIGHT JOB - THIS THURS!!

DON'T QUIT YOUR NIGHT JOB
The Critically Acclaimed Comedy Variety Show
Where Broadway and Improv Meet… and Make Out

Thursday, April 24th at 11:30 PM
The Zipper Factory (336 W 37th St/9th Ave)
call 212-352-3101 or go to thezipperfactory.com for $20 tix - no drink min

This month, co-creators
STEVE ROSEN, DAVID ROSSMER, SARAH SALTZBERG and DAN LIPTON
are joined by...

DERRICK BASKIN (The Little Mermaid)

ANDREA BURNS (In The Heights)

Tony nominee JOHN ELLISON CONLEE (The Full Monty, Pig Farm)

GIBSON FRAZIER (God's Ear, The Internationalist)

child actor NOAH GALVIN (Les Misérables)

ASMERET GHEBREMICHAEL (Legally Blonde)

Tony nominee JONATHAN GROFF (Spring Awakening, Hair)

JASON KRAVITS (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Practice)

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (creator/star of In The Heights)

with SHOCKWAVE and KING SHERMAN (Freestyle Love Supreme)

VASTHY MOMPOINT (Mary Poppins)

MAURICE MURPHY (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

SANDY RUSTIN (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Tony winner JULIE WHITE (From Up Here, The Little Dog Laughed)

with DAMIEN BASSMAN on drums, YOU on audience, and MORE!!!

(cast subject to change, but always subject to awesome)

DON'T QUIT YOUR NIGHT JOB is where Broadway goes to let its hair down. The late night happening of improv, music, sketches and stories was created by its stars: industry mainstays STEVE ROSEN (Monty Python's Spamalot, The Farnsworth Invention), DAVID ROSSMER (Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic), SARAH SALTZBERG (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and music director DAN LIPTON (Paris Commune, The Coast of Utopia).

Proceeds go to benefit Wendy Wasserstein's TDF/Open Doors program. Open Doors is the Theatre Development Fund's theatre arts mentoring program for high school students, and was started in 1998 by TDF with playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Its goal is to explore the relevance of theatre in the lives of today's youth.

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Updated On: 4/21/08 at 10:31 PM

I wish I could see this!

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Dear people who do casting for DQYNJ:

Please get Mario Lopez for the next show. Doing something that does not involve him wearing a shirt.

Thank you.

I'll be looking forward to all of your reviews!

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So, who's gonna be there tonight? (not the stars, but audience)

Updated On: 4/24/08 at 02:14 PM

As long as my flight gets in on time, I'll be there, with I think all of my roommates (there are 5 of them). Can't wait!

It was a lot of fun, but it's the first time I've ever gone to DQYNJ so I don't have much to compare it to.

No suprise guests, Groff did MadLib musical to Totally Fu**ked (can we write that here?) It was funny but not great. Right now everything else was a blur. I'll try to edit and add more details when I get some sleep.

For improve it was good...but I've seen LOTS better. But again, it was a fun crowd and a fun night. Would I rush back again based on this performance? Not unless I was terriblly impressed with line up.

(I have to say, I got stuck WAY over to one side and DEFINITELY could not hear everything...so that could have altered my opinion as well.)

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Noah Galvin doing "Rose's Turn" was one of the greatest things I have ever seen in my life. He kicked so much ass.

Noah Galvin was clearly the highlight of the night. Julie White was wonderful as always. Jon Groff was actively bad. Not only was the madlib not funny, but he was also completely flat the entire song. They should have chosen a different song for him.

Not as hilarious as last time, but great all the same. Was glad to get in through a friend that had to leave early - saw many people, especially Broadway actors friends of those in the show, turned away.

Noah Galvin was absolutely AMAZING. I love that kid. The NY2 segments were hilarious. I really didn't like the Madlibs this time. And I was so glad to see the return of the blind date skit.

Did anyone else feel like most of the people in the audience had never seen the show before? I felt like I'd never seen half the people, when these are usually full of people I know or recognize.

*shrug* I recognized little Spring Awakening and Heights cliques (and as a Heights fangirl I can say that :)), so I wasn't surprised that there were a lot of people new to DQ there tonight.

May's is the 29th, right?

lol, annoying drunk people (sorry if you weren't drunk, annoying Mandy Gonzalez girl, I just assumed you were) are all a part of improv shows, I feel... whoever was doing the annoying *whistling* during the first part of Julie White's story was my personal unfavorite.

I'm still really excited, in a weird way, for the DQ kids that they had to turn people away tonight, good for them!

Oh and thank you to whoever put in "shut your brassy magnificint trap, Patti LuPone!" for the Line! improv- one of my fav W&G lines ever!!

Loved Lin-Man and Shockwave. Wasn't there a concert a couple of months back that was called "Reads the Phone Book," or something to that effect? I would legit pay money to listen to Lin-Man rap the phone book.


"Play me some 'Out of Africa'...ok, that's not it." Hee.