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BEEES!!! turned 2 earlier this year! They are celebrating with a Two-Year Anniversary Show this Friday, March 29th, at 7pm, and you are all invited!
Formed in late December 2010, BEEES!!! gathered for the first time as a team at Mooncake, a few doors down from the Magnet Training Center. Over dinner and cheap Sapporo beers, they got better acquainted with one another. Some had taken the Magnet musical improv classes together, and were nervous and excited to be placed on their very first house team; others were seasoned performers, with years of improv and stage experience under their belts. What they all had in common, was their musical improv training under the brilliant Tara Copeland and Frank Spitznagel. BEEES!!! hit the Magnet stage for their first show on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011.
The meta show, November 2011. Photo by Keith Huang.
(Team Trivia: Michael Lutton came up with the team name, which won the majority of the votes, over gems such as “7 O’Clock,” “The Richard Cheddar Show,” and “Employee of the Month.”)
Inspirado winners! Dumb challenge (“Beethoven”), February 2012
Since then, BEEES!!! has performed regularly on Magnet Musical Tuesdays, survived two hurricanes (Irene and Sandy), won five Inspirado challenges, and performed in theaters and improv festivals throughout NYC and along the East Coast, including The Depot Theatre, Boston Comedy Arts Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, NYC Improv Festival, and the New York Musical Improv Festival.
Harold Night at ImprovBoston, March 2012
The Depot Theatre in Westport, NY, July 2012.
BEEES!!! is happy and proud to call the Magnet Theater home. Come this Friday, March 29th, at 7pm and join them in celebrating 2 years of making beautiful musical improv together.
The BEEES!!! opening, artistically rendered by Desireé Nash
BEEES!!! is: Jamie Cummings, Michael Lutton, Desireé Nash, Steve Whyte, Catherine Wing.
Sleepytime at Chateau Whyte, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, February 2013.
In celebration of its 7th Anniversary, Magnet held its first completely ridiculous and ironically meaningful award ceremony. It was the 1st Annual Maggie Awards and everyone played fell into their appropriate roles immediately; the winners were falsely modest and the nominees who lost pretended it was an honor just to be nominated. The presenters were sharp and read the prompter with varying degrees of skill and self conscious sexiness.
Here are some moments from the ceremony for those of you in the community who couldn’t be there, and those of you who were there and aren’t sure this actually happened. Enjoy
- Here is a video of the opening number. Peter McNerney was our Billy Crystal, accompanied by Steve Whyte and Joel Esher. Also appearing in the opening number were Michael Lutton, Jen Sanders and Santa Claus.
Click after the jump for the complete list of nominees and winners.
- Al Smith
- Alex Marino's Beard
- anniversary
- Best Laugh
- Best LINprovisor
- Best Person
- Best Property Damage
- Bianca
- Binu Paulose
- Carl Olsen
- Chatherine Wiing
- Chris Simpson
- christian paluck
- Golden PBR
- Jamaal Sedayao
- Jen Sanders
- Joel Esher
- karsten cross
- kelly buttermore
- Kevin Cobbs
- Lauren Olsen
- Louis Kornfeld
- Maggie Awards
- Matt B Wier
- Matt J Wier
- Michael Lutton
- Mike Berry
- Nick Feitel
- nick kanellis
- Opening Number
- Party
- peter mcnerney
- rick andrews
- Robin Rothman
- steve whyte
- The Maggies
- The Magnet Toilet
- the native american community
- TJ Mannix
- Tony Mui
- willy appelman
- woody fu
- Worst Improvisor
In a city of over 8 million strangers, it’s incredible to find a place that feels like home. Yet, in it’s 7th year, the Magnet Theater continues to do that for many improvisers, actors and comedy addicts. The Magnet’s supportive atmosphere focuses on following your gut and “yes and”-ing in a grounded and personal way. There is no fast track, improv is like anything else, it takes time to master. At the Magnet, there is no pressure to be anybody other than yourself. Much of that comes from co-founder Armando Diaz, who dreamed that the Magnet would “facilitate people making comedy and meeting each other.” I sat down with Armando Diaz and inquired about this very important milestone:
Willy Appelman: What was the first show in the Magnet Theater space?
Armando Diaz: I was teaching an Evente class and we had our first show in the theater. The stage wasn’t finished. It was an experiment for all of us. We (Ed Herbstman and Alex more
Featherweight & Phooka hit the stage two years ago this week on the Wednesday night Megawatt stage. Both teams have delighted audiences and provided us all with a consistently high level of patient and hilarious long form improv comedy every week. Both of these teams have also taken their acts on the road and performed in multiple cities.
To celebrate their accomplishments we would like you to join us on Saturday August 14th at 10PM where each team will dazzle you with 25-30 minute sets. 254 West 29th Street, NYC.
