Fun with Impact Archives

Announcing FREE open mike nights!

posted by Cheshire on Wed, Feb 27, 2008

Impact and Jukebox Stories present Open Mike Night! Hosted by and featuring performances from Prince and Brandon, it's your turn to share your stories, songs, comedy, monologues, whatever!

Wednesday, March 5
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sign Up 7:30pm; Show 8pm
La Val's, 1834 Euclid, Berkeley
Admission is free!

(Six-minute slots. Acoustic only.)

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Make your own jukebox label

posted by Cheshire on Fri, Feb 8, 2008

Like the classic jukebox labels we made for the Jukebox Stories poster? Now you can make your very own. Send us a screenshot and we'll post it on the site.

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Air Guitar Hero: the Money & Run edition

posted by Cheshire on Fri, Dec 7, 2007

Tonight at intermission we played Air Guitar Hero with the Money & Run theme music. Two contestants got up, picked up their air guitars, and proceeded to shred the shit out of Steve Klems' rockin' theme song. We were going to have the audience pick a winner, but we were so excited by the whole thing we declared it a tie and gave them both Impact button packs.

We're probably going to do it for the rest of the run, so tune up those air guitars and get ready to dominate.

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A shout-out on national TV

posted by Cheshire on Sun, Dec 2, 2007

Impact co-founder (and director of our first production of Money & Run, by the way) Christopher Morrison was on the game show Merv Griffin's Crosswords over the Thanksgiving break, and by some weird coincidence I happened to catch it -- and TiVo it, no less. Check out this sweet little clip in which Morrison gives Impact a shout-out. Thanks, man -- now we're world-famous!

(Side note: I didn't even realize that was him for a second, as I'd come in in the middle -- no, what kept me watching at first was that this game show actually used some good-looking typography. No joke.)

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Hum the Money & Run theme music and win free tickets to opening night!

posted by Cheshire on Mon, Oct 29, 2007

Call the Impact info line at 510 464-4468 and hum* the Money & Run theme music after the beep, and leave your name and email address or phone number. We'll pick five winners at random and give each of them two free tickets to opening night, Nov 16. Our judges' favorite singer will receive four free tickets to opening night.

Deadline: Tue, Nov 13 at midnight PST

*La-la-las and da-da-das will also be accepted. And if you make up lyrics for the theme song and sing them, we may even throw in an Impact tee.

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Join us Saturday for a chili splatdown!

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Oct 11, 2007

Come join Impact as we bring the heat to Crowded Fire's Chili Cookoff! Impact goes tonsil to tonsil with Crowded Fire, foolsFURY, and Playwrights Foundation as we compete for cooking glory. Oh, and it's a benefit, too: proceeds will be split among the participating companies.

Each team is required to provide three types of chili: meat, veggie, and "anything goes." I guarantee you that you have no idea what we have in store for the latter category. It will blow your mind.

Local theatre critics Chad Jones and Chloe Veltman are among the celebrity judges, and there will be two awards for each type of chili, one from the judges, the other from the crowd. So, let's see...two times three is...six! Yes, that's six trophies we plan on coming home with.

The cookoff is this Saturday, Oct 13, 11:30am-2:30pm at the El Rio bar. Plus there will be live bluegrass music. All this for $20 advance/$30 door. All the details are here. See you then!

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IF we got reviewed by the Chron...

posted by Cheshire on Sun, Jul 8, 2007

We almost never get reviewed in the Chron. We understand that there's a lot of competition out there, and we know that arts coverage is shrinking all the time, but durn it, without that Little Man it just makes it so much harder for us to find an audience. So here, in the first of a series, is what we imagine our Little Man might be for the current show. In this case, he's a little gaga for Impact Briefs 8: Sinfully Delicious.

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4th of July in Berkeley

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Jul 5, 2007

We had a great time meeting people down at the Berkeley marina yesterday at the Impact booth. Unbelievably great weather for July 4 in the Bay Area, don't you think? Thanks especially to Simon and John for joining me at the booth all day -- plus of course it was fun hanging out with my Berkeley Rep crew, who were perched right next to us. It was a long, sunburning day, but a good time all around. That roasted corn really was worth four bucks.

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Be our friend

posted by Cheshire on Thu, May 10, 2007

Join us, and together we will rule the world. Hit these: MySpace, Twitter, and, of course, our own mailing list.

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What do you think the Impact tagline should be?

posted by Cheshire on Tue, Feb 27, 2007

We've used "theatre that doesn't suck" and "kickass theatre since 1996," but we've never really polled our audience. So, no time like the present: we've created a poll on the Splatter Board. Let us know what you think! (Note: you'll need to register on the board to vote in the poll.)

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Make your own classic jukebox label!

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Oct 19, 2006

We had so much fun making our little jukebox labels for the poster of Jukebox Stories that we thought you might want to get in on the fun too. So we made a little toy tool you can use to vault yourself, your friends, or your family members into rock & roll immortality. Make as many as you like, and send us screenshots of your best ones. We'll post our faves for the world to see.

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