THE LAFAYETTE COMPASS

Volume IV, Issue 6 | March 9, 2020

music 3/18 10 PM @ The Pearl 3/21 8 PM @ Boom Boom Room
3/10 8 PM @ Boom Boom Room Scenic World Yacht Rock High Reeper Stoner Rock
Today Is The Day Metal PHONY Alternative Irata Heavy Rock
Child Bite Punk The Electric Mud Rock and Roll
21+ $5 Sexlord Boogie Doom Metal
CAPRA Heavy Rock
MFE Punk 18+ $10
3/19 8 PM @ Boom Boom Room
18+ $10 Freedom Hawk Rock
Lowcaster Metal 3/21 2:30 PM @ The Pearl
3/12 10 PM @ Jefferson St. Pub High Horse Psych Metal |Metal Fest for Special Needs
Neutral Snap Pop Punk 18+ $10 DJ Tarnish War Rig
The Brown Goose Rock Jason & The Kreugers Thornprick
3/19 8 PM @ Wurst Biergarten Solo-x Raccoon City Massacre
18+ FREE SINthetik Messiah …and more!
|Positive Energy World Tour
3/13 7 PM @ Wurst Biergarten All Ages $10
TGTG Indie Rock
Psilosophy Psychedelic Rock
Medicinemen Psychedelic Rock 18+ $7 3/22 9 PM @ The Pearl
YABBA Progressive
18+ $7 3/20 9 PM @ Bisbano’s Medusa’s Disco Psychedelic Alt Rock
Jessica Daye Weekend Punk 21+
3/13 8 PM @ Boom Boom Room $7
Beyond The Lake Post Emo
Camps Garage Rock Modern Healthcare Emogaze
ShitKid (Sweden) Garage Punk 3/27 10 PM @ Blue Moon Saloon
18+ $5
The Links Alternative Will Payne Harrison Americana
Aeronautical Pioneer Electronic Folk
18+ $10 3/21 9 PM @ Wurst Biergarten Veronica Stanton Folk Americana
Cameron Mauer Alternative Rock
3/13 8 PM @ Bisbano’s 18+ $10
Lindsey Candler Alternative Rock
Onerous Progressive Metalcore Talker Disco Punk
Katharsis Metal 3/27 10 PM @ The District
18+ $5
Vaquita Instrumental Metal D3V Heavy Dubstep
Infestment Metal ** The music industry is volatile. Dates and Dubba D Riddim
times are unavoidably subject to change. Greign EDM
All Ages FREE You can confirm events online, through each
venue’s Facebook page. 18+ $12
3/14 9 PM @ The Pearl
Mangata
The Dames
Dream Pop
Alternative Grunge
weekly events
Mon, 8:30 PM Comedy For Lizard People Bisbano’s Cellar Door
Syd Horn Alternative Tues, 10 PM Janky Karaoke Artmosphere
21+ $8 Tues, 8 PM Killer Karaoke Boom Boom Room
Tues, 8 PM Acoustic Tuesdays with Shaythius The Wurst Biergarten
Wed, 8 PM Wurst Comedy Open Mic The Wurst Biergarten
3/14 10 PM @ Blue Moon Saloon Wed, 9 PM Locals Open Mic Night (Music, Comedy, etc) The Pearl
Groove Grove Funk Jazz Fusion Wed, 10 PM Karaoke Bolt Bar & Patio
Talker Disco Punk Fri, 11:30 PM Ladies of Bolt Drag Show Bolt Bar & Patio
Sun, 12 PM Farmer’s Market The Wurst Biergarten
18+ $10

3/14 12 PM @ The Loud House

various arts
|South by South Weast Don’t Be A Dick About It (Cane Fire Film Screening)
Worst Party Ever (FL) Taking Meds (NY) Acadiana Center for the Arts
Short Fictions (PA) Hit Like A Girl (NJ) A wryly sympathetic portrait of two bickering teenage brothers: Peter, obsessed with the show
Niiice (MN) Shipwrecked (BR) Survivor who reenacts elimination rounds every day in an uncompromising ritual, and Matthew,
Carpool (NY) ...and more! struggling to overcome his intense fear of dogs.
Monday, March 9 at 7:30 PM Tickets: $10
All Ages $15
The House That Will Not Stand
3/15 7 PM @ Wurst Biergarten Burke Theatre (UL Campus)
It’s 1836 and New Orleans is changing. For the Albans family, a household of free women of
Hayfitz Indie Folk
color, the death of their white patriarch means that nothing will ever be the same again. As the
18+ $10 women try to find their paths to the future, they will discover what this new world gives them,
what it denies them, and what they will fight to take for themselves.
3/17 8 PM @ The Loud House March 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15|FREE Students/Faculty
(House Show: 110 Avalon St.) March 14, 15 at 2 PM
Lyrically Inclined Poetry Slam and Open Mic
Shin Guard Hardcore
Deau Eyes Indie Rock n Roll Black Cafe
Poetic souls bless the mic and open the stage up to anyone who needs to be heard.
All Ages $5 Tuesday, March 17 at 7 PM Tickets: $5

3/18 8 PM @ Boom Boom Room ArTech Fusion 2020

YATRA Doom Metal Fletcher Hall (UL Campus)
Void Vator Alternative Metal A series of performances and talks that promote and highlight the dynamic relationship be-
tween the arts and technology through demonstrations of video, dance, animations, and music.
18+ $10 Friday, March 20 from 6:30—9:30 PM Tickets: $20|$10 UL Faculty|$5 UL Students
around town comedy
Celtic Bayou Festival 2020 Bandwagon—A Comedy and Sports Show
Warehouse 535 Wurst Biergarten
An annual family-friendly festival celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Cajun Bandwagon takes three comedians and throws them down internet
country with traditional and modern Celtic music, a Lenten crawfish rabbit holes of LA’s three favorite teams: Saints, Pelicans, and LSU
boil, whiskey tasting, genealogy, Celtic vendors, and more. football, while weaving in irreverent audience games in the process.
Friday, March 13 from 6—10 PM Cost: $10 Thursday, March 12 at 8 PM Tickets: $5
Saturday, March 14 from 9 AM—10 PM Cost: $15 Louis Katz
Speed Dating Club 337
Wurst Biergarten Katz is an internationally headlining comedian, with TV appearances
For people looking to meet new people, participants go on 7 minute including Jimmy Fallon, Jim Norton, and Comedy Central’s “This Is Not
rounds and keep track of their dates on comment cards, with modera- Happening,” with a style weaving together the highbrow and lowbrow.
tors reviewing those after to set up potential matches. Saturday, March 14 at 8:30 PM Tickets: $12
Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 PM Cost: $20 date|FREE to watch Improv 3 Student Showcase
Lafayette Holi Festival Cite des Arts
Girard Park Students have been honing their improv skills in the Silverbacks’ 3-
Acadiana’s 10th Festival of Colors; come for Indian food and Bollywood course improv class and are ready to test them live.
music, and be sure to dress in clothes you don’t mind getting stained. Saturday, March 14 at 7 PM Cost: FREE
Saturday, March 28 from 11 AM—4 PM Cost: FREE Stoned vs. Drunk vs. Sober
Wurst Biergarten
artwalk
During the monthly ArtWalk, Downtown Lafayette comes alive as art
A comedy competition featuring three teams of comics in three states
of consciousness with the audience deciding the winning team.
galleries display works of the best of local and regional artists. Friday, March 20 at 8:30 PM Tickets: $10|$7 Advance
March 14, 6—9 PM Sliverbacks Improv
Be sure to check out: Cite des Arts
An evening with Lafayette’s most established improv troupe.
Fizgigs Live Music Cite des Arts 5 PM
Friday, March 27 at 7:30 PM Tickets: $10|$8 Students
David Spizale Deuxieme Vie Creative 6—9 PM
Skatepark Fundraiser Parc de Lafayette 6—9 PM
Cliff Cash
Amanda Holt Robicheaux Gallery R 6—9 PM
Wurst Biergarten
Cash has a comedy style that “embodies the new south,” one yearning
Reve After Hours Reve Coffe Roasters 9 PM to be seen as more than camouflage and racism.
Friday, March 27 at 8:30 PM Tickets: $7
improv spotlight Ryker: In theatre there’s a lot of pressure to Ryker: COSM is more of a novice group, so a lot
Our first filmed interview one year ago with remember everything, but in improv there’s of our notes are things like not just standing on
The Weaning Process opened my eyes to nothing to remember so the anxiety comes stage, always doing some sort of action in the
what IMPROV could be and sparked a curiosi- just from “am I gonna give the people what scene trying to establish a world around you.
ty in my that would finally be satiated by they’re asking for.” Elaine: We have notes like “we see this scene
joining the Silverbacks’ Improv Class a full Elaine: My acting started scripted, then when was building to something really emotional
year later. But finally getting that taste only I got to college I didn’t make it into a play so I and there was this one moment after an emo-
grew my hunger to understand it, so this joined COSM and quit scripted theatre for a tional peak and your response was to make a
month we sat down with ELAINE KIBODEAUX, decade. When I finally came back to it, the joke out of it and it sort of took all the wind out
teacher and performer with the Silverbacks, first day we got off book I put the script of it, so in the future could you embrace that
CHARLES-THOMAS VIDRINE, comedian and down and could feel sweat pouring out of with empathy.” But we still have to do the
performer in The Weaning Process, and everything cause I hadn’t had this stress in so basics too, so we’re constantly remembering
RYKER BOONE, comedian, actor, and per- long. I had gotten so used to the improv part to accept in a way that builds the scene and be
former in Cult of the Stage Monkey (COSM). but remembering lines and what my face is present and listen to our scene partners and
What is Improv? doing and not to trip over people, the stress not think ahead.
Ryker: In a literal sense it’s acting without a is just a completely different type of adrena- Ryker: She brings up an interesting point. A lot
script, a lot of it coming in the form of games line. In scripted I have to worry about myself. of people consider improv to just be comedy
we spend a lot of our time doing. For improv I’m focused on everyone else. when it can be very dramatic. It can be any-
Elaine: Improv is the art of making stuff up on What’s that difference like in stand-up? where on the spectrum of theatre. So don’t
the spot in front of an audience. Cooperatively Charles: Part of the anxiety in stand-up is pigeonhole improv into just comedy.
creating sketches and a play from thin air. that you have to decide what you’re gonna Charles: A lot of times the comedy can actually
What’s the difference being on stage as a say based on what the crowd looks like and be harder, cause if you try to make everything
comedian vs. in an improv group? how they respond to other people’s things, funny all the time sometimes you’ll destroy the
Charles: Well stand-up is very solitary, all of cause if you’re gonna say something that you tension for no reason, or destroy whatever
your practice is basically you going up and don’t think is gonna mesh well then you start mood is happening. You shouldn’t just try to
doing the same thing over and over and second guessing everything. But I feel like in throw everything away to make everything
tweaking it, which is pretty much the opposite improv I just kind of go with whatever feels funny all the time, if you do that you’re not
of improv. Where improv is making everything right, and if it’s not great then someone else building a scene or listening, you’re not doing
up, stand-up is making everything look like you will say something else. Like it’s not all on me any of the theatrical parts of it. □
made it up. Cause part of what makes the so that makes it less stressful. But also a little
more at the same time cause if you mess This interview is only a small
audience interested is that it seems like an portion of the full video
epiphany you’re sharing with someone when something up then you’re kind of messing it
up for an entire group of people. available soon on our
really it’s something you’ve been talking about Facebook and website. In
for a couple of years and now you still have to Do you guys debrief after shows?
Elaine: We take notes on our shows, when- the rest of it, we talk about
seem passionate about it. Also the communi- how to learn improv, what sorts
ties are a lot different, in general improv ever we record them we’ll go back and give
notes for what worked, what was a really of troupes are out there, and what kind
scenes are friendlier. That was something that of person is able to do improv (hint: it’s you).
made me really uncomfortable initially with strong choice, and where there weren’t good
improv was the amount of hugging, everybody
wants to hug each other all the time.
choices what could we do to improve that.
Cause as far as the scene goes, that scene is
over, we’re never gonna see it again, so
who we are
Editor:
What do you do to prepare for an improv
show? don’t try to fix that scene, but what can we Jason Woodworth
Ryker: I feel like for improv the most im- do in the future to keep that momentum Manager:
portant thing is to keep your energy up, you from dropping. Katie Allen
have to have the from the get-go and be able Ryker: It is something you can get better at,
even if it doesn’t always look like it. A lot of The Lafayette Compass is a community-
to maintain that throughout the show. Usually driven, passion-project publication led by
start with some warmup games, like some of people think “oh I could never do improv
cause I can’t think that quickly,” but it’s like local artists and band members. It was creat-
the ones we’ll do during the show, but it’s
any other muscle in your body, if you exer- ed to shed light on the growing creative com-
mainly to make sure everyone’s warm.
cise it, it gets stronger. munity and help the hard-working artist
Is there a difference in the anxiety you get on
What do those notes look like? reach a wider audience.
stage between scripted theatre and improv?
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