Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Sketchfest NYC 2006

Ten West performed Friday June 9th at the Soho Playhouse as part of the 2006 Sketchfest NYC June 8-10.
We would like to thank everyone involved with putting on the festival. Your exhaustive efforts are very much appreciated by Stephen, Bryan & Jon (me!).
The crowds were large and supportive. Thanks for the standing ovation people!!!
Before the show Jon had a temperature over 100 but the reception we got once we took stage put any concerns over illness out of mind.
There were so many talented and amazing performances over the three days and we feel very lucky to have beena part of it all and to be able to call these fellow performers friends!
Our only regret was not being able to be in the audience for each and every show.
We holwed with laughter during the shows we did see!
Bravo SketchfestNYC!!!
PS Even though we call LA our home we openly admit that NYC has a lot more character. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that you can more readily see a city's character when you're not stuck behind the wheel of an automobile. Hey Los Angeles - ever hear of MASS TRANSPORTATION?!

Sketchingham 2006

In April Ten West traveled - separately of course, because Jon is perpetually late and missed his flight...again! - to Bellingham, WA in order to perform for three nights at the beautiful iDiom Theater in beautiful downtown Bellingham. We were the guests of Michael Mathieu and Andrew Connor, literally. They housed and fed us and chauffeured us and overall treated us with more generosity than we've experienced in quite some time. In fact, everyone we met in Bellingham was as warm and generous as the two gentlemen - in every sense of the word - of the The Cody Rivers Show. Their housemates welcomed us. The audiences were sold-out to the point of having an extra show added to the schedule!
We were fortunate to have been invited to perform the same weekend as Hypnagogia - an amazing and inventive sketch comedy troupe from Seattle. The three groups combined creative forces for a SketchingJam extravaganza Saturday evening that left all of us at once exhilarated and saddened by the ending of an incredible weekend of performances.
Ten West was humbled by the Cody Rivers Show's Sketchingham. We are eternally grateful for the opportunity to experience Bellingham and encourage everyone to check out Mike and Andrew in action. They are AMAZING!!! Go to: www.codyrivers.com We recommend seeing them before you have to pay a LOT of $$$.