Trophy Wife

Big summer movie news!

Congratulations to our own Kevin McShane who appears as Draco Malfoy in the upcoming summer blockbuster Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Hey, Kevin…we did it.

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May Madness

If competitive improv is your game, have we got a hot offer for you: Tuesday night at 8, Trophy Wife goes up against Steve Holt in the first round of the IO West’s annual Harold competition.

Each group will put on a show full of sympathetic characters, memorable lines, and eureka moments. Then you—our audience, our friends, our critics, our muses—will be asked to vote on which group had the better show. The winner goes on to the next round. We all go home thoroughly entertained.

So don’t miss out—get over to the IO West tomorrow night and let’s do this!

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Trophy Wife 4th Anniversary Show - Wed. @ 9pm

It’s that time….Trophy Wife’s fourth anniversary.

We’re just gonna put something out there – the fourth anniversary sucks. Don’t get us wrong. Four blissful years of marriage, and we’ve rocked each anniversary in true Trophy Wife style till now.

The traditional first anniversary gift is paper, and on that anniversary we all made a thousand paper cranes, then stood naked in the surf and floated them away while singing each other traditional Japanese paper crane songs. Then we all boned like we’d just met in a bar. Great. Super romantic. We’re awesome.

Second anniversary. Cotton. We hand stitched organic cotton tighty whities for each other and then modeled them for some really arty black and white photographs. Then we boned.

Third anniversary. Leather. We don’t even have to say it, do we?  In a nutshell:  we put leather everywhere, we wore leather. Then we boned. “Leather is the easiest anniversary,” said Grandma, and she was right.

The traditional gift for a fourth anniversary is Fruit or Flowers. Come on. Fruit or Flowers?

We racked our brains and maybe we’re just experiencing that soul-crushing ennui that sets in around the fourth year of any commitment, but we couldn’t think of a really rad way to bone to fruit and flowers.

Instead we decided to just do a Fourth Anniversary Show and hope that brings the spark back.

So will you come to it?  All we need are your butts in the seats to bring the old magic back and make us feel like we’re still a crazy young improv team that just got thrown together.

Then we’ll all laugh and drink together and pretend that lifelong commitment is a good idea!  Who’s IN

TROPHY WIFE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
Wednesday, April 8th @ 9pm
iOWest
6366 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028
21+, valet parking, cheap drinks, big laughs
323.962.7560 or http://west.ioimprov.com for tickets/information

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Trophy Wife, Phoenix Improv Fest to Wed

Trophy Wife has again been selected to perform in the annual Phoenix Improv Festival. We will perform on Friday, April 17th in the 7:00 pm show block in the Herberger Theater West.

Now in its 8th year, the Phoenix Improv Festival features improvisers from all over the country and attracts a large audience from throughout the Southwest. Trophy Wife has performed at the past two Phoenix festivals. This trip will be our first road trip without Opus. (I don’t mean to get all emotional in a press release, but I really miss that guy).

The Festival’s website has complete details, including the schedule of shows.

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San Francisco, Here We Come!

Trophy Wife has been selected to perform in the annual San Francisco Improv Festival. We will perform this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (July 17 through 19) at 8:00 at the Purple Onion.

Now in its 5th year, the San Francisco Improv Festival is a multi-weekend showcase of improv from the Bay Area and from across the country.

Our shows will be at the famous Purple Onion. Lenny Bruce, Phyllis Diller, and other comedy greats have played the Purple Onion over the past 50 years. The club is at 150 Columbus Ave in North Beach.

The Festival’s site has information on the other featured acts and is now taking online ticket orders.

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Night of the Refugees

By now, everyone knows that a recent accident has brought all shows and bar service at IO West to a grinding halt. For some of us, that means drinking far less. For others, it means having to get attention elsewhere. And for a few others, it means no paycheck. With the IO bar closed, a lot of members of the IO community are finding themselves out of work for the time being. That being the case, Nick Armstrong, 2007 Del Close Award winner for sexiest player had an idea. Let’s do shows somewhere else and donate a portion of the proceeds to the IO bar staff. Brilliant!!

This Wednesday at the the Tres Theater on La Brea four of IO’s best groups will come together for a night of revelry, improv, and drinking for a good cause. Doors open at 7:30 and your $10 admission is good for all four shows. Local 132, Kind Stranger Presents: Improvised Tennessee Williams, a Nite Terrors reunion show, and of course, yours truly Trophy Wife. A portion of the proceeds will go to the IO bar staff so we’d like to get as many folks out to enjoy these great shows as we can.

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Looks Like We Made It (This Far): 3 Years of the Wife

Do you know how hard it is to stay married in LA?

It’s hard. Really hard. Whoever says marriage isn’t work is full of crap. Don’t get us wrong, there are good times too. But then what about the times when Eric Hunicutt stalks grouchily off to bed without taking out the trash, or Mike Coen leaves his socks lying around, or Rachael Drummond eats all the spaghetti Bolognese we made without a “thank you” or even an “eeehngh” of pleasure!? Huh? And don’t even get us started on those nights when Kevin McShane turns a cold shoulder in the conjugal bed because he has a “headache” (Kevin ALWAYS has a headache, these days, and if his head is hurting then MAYBE he shouldn’t flounce around in those little scraps of lace like he’s asking for it).

But, like we said, there are also good times. And those good times, if you wait for them, can make you forget the bad times. Like the time when Opus Moreschi packed us a surprise picnic lunch and we took it up in the hot air balloon, then when we came down Jill had camels waiting to carry us to the Arbor Day Parade, and then Tim handmade us all little decoupaged cards telling us which parts of our bodies were his favorites and he said we couldn’t show them to anyone else because they were PRIVATE, and we all played footsie under the wrought-iron table before running down to the beach and getting our pants all full of sand.

Those times are pretty awesome. And it’s those little things that remind us why we stay married.

Which also reminds us – hey, this Wednesday is our THREE YEAR anniversary show! Yes, three whole years. We’ve been faithful, too. Not that we haven’t looked at other improv teams… but you can look as long as you don’t touch, right?

P.S. the three year anniversary is the SCADS OF CASH anniversary which means you should give us money. But if you don’t want to do that, you could always just come to our show Wednesday night at 9:30 (after DHT at 9). What do you think?

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Trophy Wife To Play the Phoenix Improv Fest

Trophy Wife has again been selected to perform in the annual Phoenix Improv Festival. We will perform on Saturday, April 5th at 9:30 in the Herberger Theater West.

Now in its 7th year, the Phoenix Improv Festival features improvisers from all over the country and attracts a large audience from throughout the Southwest. Trophy Wife had a great time at last year’s festival and looks forward to another road trip through the desert.

The Festival’s website has information on the other featured acts and will soon be taking online ticket orders.

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A Gift From Your Trophy Wives

We got you something.

Yeah yeah. I know we said we weren’t going to get each other anything this year. But we couldn’t help it. We hope you don’t mind:

WE’VE PUT EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF OUR PODCAST ONLINE.

That’s right. Every single episode. Nearly 50 Harolds and counting. Over a year’s worth of shows. All for you. Because we love you.

• MARVEL at Trophy Wife’s greatest hits! Shows like Bloodsport or the Del Close nominated Animation.
• WINCE at Trophy Wife’s not-so-greatest hits. Shows like Cheeze Whiz or Masturbation.
• RE-LIVE Rachael or Mike’s first show!

• WITNESS me wear the same four outfits over and over and over again!

And all this comes with the announcement that we’re splitting the podcast off from our normal news feed in the New Year. iTunes subscribers don’t have to worry – your subscription should automatically update over the next few days. But non-iTunes subscribers should grab the link to the left or enter http://feeds.feeburner.com/trophywifepodcast in your newsreader. It’s as easy as that.

Now don’t go out and get us something last minute out of guilt. It’s really no big deal. Just our way of saying “thanks” for sticking with us this long. But if you really must give us something in return, why not donate a few dollars to your favorite improv team?

Have a safe and happy holidays,
-Your Trophy Wives

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That's Our Jill!

Last night, our very own Jill Alexander debuted on Quarterlife – the new angst-ridden twenty-something-centric web series by My So-Called Life creator Marshall Herskowitz.

In her recurring role, Jill plays a conniving co-worker alongside GOAL! cast member Rob Smith in an ongoing subplot that apparently involves lower ad rates or something. I dunno. All I know is that I’m one degree closer to Claire Danes. Or, as I like to call her, The Future Mrs. Kevin McShane.

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