Arts Club Theatre Company hosts uproarious Improv Night With Colin Mochrie & Friends, August 8 and 9
Denalda Williams, Gary Jones, Jeff Gladstone, Rod Crawford, and Veena Sood join the Canadian legend onstage
Colin Mochrie.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Improv Night With Colin Mochrie & Friends at the Stanley Stage on August 8 and 9 at 8 pm
JUST TWO MONTHS after comedy legend Colin Mochrie last graced the Improv Centre stage, he’s returning to Vancouver for another episode of hilarity.
On August 8 and 9, he’ll be starring in Improv Night With Colin Mochrie & Friends, alongside fellow comedians Denalda Williams, Gary Jones, Jeff Gladstone, Rod Crawford, and Veena Sood. The evening will be live, unscripted, and off-the-walls witty.
The show will take place at the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Stanley Stage—which is of note, because when Stir spoke with Mochrie, he shared that his first professional theatre role just so happened to be in an Arts Club production, She Stoops to Conquer. It ran at the Revue Stage on Granville Island in 1985, exactly four decades ago.
“They were threatening to fire me,” he recalled. “I was the juvenile lead but I got intimidated. I was working with a lot of the best actors in the city.… A bunch of insecurities started building up and then the director, Larry Lillo, he took me out for coffee and said, ‘Look, I hired you because I saw something in the audition and I know you can do this. We’re having a run through this afternoon. Show me. Show me or I have to get someone else.’”
The Scottish-born, Vancouver-raised, Toronto-based talent succeeded, proving a pivotal point to himself in the process. “That is when I learnt I did better in pressure situations than situations where I’m comfortable and should be fine,” he said.
Mochrie honed his performance chops at both Studio 58 in Vancouver and Second City in Toronto. His career has taken him all over, from his main role in the U.K. and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? to a stint on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. In September, he’ll continue touring with hypnotist Asad Mecci in their original show HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis.
Improv Night With Colin Mochrie & Friends is for viewers aged 19 and up. There will be a full-service bar in the Stanley Stage lobby. 
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