Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is an upcoming improvisational comedy television program that will air in the United States on the Game Show Network. The program is hosted by Drew Carey from CBS's The Price Is Right and is produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show premieres on April 11, 2011 at 8 PM Eastern time.
Cast
- Drew Carey - performer
- Ryan Stiles - performer
- Chip Esten - performer
- Kathy Kinney - performer
- Jonathan Mangum - performer
- Jeff Davis - performer
- Colin Mochrie - performer
- Greg Proops - performer
- Brad Sherwood - performer
- Heather Anne Campbell - performer
- Rich Fields - announcer
- Bob Derkach - music director
- Sean Masterson - performer/guest performer
- Wayne Brady - performer/guest performer
Premise
Similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, the show features the performers acting in improvisational comedy sketches in front of a live audience using audience suggestions and audience participation.
Games
All games are just like they were on Whose Line is it Anyway? in the UK and the USA and/or Drew Carey's Green Screen Show (except where noted).
- Freeze Tag
- New Choice (aka Quick Change)
- Song to an Audience Member (aka Song Styles/Duet/Doo-Wap)
- Options (aka Film, Theatre and TV Styles)
- Question This! (aka Improv Jeopardy!) - One player plays the host and four others play contestants on a game show patterned after Jeopardy!
- Sentences (aka Whose Line)
- Forward/Reverse - Players act out a scene moving and speaking in directions announced by another who acts as a caller.
- Moving People/Moving Bodies
- 2-Headed Expert - A pair of players (who talk either in unison or saying every other word) acts as an expert on a topic suggested by the audience while another pair (with the same speaking restrictions) either is interviewing or is learning from the first pair.
- Sound Effects
- Greatest Hits
- Story/Fairy Tale
- Bob's Call (aka Show Stopping Number)
- First Date - A married couple is selected from the audience and is interviewed about their first date and some parts are acted out by the cast. If the fact is acted out correctly or not, a particular sound is made.
- Mousetraps - 2 players act out a scene barefoot and blindfolded on a stage littered with 100 live mousetraps.
- Kick It! - 2 players act out a scene and must start rapping when a 3rd calls out "Kick It!" until the caller says "Word!".