Miss America rehearsal (Patreon)

Your response to wanting to see rehearsals is overwhelmingly positive! So here's a fun one from last June. We think it offers a good example of just how incredibly talented our cast is. This is a cold read for most of them, and they come in pitch perfect. 

The Miss America segment is based on a sketch that Acker wrote for a Second City show twenty years ago. It's that show in which he first cast Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin, and Annie Savage. We took the basic premise of Acker's sketch--Miss America wandering a post-apocalyptic landscape--and adapted it, leaning into bread and butter of Thrilling Adventure Hour: characters whose small-scale, personal problems dwarf the world-ending disasters they face.

Blacker had worked with Vella Lovell on Dead Pilots Society and other shows over the past few years, and he knew she'd fit in perfectly with the WorkJuice Players. And indeed, you can see even in this rehearsal video, that Vella's Miss America is already fully formed. She gets the rhythms and comedy of TAH like she's been part of the cast for years. We can't wait to have her back.

Hope you enjoy the video! We have more rehearsal vids--some Beyond Belief and Sparks eps--that we'll offer in the coming months.

Thanks, as always, for your support. It means so much to us.