By Renee Anna Craig
Staff Writer

On March 30th, some of us were celebrating a different kind of holiday: St. WITrick’s day. This was a show put on by Westford Academy’s improv troupe. The audience was informed upon arrival that this would be more of a live practice than a show.  They wished to try out some new material on a live audience.

The WIT members participating in this show were: Mark Fingerhut, Paul Perrone, Dylan McCusker, Jillian Frankel, Nick Nudler, Braley Degenhardt, John Bergin, Jennah Calisi, and Rachel Weinstock.

The show began with a game called Quirks. Mark Fingerhut went out of the room and Jenna Calisi, John Bergin, and Paul Perrone were given quirks. Calis was Lady Gaga. Bergin was a taxi driver with no sense of direction. And Perrone was Charlie Sheen.

The purpose of the game was for Mark Fingerhut to guess the quirks. He came back into the room and established the fact that he was a photographer and invited each person into his studio. The most easily guessed was Perrone as Charlie Sheen. He exhibited erratic behavior and mentioned something about the goddesses.

One of the funniest games played by the group was called Interview. Three volunteers from the audience were requested, and three answered: Mitchel Tewksbury, Chris Noran, and Brian Edson. Each person was then asked a series of questions.

The information they gathered was then used in skits about the interviewees. The show would have been funny without this but it adds an extra element of hilarity to see your friends and classmates mentioned.

The final game of the afternoon was a script game. This had never been tried before by the group but to the audience they seemed up for the challenge. We were asked to pick a play from three selected scripts and we chose “The Boys Next Door” by Tom Griffin.

The WIT members made up scenes and as they were acting Fingerhut called out random stage directions. Some of the highlights were Perrone and McCusker dancing, Bergin yelling ferociously about newspaper, and Nudler and McCusker fighting over Frankel.

It was a pleasant afternoon filled with improvisation, impressions, and humans embodying ice cream toppings. They promised musical improv for the WIT show and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good laugh.