Always ready to take a chance, Christine Alexander, Sarasota’s uncrowned but not unappreciated Improv Queen, launched SaraSolo 2016, two weekends of solo performances with a Betwixt Week of workshops, tutorials, and performance development. In this gig, Christine Alexander becomes a radio hostess taking a chance on (maybe) audience Twitter feeds, call ins, and call outs. Just in case she needs a script, she’s brought along her imaginary diary from age 18. Would you blame Christine for finding her family trip to Stone Mountain, GA, b-o-r-i-n-g? All those stony guys’s faces? So who wants to know how she’ll find interesting people to call in now? Well, she hears from an old guy, Rip Van Wicked. Or whoever. Interruption for Commercial. To break the routine, from the moment she turns her head Christine gets visitors. There are high schooler Janet who only knows one prolonged sound and big breather Darth Vader and a four-year-old who’s famous for eating a whole cow by himself. A message from the sponsor cuts off each. And so goes Christine’s broadcast. But there are questions from the audience! 1} Do you enjoy oral sex with your Grandpa? “Well, if that’s the only door that’s open, if you know what I mean.” 2) Do you take showers with your Grandpa? “That’s a closed door.” 3) How do you boil a lamb? “First you find a boy named Lamb,” etc. She wishes all of us in Sarasota a good night to close as if we were in a movie about Vietnam and listening to Robin Williams. But we’ve had our fun enjoying Christine’s comic improv.
