Club Sensationzzz

Sam Tallent and Galloway Allbright

An Evening With Club Sensationzzz: The Talk Show ends next Friday, August 29 at the Bovine Metropolis ($10 / 10:15 p.m.). A total of 13 people have attended the last two shows and that is simply a shame. The talk show format is a perfect vehicle for the collaborative, inventive talents of Galloway Allbright and Sam, aka Club Sensationzzz. Their monologues, ad hoc "green screen" visuals delivered via colored marker on poster board, and guest interviews are always entertaining, and often brilliant.

This writer remains baffled by the insistence/refusal of many theater owners to not promote their product, i.e., their extended-run improv and sketch comedy shows. Marketing 101 says following the creation of any product the entrepreneur must then price it, place it in the marketplace, and, finally and most importantly, promote it. Promotion, the hard part, seems to be lost on the owners and the performers who also, clearly, have a stake in their success (they are all apparently too right-brained). "Build it and they will come" isn't a sound business model.

Regardless, bring a bunch of folks to see Club Sensationzzz next weekend. They never disappoint.

Stand up

Sam will be telling jokes tonight at the Ogden Street South Bar and Grill and the Ricky Open Mic Jam at 9:00 p.m. at Cafe Cero's. He says, "Buy me a drink, valued consumer."

Similar performing schedule

* Convention? on Tuesday and Wednesday,
* Iraq War, the Musical! on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and
* An Evening With Club Sensationzzz: The Talk Show, also, on Friday.

More about Iraq War, the Musical!

• Director/producer/writer Paul Cross interview in Westword
• 235 Democrats plan to rally at the August 24 matinee (those are The SantaLand Diaries at the Bug Theater numbers)?

The cross germination of Sam Tallent, or another glowing article about Iraq War, the Musical!

A lovely review by John Zwick of Iraq War, the Musical! mentioning Sam and fellow Club Sensationzzz!! founder, Galloway Allbright.

This week in Sam

This week, Sam performs in:

• Convention? on Tuesday and Wednesday,
• Iraq War, the Musical! on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and
• An Evening With Club Sensationzz: The Talk Show, also, on Friday.

He also begins classes at Metropolitan State College today.

As some smart guy said, "A moving target is harder to hit."

Club Sensationzzz's at Bovine tonight

Sam and Galloway Allbright will rush from Iraq War, the Musical to the Bovine Metropolis to perform as Club Sensationzzz at 10:15 p.m. ($10). Sam will not divulge who their "very special guest" is, but "he's awesome."

Denver Post on Iraq War, the Musical

Congratulations to Paul Cross and crew on their 3 out of 4 stars review by the Denver Post.

Sam fills in at BMX

Sam was hastily recruited by Matt Fogel to fill in as a member of the Generals for tonight's BMX at the Bovine Metropolis. Sam said the big crowd was a rowdy mess, particularly the group of "drunken bachelorettes."

Pressing news concerning Sam

"Congratulations! There are few periodicals more prestigious than the Elbert County News," says Rick Rothenberg, local media expert (the article ran today). The lovely EC News reporter did get one item wrong: Sam's peers at the Bovine Metropolis Theater named him the Sketch Performer of 2007, and not "top improvisational comedian" (there was no such award).

Bovine Metropolis hosts Convention? in August

Sam and Kathleen Boland, Convention?, Avenue Theater

For the month of August, you can see Convention? on Tuesdays at the Avenue Theater (7:30 pm / $10 and a free drink) and Wednesdays at the Bovine Metropolis Theater (7:30 pm / $8).

Sam on the Improv-a-Thon

From the Bovine Metropolis Theater's Moo Blog.

7 hours of Saturday morning improv

After his Club Sensationzz's gig, Sam left the Bovine Metropolis at midnight for the Iraq War, the Musical! cast party, then returned to the 24 Hour Improv-a-thon to perform with the Bovine's Sanscript Players from 2 to 9 a.m. He's asked for a wake up call at 4 p.m. to prepare for Night 2 of "the Musical."

Club Sensationzz @ 24-Hour Improv-a-thon tonight

Cast members Sam and Galloway Allbright will rush from the opening night of Iraq War, the Musical! to perform two sets as Club Sensationzz at the 24 Improv-a-thon hosted by SanScript Players at the Bovine Metropolis Theater (10 p.m. and 11 ish: be flexible / $8). The “Thon” benefits Family Tree and runs from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Iraq War, the Musical! opens tonight

Sam appears as Ronald Reagan and God in Iraq War, the Musical!, running every weekend (including Sunday matinees) at the Bug Theatre through August (Friday and Saturday @ 8 p.m. / Sunday @ 2 p.m. / $20).