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Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv, is a podcast that teaches Long-form, Narrative, Theatrical, Improvisation, or as we call it: Muprov. The hosts, Hal Munger and Julian Bernado are experienced and innovative Muprovisors, who are excited to spread the word about their favorite ways of doing their favorite activity. On the show they provided practice plans that you can use for your ensemble, teach fun formats, and chat with guests who bring a wide variety of perspectives! Intro Music By

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52:48

Signoffpalooza - Muprov Musings 030

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/03/04

This episode is a short one ;). Hear our takes on Impro Amsterdam, Birthdays, running, and Tob/Bottom. Stick around to the end of the episode and you might win a prize! We have a lot of fun!Join us next week for the first episode of our Muprov Fundamentals Series!

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47:09

The Improvisor State - Muprov Musings 029

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/02/26

Fire, Earth, Water, Air. After 100 years it is finally time to put your fists together and let those eyes glow. Thats right, magic is real and you can become the improv Avatar. Similar to our episode on The Ordeal, this one explores a forbidden technique on the the frontier of what is possible.This episode is shorter than normal because we are saving Sign-Off-Palooza for next time!

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01:12:18

Status - Muprov Musings 028

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/02/19

We break down our own way to understand status and do some status duels! If you have never heard of status, learn it, if you have heard of it, learn our way and find yourself a powerful opponent! Hal had fun dueling for the real life status in this episode as well :).

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01:03:16

Shakespeare 10 - Debrief in the Snowbank - Muprov...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/02/12

Miranda stays on the podcast to debrief the Tailor of Malta. (So listen to episode 09 if you haven't). Seeing how improvisors analyze their own shows is a great way to apply that learning to your own improv! Stick around for the sign off to get the low down on Swedish dish-clothes, Homebrew Syrups, and drinking Sap.

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01:11:38

Shakespeare 09 - The Tailor of Malta - Muprov Musings...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/02/05

John Mistele, Miranda Johnson, and Will Gutzman join the podcast to put on a special Shakespeare show full of hats, shipwrecks, and gnomes! I won't spoiler the ending but boy are there surprises in store....

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01:29:31

Shakespeare 08 - Practice Run - Muprov Musings 025

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/01/29

You know the drill if you have been here for the Hero's Journey, but before we can do our epic show for you, there has to be an even-more-epic practice run! In these practice run Hal and Julian play all the characters and in keeping with our tradition, accidentally ran a little over time... it is okay though because every minute is GREAT!

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01:17:10

Shakespeare 07 - GIGASPINE - John - Muprov Musings 024

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/01/22

The GIGASPINE is back with JOHN MISTELE! These Gigaspine episodes in which we talk through how to build a whole show are my favorite thing that we do on the podcast and this one lives up to the high standards set by the Anna Wang in Hero's Journey 07! If you want to get a better narrative intuition, there is really no better way than hearing first hand how we actually solve the problems of what comes next: where and when should you Tenuki?

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01:04:34

Shakespeare 06 - Reverse Engineering - Hal - Muprov...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/01/15

Hal is the “guest” this week to explain how they created their patented Shakespearean Narrative Flowchart™. We kind of get into the weeds on this one and pull back the directorial curtain on how you can boil down existing scripts into improvisable narrative structures. Once the sausage is made you get this simple flowchart: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19399esYCwajyfkgl6sbIS4FiAPQ2i0iL7yRp3NdPgzo/edit?usp=sharing Link to a New Play night four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lApi_65io

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01:06:54

Shakespeare 05 - Platform - Muprov Musings 022

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/01/08

Every show has to start somewhere, but on this episode Julian and Hal break down how some real Shakespearian Comedies begin and how that unsettles some of the usual heuristics for evaluating the openings of narrative improv shows! The Statistical side of Mu gets some love in this one :). I am going to leave off the flow chart till the next episode!

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01:07:25

Shakespeare 04 - The Fun Zone - Jayda - Muprov...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2024/01/01

Jayda Alvarez joins the pod to talk about dramatic irony! Put the comedy in your comedies by turning out to the audience and saying your inner thoughts!

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56:03

Shakespeare 03 - Em-O-tions and MUnologues - Muprov...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/12/25

Happy Holidays! The Shakespeare train keeps on chugging, so turn out to the audience and let out a guttural cry and a stream of inner thoughts!

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58:27

Shakespeare 02 - Language - Muprov Musings 019

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/12/18

We dive into the Elizabethan language and grammar! For the grammar rules you can follow along with this page: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1teSwA7-5kqL7FJa6J-FU9DyITS1Y19zDumy75gRgufg/edit

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01:03:51

Shakespeare 01 - Lisa Rowland - Overview - Muprov...

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/12/10

What a treat to have THE Lisa Rowland on to kick off our Shakespeare series! She is truly the Shakespeare GOAT and no one would be better to give the overview of what this format will be like! Stay tuned! Over the next nine episodes we will be teaching you everything you need to know to put on your very own totally-improvised, Shakespeare Play! I hope this episode gets you pumped up and ready to dive into the language next week!

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01:16:44

Intimacy - Anna M - Muprov Musings 017

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/12/04

Anna Mistele joins the podcast to talk about stage intimacy and how to safely practice intimacy and touch in an improvised setting! Adding intimacy to your practice plan can really help people feel secure and confident with finding their own boundaries and learning each others! To see this work in action check out: Example one: Skip to 20:03 if you want to see your hosts do a grounded intimate scene on ice ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_G9zNJv3Q Example two: see 21:10 to see your hosts do

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01:18:03

Commedia - Matt Chapman - Muprov Musings 016

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/11/27

Matt Chapman, clown extraordinaire, movement magician, and champion of introducing himself joins the Podast to give many words of wisdom on commedia, clown, game, movement, and teaching! This one was a really fun conversation for us and I hope you have fun listening!

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01:09:06

Stage Combat - Muprov Musings 015

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/11/20

Bye Bye Hero's journey... HELLO COMBAT!!! We got a little carried away with the technical stuff in this episode. Rather than a conversation about stage combat, it is more of a detailed list of how to do space object (mime + sounds) combat with various weapons and superpowers! I am going to try to upload the the video of this one on youtube in the coming days because the visuals will definitely help!

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01:14:35

Hero’s Journey 10 - Debrief - Will - Muprov Musings 014

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/11/13

Will Gutzman, Pro Improvisor, joins the pod fresh from his koi pond to debrief our recent show! We get in some meta stuff about how to debrief and give feedback in general, and also show you how we analyze a show after the fact! This is also the Sunset Show for hero's journey so we say goodbye to the format and hit the key takeaways! Its the last time that you will hear us say quadrant theory for a while so enjoy it ;)

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01:17:42

Hero’s Journey 09 - The Show - Muprov Musings 013

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/11/06

All the guests you met along the way come back on the podcast to put on an audio-only Hero's Journey show! A great demonstration of the skills that we have been talking about! We will follow it up with a debrief in the next episode!

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01:29:12

Hero’s Journey 08 - Practice Run - Muprov Musings 012

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/10/30

Hal and Julian do a practice run before the show playing all of the characters! Listen to a wild tale of magic rubies, talking badgers, the U.S. military, and opera zombies :)

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09:34

Not Muprov Musings

Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv ·

2023/10/23

We don't have a full episode this week :(. But... We do have exciting news coming. The reason this episode is delayed is that we are trying to get some people together to demonstrate a full run of a show!

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