Salon Series<\/a>, landing straight up in the LBC for a night of improv and hilarity.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Touring Company show will offer participants 45 minutes of improvisation by four improvisers, in addition to a guest appearance by The Queen Mary\u2019s own \u201cCommodore.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is the first-time ever the UCB Touring Company has performed on the Queen Mary,\u201d said event organizer Alexandra Berru, who decided to bring the group to Long Beach because she wanted a contemporary element for this month\u2019s series.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m from LA and I enjoy the UCB performances at the Sunset Theater. When I reached out to them and they jumped at the opportunity. They\u2019re excited for the series,\u201d said Berru.<\/p>\n
The Salon Series was created in honor of The Queen Mary\u2019s 80th Anniversary, to entice the community to free or discounted events once a month on Thursdays after 3:00PM.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a really amazing series for the local community\u2014the Queen Mary is Long Beach\u2019s ship,\u201d said Berru. \u201cWe want to make sure we\u2019re doing things for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Past programming has included vintage movies (think Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), corresponding to milestones from The Queen Mary\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s event will give residents the opportunity to see highly skilled improvisers without leaving the confines of the city, providing an up-close view of a troupe that has bred performers and writers for such shows as Saturday Night Live<\/em>, Veep<\/em>, Silicon Valley<\/em>, Broad City<\/em>, Inside Amy Schumer<\/em>, Key and Peele<\/em>, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/em> and movies like The Heat<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comedy troupe co-founded by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh is making a splash as part of The Queen Mary\u2019s monthly\u00a0Salon Series<\/a>, landing straight up in the LBC for a night of improv and hilarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":67191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[913,181],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-salon-series","tag-the-queen-mary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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