{"id":80,"date":"2011-01-27T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-01-27T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T04:34:55","slug":"show-us-your-wits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Show Us Your Wits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been to improv.\u00c2\u00a0 We have been to burlesque.\u00c2\u00a0 So it seemed only fitting that when we got an invitation to an <em>im<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/173825_516611721_5456575_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-81\" title=\"173825_516611721_5456575_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/173825_516611721_5456575_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>prov meets burlesque<\/em> show, we would have to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Show Us Your Wits is a fabulously fun time.\u00c2\u00a0 The improv comedy company <a title=\"The Fictionals fb page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?ref=home#!\/pages\/The-Fictionals-Comedy-Co\/124300790971492\" target=\"_blank\">The Fictionals<\/a> have crafted a really frisky show.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The troupe do some fast and funny (and slightly blue) improv to start and then do a longer form set in the second half.\u00c2\u00a0 How does burlesque fit in to the mix?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, there are burlesque stars as guests and they play along in the scenes too and do some of their own routines throughout the show as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Being on Commercial Drive, you can see that the show has developed a nice following \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the audience is very supportive and enjoy playing along.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sh<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ImproLesque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-86\" title=\"Improv &amp; Burlesque\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ImproLesque-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ImproLesque-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ImproLesque-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ImproLesque.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>ow runs the last Tuesday of every month at the vegetarian eatery the <a title=\"Cafe deux Soleils\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafedeuxsoleils.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caf\u00c3\u00a9 deux Soleils<\/a> on Commercial Drive (Yes, they have beer.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it is served in a mason jar).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The house was packed so go early to get a seat.\u00c2\u00a0 The doors open at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm.\u00c2\u00a0 The cost to see the show is only $5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been to improv.\u00c2\u00a0 We have been to burlesque.\u00c2\u00a0 So it seemed only fitting that when we got an invitation to an improv meets burlesque show, we would have to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Show Us Your Wits is a fabulously fun time.\u00c2\u00a0 The improv comedy company The Fictionals have crafted a really frisky show.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,47,38,54,12,10,19,13],"tags":[31,57,17,8,29,9,30,5,4],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-drink-dates","category-food-and-drink-dates","category-indoor-dates","category-inexpensive-dates","category-night-dates","category-theatre","category-vancouver-area","tag-cheap-date-ideas-vancouver","tag-cheap-date-vancouver","tag-comedy-dates","tag-fun-activities-in-vancouver","tag-vancouver-date-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-night","tag-vancouver-things-to-do","tag-where-to-go-on-a-date","tag-www-vancouverdatenight-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}