SPECIAL GOOD LUCK IMPROV SEPT. 16, 2020 FRINGE FESTIVAL SHOW EDITION: Sunnyside Arms Over Easy Blog
- The Sunnyside Arms Gazette
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min read
The Sunnyside Arms Gazette's Over Easy column is taken over today by the ladies of Good Luck Improv! As promised in their Keybank Rochester Fringe Festival Show, A Very Virtual Happy Hour with Good Luck Improv, here are the recipes for the featured libations du jour, as well as some other interesting facts related to the trivia topics covered in the show! *SPOILER ALERT* If you plan to catch the show, wait to read this blog post until AFTER you do so! See the Good Luck Improv Website or Facebook page to get your tickets for the show! Enjoy!
Check out some of the drink recipes and ideas, as well as some more information about the trivia topics covered in our show! Both Episode 1 and the BONUS episode are covered!
Episode 1: We’re Gone with the Wind
Libations du Jour
Tricia: Pineapple Cider Donut Cocktail
Ingredients:
*2 oz Pineapple juice
1.5 oz Spiced Rum
Apple Pie Spice
Honey or Pancake Syrup
Apple slice for garnish
*can be replaced with 1 tbsp of Skinny Girl Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Syrup
Equipment:
Your Favorite Cocktail Glass
2 Small Plates
Cocktail Shaker
Ice
Instructions:
Pour honey or pancake syrup on a plate, press the rim of the serving glass into the syrup. Dip into the apple pie spice
Combine pineapple juice, hard cider, and rum over ice in a cocktail shaker
Shake until outside of the shaker is frosty
Strain into glass and garnish with an apple slice (we like to use Honeycrisp)
Bianca: Stellar Organics Pinotage Wine
Heather: Vodka Ginger Cocktail
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Recipe 21 Vodka
5 oz Ginger Ale
Ice Cubes
Equipment:
Your Favorite Cocktail Glass
Instructions:
Fill cocktail glass with ice. Pour in vodka and ginger ale. Drink it up!
Deb: Tap Water, preferably luke warm
Our Pre-Game Warm Up
WARM UP EXERCISE: 5 Things/Improv (ZOOM Ed.)
Description:
One player initiates the game by selecting another player in the group and asking that player to say 5 things based on a category of the initiating player’s choosing. For example, “Name five flavors of ice cream you’d like to see added to the freezer aisle at the store.”
As the selected player names off each response, the rest of the players can count along, cheering when all five things have been said.
Then, the player who just named off five things will select another different player to go and supply that player with a new category.
The game is played until each player has had a chance to go.
Now We Be Playin'...Trivia, That Is
GAME 1: Urban Myth
Gone with The Wind
Out of the 1400+ actors that auditioned for the part of Scarlett O’Hara, Vivien Leigh was chosen to play Scarlett!
When was Gone With The Wind filmed?
1939. It took 125 days of photography and a budget of $4.25 million (the average feature at the time cost under $1 million). The movie’s running time is 3:42 and was in pre-production for two years before filming began.
X-Ray Undergarment Marketing
So, a London Firm marketed x-ray proof undergarments to shy women at the turn of the century. But Why? The creation of X-ray glasses led to the production of lead underwear to protect modesty. Today, x-ray proof underwear is still available, but is advertised as protecting modesty when passengers walk through a full body scanner at the airport.
When was the X-Ray machine invented?
Wilhelm Roentgen, a Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, accidentally discovered X-rays in 1895 while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.
What about foot x-rays at the shoe store? Seriously? Yep!
Fargo the Movie Money Search
Busted! Apparently, despite what our game card said, the Fargo movie-related death was a myth. Here is the real story behind the woman’s death.
When did the movie Fargo come out? March 8th, 1996
GAME 2: Buzz Word
Bonus Episode: We’re Money cuz When it Rains it Poes
Libations du Jour
Tricia: Watermelon Moscow Mule Slushie
Heather: Rocket Pop Cocktail
Ingredients:
5 oz Sprite soda
Ice Cubes
Equipment:
Your Favorite Cocktail Glass
Instructions:
Fill cocktail glass with ice. Pour in vodka and Sprite. Drink it up!
Deb: Tap Water, preferably luke warm
Our Pre-Game Warm Up
WARM UP EXERCISE: 5 Things/Improv (ZOOM Ed.)
Description:
One player initiates the game by selecting another player in the group and asking that player to say 5 things based on a category of the initiating player’s choosing. For example, “Name five flavors of ice cream you’d like to see added to the freezer aisle at the store.”
As the selected player names off each response, the rest of the players can count along, cheering when all five things have been said.
Then, the player who just named off five things will select another different player to go and supply that player with a new category.
The game is played until each player has had a chance to go.
Now We Be Playin...Trivia, That Is
GAME 1: Urban Myth
Edgar Allen Poe, Yo
Did Edgar Allen Poe attend West Point? Yes, however he wasn't dismissed due to uncontrollable drinking. January 28, 1831, only 6 months after enrolling at the academy, he was dismissed due to “gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders.”
Is Poe’s cottage really located in the Bronx? Yes! Check it out!
The Millionaire and His Pennies
A millionaire and his pennies…A story not as easy to find as you'd think. He seems to make a habit of it, without any of the return he’d hoped for.
Misc:
University of Florida Gatorade Commercial: The Legend of Gatorade Commercial
Were eggs actually an ingredient used in the original Orange Julius recipe? Indeed!
GAME 2: Buzz Word
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