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<p>« Best of 2005 - The Year In Pictures | Main| Mike Myers and the Gawker Stalker Trail » Wednesday Dec 28 2005  Why Don't Improv Teams Stay Together Forever?</p>
<p>Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 8:01AM An enlightening thread has popped up on the IRC with the header, Why Don't NYC Harold Teams Last?</p>

<p>Just so everyone's on the page: Every Tuesday at the UCB, four teams of improvisers perform at Harold Night, a weekly dedicated showcase of the art of improv. A casual theatregoer at a Harold Night might assume that these teams form naturally--8 friends get together, start a group, ask for some stagetime, and there you have it. But, in actuality, the team making process for many of the theatre's groups is constructed by a creative panel.</p>

<p>Dethtron 5000 explains it all:</p>
<p>> Harold teams formed under the auspices of the UCB don't have full control over their membership and fates. They are initally formed by a committee at the UCBT, usually through an audition process. If the creative leadership at the UCBT feels that a team's roster needs to be revised or disbanded or that the entire roster of harold teams need to be shaken up they do that. The teams, therefore, are pretty transitory structures. Sketch and improv groups that are formed by their constituent members tend to last longer.</p>

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