In deference to this great nation of ours, we are canceling all shows on Saturday July 4th in order to encourage everyone to celebrate America’s birthday in the way our forefathers intended – by exploding pretty fire in the air. USA! USA! USA!
Following up to our successful Mother’s Day event, we are doing the same for Father’s Day! On June 20th – if you bring your Dad to either show (7:30 or 10pm), he gets in for free with the purchase of your full price ticket. Tickets are first come-first served. Please note: you cannot combine this offer with the $8 Ticket Frenzy Sale.
This month we are featuring 2 players – 
Tom and Micheline McManus. Together, their combined years in ComedySportz is 23. Obviously, they have left quite a mark on our company. They do it all – play, ref, voice. Heck, they even got engaged on our very stage! Sadly, they will be leaving our fair city to move to Baltimore, so this month marks the end of their regular performances with us. We felt this was a good time to interview them together, and ask more than our usual 10 questions. Be sure to catch their final shows! Tom will be playing Saturday June 6th. Micheline will be playing Saturday June 13th. And BOTH will be in the shows on June 20th.
1. Your name and nickname
Micheline “Murf” McManus
Tom “Mad Dog” McManus
2. Your player #
23
9
1995
1994
4. High School attended
Iowa City West High (IA), St. Andrew’s Sewanee (TN)
Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, Dover MA
5. College (and grad school) attended
Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania (’94) Teachers College (’09)
6. Favorite CSz game
Blind Line
Say What?
7. Favorite memory involving a fan
Getting to watch a fan propose to his sweetie onstage in Hey Waiter. “Hey waiter, there’s a ring in my soup!”
Being told I improv like a girl during a remote. I’ve never had such a compliment. This was the same show for a “weight loss camp” where we were advised to avoid food references. When we asked for a fictional character, they yelled “Mrs. Butterworth!”
8. Memorable show moment
When fellow CSZer Tom McManus asked me to marry him during a game of Quick Change in a show. I was wearing a yellow shower cap on my head. I may never forgive him for the shower cap, but I married him.
Proposing to Micheline on stage!
9. Interesting fact (or 2) about yourself
In the summers during college I worked on the grounds crew scraping dead animals off the road. My nickname was “squirrely.” Also, I was once a pinch runner for Ernie Banks in a celebrity softball game. He’s nice.
I once was part of a full on musical number in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. My nickname in elementary school was “Scarf.”
10. Voted Most Likely To…
Get a brown bag.
Forgive Dave Jadico’s Mom.
11. How has being in CSz affected your lives thus far?
CSZ gave me a husband, and an awesome surrogate family! I’d say the impact has been pretty huge.
More ways than I can count. The people of CSZ have been as close as family since the early days. We’ve been through all the most joyous and difficult of life experiences together. I’ve come to know them as people of high integrity, enormous caring, and pain-in-my side irrevrant humor.
12. What will you miss the most about CSz?
The family part. I’ll never find a funnier, smarter, nicer group of people.
I don’t intend to lose touch with the people so I’m not going there. I will miss knowing there is a space where I can go and play on a Tuesday and Saturday night without worrying about anything other than creating and laughing together.
13. Murf – do you have an embarrassing story (CSz related) about Tom? Tom – do you have one about Murf?
Nothing embarrasses Tom, which is his genius. I think the time he was upstaged at a CSZ remote by family of mascot owls was pretty embarrassing, but sometimes you just have to admit that you’re not as funny as a costume.
I think she was genuinely embarassed by being proposed to with a shower cap on. Beyond that, no one can get to Murf but Murf. Don’t cross her on stage- she’ll cut you!
14. Your onstage engagement was the memorable show moment for several players. How does it feel to know that?
Awwwww….it was one of the most important moments in my life, and I’m glad to have shared it with such incredible folks.
Warm and fuzzy. It is a testament to what CSZ has meant to us that I don’t think either of us can imagine that proposing is something some people do in private without 20-30 of their best friends to help!
15. Will you be back?
Of course, Tournament 2010 baby!!
Like a bad penny, we will keep turning up.
We are having a summer ticket sale!
For a limited time, you will be able to purchase $8 tickets for use at any regular Saturday show from June 13 – September 5.
What you need to do: click the link below and order as many tickets as you would like. You will have the option to have the tickets mailed to you, or you can pick them up at the box office starting Saturday June 13. If you would like to ensure seating, we recommend you contact us to let us know how many seats you would like for a specific show. Tickets expire on September 6.
You must hurry! These $8 tickets are only available for purchase until 11:50pm Tuesday June 9th, and they cannot be combined with any other offer.
UPDATE: Offer has expired. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets!
