Improv Journeys: A Chat with John Warriner

Exploring Improv and Community in The Villages - Featuring John Warriner

In this episode of Open Forum in The Villages of Florida, host Mike Roth is joined by John Warriner, a new resident with over 10 years of improv experience. The conversation delves into John's journey from the plastics industry to becoming an improv enthusiast, and his experiences at Comedy Sports in Richmond. John shares insights on the dynamics of improv, the importance of trust and spontaneity, and details about upcoming improv shows and events in The Villages. They discuss the logistics of the upcoming performance on September 29th at the Rohan auditorium, how to get tickets, and the benefits of participating in improv for personal growth and community engagement. The episode also includes a segment with Dr. Craig Curtis on Alzheimer's disease prevention and treatment.

00:00 Welcome to Season Seven
00:51 Meet John Warriner: From Plastics to Improv
02:24 The Magic of Improv
05:35 Upcoming Shows and Ticket Information
07:03 Excitement for the September 29th Show
09:38 Future Plans and Special Guests
11:43 Setting the Scene: Whipped Cream and Tarps
12:00 Poncho Zone: A Splashy Experience
13:11 Alzheimer's Awareness with Dr. Craig Curtis
14:35 High-Energy Improv Games
15:45 Genre Replay and Silly Games
17:23 Joining the Improv Community
17:50 Comedy Lounge: Revamping and Growing
20:42 The Benefits of Improv
21:33 Closing Remarks and Support

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Transcript

 Improv Journeys: A Chat with John Warriner 

[00:00:00] Nancy: Welcome to Season seven of Open Forum in The Villages of Florida. In this show, we talk to leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live in and around The Villages. We also talk to people who have information vital to seniors. You will get perspectives of what is happening in The Villages, Florida area.

We are a listener supported podcast. There will be shoutouts for supporters. This is Mike Roth. Listeners, I'm thrilled to share with you this podcast, my passion project for you. This podcast brings you knowledge, inspiration, and things you need to know about the people and The Villages here in Florida.. 

[00:00:51] Mike Roth: I'm here today with John Warriner. Thanks for joining me, John. 

[00:00:54] John Warriner: You're welcome, man.

[00:00:55] Mike Roth: John's a relatively new resident, to The Villages, came out of the plastics industry. But luckily has had a lot of years of, improv experience. How many years have you had improv experience, John?

[00:01:06] John Warriner: Over 10 years of, improv experience. 

[00:01:08] Mike Roth: Okay. How'd you fall into improv?

[00:01:10] John Warriner: Fell into me, happened to be at work one night. worked at a chemical factory and I was on shift. a gentleman, we were just, one of my coworkers, came up and said, Hey man, I went to this improv thing over the weekend.

to be honest, really wasn't my cup of tea. but I think you would like it. I wasn't sure how to take that, but I was like, oh, really? he told me where it was. it was called Comedy Sports Richmond, out in the Richmond area in the middle of the city.

They did performances on Friday and Saturday nights. the following Saturday, I went to a show every Saturday that I was, able to go to a show that year I went 

Did that for about a year and just absolutely fell in love with improv, and with that theater, drug, my Poor wife along with me.

 I told her the first night we were sitting there. I was like, I'm gonna be doing this one day, I'm gonna be on the stage. And, sure enough, about a year and a half later I was on the stage performing. and that's how I got started.

it's a great community. you learn so much about yourself. about others. about, relationship building, connecting, All the things that we talk about, is just being human.

[00:02:08] Mike Roth: Trusting your scene part.

[00:02:09] John Warriner: Yeah, absolutely. Being, trusting, being vulnerable.

giving yourself up.

Taking a lower status, taking a higher status, and it's just great being a better person, a better human. So I love it, and that's what I've been doing, been hooked ever since.

[00:02:24] Mike Roth: Okay. So you went to the shows in that first year, Almost every week. Yes. Did you notice any repetition?

[00:02:30] John Warriner: Like in the shows?

[00:02:31] Mike Roth: Yeah.

[00:02:32] John Warriner: Yeah. 

It's, all spontaneous, right? But you do have a series of games that were played, you would see some of the same games over and over but it was still very much, wrapped in, spontaneity. even though you see the same game, it's never the same game twice. Because it's improv. 

[00:02:46] Mike Roth: Improv. , they took audience takes and so the starting point of every game was different.

[00:02:51] John Warriner: Absolutely right. 

[00:02:52] Mike Roth: it's like saying every baseball game in America is the same, No. You got different players. Okay. You got different umpires. the rules might be the same. Yes.

Except,

the National League or the American League, but the, rules are essentially the same and you can go to two games and they're different.

[00:03:09] John Warriner: Yeah, absolutely. that's what I love about improv, because you never know what you're going to get.

And that's what makes it fun to me, because you're absolutely right. the way that we did it back home is, we would have, different people that were MCing the event. So you always had a different flavor there and a different take. different players with different life experiences, right?

Different things that they bring to the table. and it was always something different, which I loved. That's what I love about improv. you could take the same suggestion with three different people and you get three different results.

You're never gonna get the same thing. 

[00:03:36] Mike Roth: And sometimes The results are gonna all be funny.

[00:03:39] John Warriner: Yeah.

[00:03:39] Mike Roth: Sometimes one's gonna be funnier than the other. You never know.

[00:03:42] John Warriner: I like your take on that. not that one was not funny, just one was funnier than the other. I Yeah. 

[00:03:47] Mike Roth: Their perspective Was different. 

[00:03:49] John Warriner: Some of the best shows I've ever been to, some of the best improv I've ever been to. I did not laugh one time.

[00:03:55] Mike Roth: Really?

[00:03:56] John Warriner: I did not.

[00:03:57] Mike Roth: Why were they the best ?

[00:03:58] John Warriner: They were the best. the relationships that were built in those scenes, the story arc that those performers took me on was amazing.

And I got to see this live action event play out in front of me. with just merely a suggestion. I appreciate that in improv, because I don't always have to find the humor in it. But I can find, the way that the techniques are used, the way the performers handle themselves, the way they find relationships and connections, the way they move a story along all those things, I really appreciate and, if I get to go and also laugh my head off, man, that's a great night.

[00:04:35] Mike Roth: Three years ago was the first time I went to the Sarasota Improv Festival. And we went with, four players from our group, just because it was there. We said, we gotta try it out. And so I'm sitting in the theater for the first show. And my face hurt. I laughed

yeah.

much.

Yeah.

they did such unexpected things. And there were about 15 shows that year that I went to, and my face muscles really hurt at the end of each evening. 

It was great. some of the things were short form, like we do here in The Villages.

Most of the improv we do here in The Villages is short form. if a scene ever lasts seven minutes, it's because it was hilariously funny.

[00:05:15] John Warriner: Yeah. That's right. 

[00:05:15] Mike Roth: Most scenes go for between two and three minutes, and, that tends to work out. in our 90 minute show, we'll get 15 different scenes in.

We bring at least 16 players to each show, and everyone gets a chance to get up there in front of the audience, and sometimes that works out very well.

[00:05:33] John Warriner: Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm super excited about, our show on September.

[00:05:38] Mike Roth: September 29th. That's a Monday night. At the Rohan, auditorium, tickets are still available.

As we record this, they will be available. At: TheVillagersImprov.com . From that page, you'll be able to click a link that'll take you to the ticketing page. If you want to go directly to the ticketing page, it's a little bit more complicated. It's: 

[00:06:01] Mike Roth: My.Allevents.In/Improv92925 , , and that'll take you right to the ticketing page where you can hit tickets in the upper right hand corner, you will be greeted by a seat map. We have, Seven rows of tables. You pick the table that you want and you can see if those seats are available. If you like them, click on them.

When you're finished clicking on seats, then you can hit the proceed button to pay for it with a credit card. you can bring snacks, beverages. Adult beverages too. 

[00:06:39] John Warriner: It always makes improv better.

[00:06:41] Mike Roth: Yes, It does. We did a show on Saturday at the Sumter County Library in Lake Panasoffkee.

It was fantastic. There were children present. We actually brought 'em up on stage

Used them in the show as a fantastic show. No. And there was no alcohol involved. It was a totally g-rated show.

[00:06:58] John Warriner: Yeah. It was really good.

We cater to the audience that you have.

[00:07:00] Mike Roth: That's right. 

[00:07:01] John Warriner: That's why I'm super excited about, September 29th. it'll be my first show, to perform in The Villages I came to your show a couple months ago, maybe a few months

[00:07:09] Mike Roth: Yeah. We did a show at the, old Mill Playhouse. In Lake Sumter. 

[00:07:13] John Warriner: You had a great crowd there that night. I dunno how many people it was, but it was packed.

[00:07:16] Mike Roth: It was 250 people.

[00:07:18] John Warriner: It was great crowd. hopefully we'll put together a crowd like that again at the Rohan and, yeah, I look forward to

[00:07:24] Mike Roth: The history of the shows at Rohan over the past five or six years is that we sell 'em out, about a month before the show begins and then 

[00:07:31] John Warriner: You got a couple more weeks I only couple more weeks to get your tickets. 

Before you sell out. 

[00:07:35] Mike Roth: Yeah. And but it, it's funny this year because, the Splish Splash Club bought the entire last row of seats, I guess there were more worried about having fun what was going on at stage.

[00:07:46] John Warriner: That's right. 

[00:07:46] Mike Roth: Yeah. The receipts a lot closer to the stage than they picked.

[00:07:49] John Warriner: Yeah, no, we'll take the last ones just in case, something goes down.

Yeah.

It's look, improv. This isn't church. You don't have to sit in the back row. sit in the front row.

No, that's awesome, man. I look forward to that, thank

[00:07:59] Mike Roth: I'm thinking of actually pricing the last rows.

More expensive. Next year

[00:08:04] John Warriner: Oh, we'll make tons of money then That's great. Yeah. So super excited about that. we have, I don't know, we'll have 15, 16 performers, something like that.

[00:08:11] Mike Roth: And, we should have our musical accompaniment by, Wayne Richards.

 Genice Shaw may be back, which will make it really good. 

Yep.

Because that's what we had at the Old Mill Playhouse. We had both players. musical accompaniment really helps, as we look into music.

Me here on the wall in 2 20 26. I'm hoping that we can mount at least one opening number, which is Pure Improv musical.

Not a whole musical show, a total musical improv number based on a single word prompt from the audience.

[00:08:43] John Warriner: Yep.

Baby steps, Mike. Like baby steps.

Put on whole shows, but let's, do an opener. I love it.

[00:08:47] Mike Roth: Yeah. Opening number, you know that opening number is gonna be done, based on the work of a group out of New York called Shitz Probe.

[00:08:56] John Warriner: Okay. Nice.

[00:08:57] Mike Roth: They've got a good name. 

[00:08:58] John Warriner: Yeah. Great name.

[00:08:58] Mike Roth: I asked one of the players 'cause I was in one of their, training groups, where did you come up to that name,

and she said, oh, it's a knockoff of what happens on Broadway. said, what? He says, yeah. The first time the actors and singers get together with the orchestra to go over the score of a new musical.

it's called a sitzprobe.

[00:09:15] John Warriner: Yes, I would definitely Google that. 

[00:09:18] Mike Roth: But the group was fantastic. They're actually gonna be here in The Villages in February. for a show, I think, up at the Savannah Center. 

[00:09:25] John Warriner: Where I live. That's close. I can walk there. 

[00:09:26] Mike Roth: We have a vague promise from them to do a, seminar for our improv club. the same time that they're in The Villages. That's in the middle of February, so

[00:09:36] John Warriner: Yeah. That'd be awesome. absolutely.

[00:09:38] Mike Roth: Yeah. In January, we have one private show booked.

We'll attempt to book one or two more shows, that will be open to the public. that's probably where we'll attempt to get another show at the. Old Mill Playhouse. They improved the stage there, it's wider now.

[00:09:54] John Warriner: Oh good. 

[00:09:55] Mike Roth: And you can have more than, three people on the stage without feeling it might collapse underneath you.

[00:10:00] John Warriner: But that's what made it fun.

You never what was gonna happen.

[00:10:03] Mike Roth: didn't know the stage was gonna be a trampoline.

[00:10:05] John Warriner: That's awesome. September 29th, we have a huge, diverse group of people. That's what I love about our group. there's something for everyone. Our group provides something for everyone, with our different personalities or different backgrounds or different experiences, what we bring to the table.

super excited about that.

[00:10:20] Mike Roth: We have over 200, different improv scenarios. that we've, learned over the last five years, and we're gonna pick about. 22 of them to have ready on the show card. we do that so that just in case the show runs short, during any improv scene, a player can put his hand or her hand in the air and a fist and say, blackout and the scene's over.

So it could have been scheduled for three minutes

[00:10:46] John Warriner: and 30 seconds,

[00:10:47] Mike Roth: went well, maybe 60 because it was dying. Okay. we take it off the stage? Yeah. we did have one show

where we actually ran through every number that was planned. Okay. And we had to go into the backup numbers.

So we have 15 planned. we'll have seven in backup ready to go just in case we run short. 

Nice. 

in the big show at Rohan, we will include our, famous, forehand number. 

[00:11:13] John Warriner: Oh, yeah, I've heard about this forehand. I can't wait to see it myself.

[00:11:16] Mike Roth: Yeah. Four hands. that's where two players in front put their hands on their waist and two players in back put their arms through the holes, under the armpits.

The player in back can't speak, but they have to do all of the arm movements. The player in front does all the speaking. And in the past we've always set them up as a chef's competition.

Sure,

Making, some kind of cake or confectionary product

[00:11:41] John Warriner: I could already imagine.

[00:11:43] Mike Roth: Yes. Usually there's a lot of whipped cream. We'll have at least four cans of whipped cream available, a couple of bottles of water. And we even bought a special tarp surface for the scene.

[00:11:55] John Warriner: Yes. if tarps are involved. you know it's gonna be something special.

[00:11:59] Mike Roth: Oh, it's very special.

[00:12:00] John Warriner: For to a Gallagher show. 

[00:12:02] Mike Roth: Although we don't have an official poncho zone. 

[00:12:04] John Warriner: Okay. 

[00:12:05] Mike Roth: No, for those of you who don't know what a poncho zone is, That's when you go to a Blue Man Group or a Gallagher show, they put ponchos on the backs of the chairs. And when you pick up your tickets, the lady at the will call desk says, you're in the poncho zone.

So I did that in Vegas for the Blue Man group and I said, no, I want Blue Man Group, not a Mexican group. 

[00:12:24] John Warriner: And

[00:12:25] Mike Roth: So when you get to your seat, pull this poncho over you.

[00:12:29] John Warriner: For protection.

[00:12:30] Mike Roth: absolutely. my wife is the one who's sa who's sitting closest to the stage on the timer's table

[00:12:34] John Warriner: Oh,

[00:12:35] Mike Roth: and she got hit.

[00:12:36] John Warriner: Watermelons,

[00:12:36] Mike Roth: cans, water, and worse stuff.

[00:12:39] John Warriner: Yeah,

[00:12:39] Mike Roth: Yeah. Absolutely. we have this mat, which is designed to, hold liquids and maintain traction on people's shoes.

[00:12:47] John Warriner: Oh, wow.

[00:12:48] Mike Roth: We used to use just a regular plastic tarp. And then we discovered that whipped cream and water is very slippery when one of the players fell.

[00:12:56] John Warriner: Yes. it's like playing Twister.

[00:12:58] Mike Roth: This makes it a lot safer. four hands is usually limited to four players. sometimes some of the players in the back line gets so excited they join and gets even sloppier.

[00:13:08] John Warriner: Yeah.

[00:13:09] Mike Roth: But that's a lot of fun.

Yeah. Okay. I look forward to seeing that. 

Let's take a short break and listen to, an Alzheimer's tip from Dr.

Craig Curtis.

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[00:13:57] Mike Roth: So that's in that 20 year period before the disease is obvious.

[00:14:02] Dr. Craig Curtis: That's right. Scientists now call it Alzheimer's Pathologic change versus Alzheimer's disease. We're saving the term Alzheimer's disease for when someone is actually experiencing symptoms due to Alzheimer's disease. 

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[00:14:33] Mike Roth: Thank you, Dr. Curtis. . So John, you were involved with, Comedy sports. what was your favorite game or exercise at comedy sports?

[00:14:43] John Warriner: If it's exercises, I love games that are high energy. I'm a high energy player. I mask a lot of my shortcomings in improv with high energy, and that's something I'm definitely working on. but I love high energy type exercises, that get you moving. I love, copy and paste type, exercises, where you can be goofy and 

[00:15:01] John Warriner AI: freely explore 

[00:15:03] John Warriner: characters without reservation. I love games that are loud. exercises that are loud. we play, exercises picket line 

[00:15:10] Mike Roth: That's one of the issues in improv There is no uniform true definition of what a game

[00:15:17] John Warriner: You call it something different, right? 

[00:15:18] Mike Roth: And the guy, from Buffalo, he's gonna call it something different, and the guy from upstate New York is gonna call it different.

[00:15:23] John Warriner: Yep. So work on, picking one word at a time and trying to put sentences together 

And working off each other. And it's very quick and fast paced. there's a game or exercise we play, called Big Boot. A big booty is a rhyming game where you gotta think quick and come up with rhymes. One behind another. so I love exercises that are fast-paced. They get your mind moving and get your body moving.

[00:15:45] Mike Roth: Is there one scene that sticks out in your mind as a great improv scene that you were involved with?

[00:15:50] John Warriner: Yeah, games wise, genre. we play genre games, for example, where, we'll have a setup scene, and then we'll get suggestions of different types of genre.

So it could be a musical genre, noir genre, a western, a horror, a comedy. We try not to do that.

[00:16:07] Mike Roth: Okay. So we take the same scene Play it once and then we get two or three other genres play it. 

[00:16:13] John Warriner: and we play that same scene again. but you'll see it in a different genre. 

Which is just hilarious because you see the same scene, but it's not the same scene.

[00:16:20] Mike Roth: We call that. Hollywood Director.

[00:16:22] John Warriner: There you go. We call it genre replay, right? 

[00:16:24] Mike Roth: those are some of the funniest scenes.

They're the 

[00:16:26] John Warriner: best. Yeah, they're the best. Especially if you end it on like a musical, like a rap or something because that's what we do.

it's wonderful. I like playing silly games. we have a game called Jurassic Park.

I think right. Jurassic Park, right? 

Big Dinosaurs,

absolutely. You're on the right track. So we'll have a setup scene, we'll do a scene totally normal.

and then the audience votes. On who do they wanna turn into a dinosaur? And, so then we do that scene again. a replay scene. But that person, everything they did in that first scene, they now have to do as a dinosaur, as Rex, you know?

pay a raptor or

A Raptor, right? Yeah. they take on that persona. and then we do that scene, and then they vote again. another person turns, and by the end of the scene, it's complete hilarious chaos of dinosaurs roaming the earth. trying to figure out, why Jimmy failed his math test.

[00:17:15] Mike Roth: Yeah, the dinosaur ate my homework. Absolutely. 

[00:17:17] John Warriner: Those games that are very physical and very moving. I love those type of

Yeah, 

[00:17:22] Mike Roth: That'll be a lot of fun.

[00:17:23] John Warriner: It is great. 

[00:17:23] Mike Roth: Now, some people listening might want to. Learn about how to participate or see a practice session at improv. that's pretty easy. First, four Mondays of the month, we practice at Rohan from six 30 to eight 20, and then we go out to dinner at either one of the restaurants nearby, black Piesanos or Kumo.

[00:17:44] John Warriner: Kumo's good. Yeah. I've been here six weeks. It's my favorite restaurant so far.

[00:17:48] Mike Roth: Oh, okay. it's good. Yeah. and John, you stepped in and took over the Comedy Lounge. why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about what's happening at the Comedy Lounge?

[00:17:58] John Warriner: Yeah. super excited about the Comedy Lounge. it meets at the 

[00:18:01] John Warriner AI: Bacall

as 

[00:18:02] Mike Roth: in Lauren Bal.

[00:18:03] John Warriner: Yes. Bal Rec Center, on the second and fourth Friday at seven o'clock. and we, information would say it runs to about nine. We cut it off around eight 30 or so. but that's about an hour and a half. revamping, that club a little bit, we are going to, learn short form improv.

at first, and put it in a type of head-to-head format. So hope to one day, put together some performances, at the rec center. using a different type of format. it's very, head-to-head, a battle between two teams format. 

ensembles.

Yeah, two ensembles.

Yeah, absolutely. Battling out for laughter and for your, admiration the audience members are very much involved in the show, right? improv without that turns into.

people just standing around looking at each other. but it's very interactive. 

[00:18:47] Mike Roth: be getting very popular, the second week that you ran it, the first week I was surprised to see 12, 15 people

[00:18:53] John Warriner: Me too.

[00:18:54] Mike Roth: Last week when we had 28 people there, I couldn't believe it. I said, wow. 

[00:18:58] John Warriner: Yeah. It was a great group.

[00:19:00] Mike Roth: Yeah. And that room at PCA can accommodate over a hundred?

[00:19:03] John Warriner: It can, yes. the room definitely can, absolutely. for our practices right now, we do high-paced energy, exercises, improv, from start to finish.

it's all, to get us. Ready to be able to put some shows on in the rec center. that's what we're working towards doing. it's gonna be, a great format. it's a lot of variety of type of games that we play. it's total audience immersion and participation so excited about it ready to get it going. But we gotta do some more, skill building and training in that type of format and structure 

[00:19:31] Mike Roth: Isn't that might take what, three months,

[00:19:32] John Warriner: yeah. Something like that.

[00:19:33] Mike Roth: So in this winter, we could look forward to, maybe you show up at Bacall as

[00:19:36] John Warriner: Yeah, absolutely. 'cause we got great, improvisational actors. We just gotta learn format. we gotta learn the structure of it. that's what we're gonna do. if you want to come participate and hang out.

by all means, please come. Everyone's welcome. it's a good space, to explore.

There's no cost 

no cost to show up. And, you'll learn. I promise you one thing, you'll learn something,

You'll learn something, you'll have a great time and you'll laugh.

Right? And so that's it. Yep.

[00:19:56] Mike Roth: And the idea is that get through a lot of the training.

It'll make you a better improver. If you've never done improv. Will this work for them too?

[00:20:06] John Warriner: absolutely. It will, 

[00:20:07] Mike Roth: do you have a humorous personality?

[00:20:08] John Warriner: It does help, you don't wanna kill the mood.

But it does help. And like I said, it's for everyone. If you want to come hang out, if you wanna learn this thing called improv, please come to, a practice, 

[00:20:18] Mike Roth: Come to a practice .

[00:20:19] John Warriner: Yeah.

[00:20:19] Mike Roth: In an hour and a half or a little bit more than that.

You're not gonna learn everything. You're not gonna see everything. Takes a couple of weeks to figure out whether or not you want to be involved. Absolutely. And stick around these improv.

meetings are training.

[00:20:36] John Warriner: They are. 

[00:20:36] Mike Roth: Some people will never use 'em on stage. Some people will use 'em in their business careers if they're still working.

Yeah,

[00:20:41] John Warriner: absolutely. improv in general is great for public speaking. going out and meeting new people, doing new things. it can help you with presentations and, your work life, your home life.

Being able just to have a better conversation with somebody, improv does that. But yeah, absolutely. Come check out 1, 2, 3, 4, show, classes. don't be intimidated. it's at your own pace. we find something for everyone. and you'll definitely, you'll feel welcome.

You have a, it's a good vibe there. It's a good spirit there. And, we'll continue to, build off of that and see where it goes, Mike. 

[00:21:08] Mike Roth: John, thanks again for being with us here on Open Forum in The Villages, Florida.

people can see you on stage on September 29th, Monday. Oh yeah, that's right. 

[00:21:18] John Warriner: put your seat belts on.

[00:21:19] Mike Roth: your seat belts on, 

[00:21:20] John Warriner: seat belts on.

[00:21:21] Mike Roth: And we're going to have another, new player to the group. John Bawol, who was on this show a couple of weeks ago, It should be a fantastic show.

[00:21:29] John Warriner: Absolutely. I look forward to it. Can't wait.

[00:21:31] Mike Roth: Thanks for being on the show, John.

[00:21:32] John Warriner: Hey, man. Thank you.

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