Dues breakdown

The $132.50 fee is to cover rehearsal coaching, rehearsal costs, show costs and administration for the program.

dues explanation

Adventure Club is a recreational improv comedy opportunity that we are offering. Similar to recreational league sports or other recreational activities, Adventure Club requires time and “people power” to run. The dues for this first season of Adventure Club are right in line with the costs of recreational sports leagues, and are actually cheaper than our classes at this time.

Adventure Club was born out of our commitment to provide different types of stage time to our students and recent students. Since the Buffalo Improv House team are all improv performers who have been in all sorts of situations, we are super sensitive to the costs and stresses involved in being on a performing improv team. Ultimately, we recognize that stage time, coaching, marketing and rehearsal studio facilitation cost time and money, and these things can get expensive and messy for a team, especially one that is just starting out. This all was a big part of our decision to create a rec-league style improv program as our first type of offering in service of our commitment to provide different types of stage time to our students.

Adventure Club is directly inspired by the Secret Society at Mettlesome Theater in Durham NC, and this type of system was highly recommended to us from several other improv companies. Performers pay a bit so that the system can run, and in return they get to be on a team and perform regularly without the headaches and stresses of trying to get their own show off the ground. This type of system has proven to be very popular and sustainable when offered by other improv companies.

We want Adventure Club to be popular, worthwhile, and sustainable, and we will be continually re-evaluating the details, scope, and logistics of this program to ensure that it remains popular, worthwhile and sustainable! 

This will not be the only type of performing opportunity we offer, but it will likely be our primary one for the foreseeable future.

For folks who are looking for a more professional, audition-based performing opportunity: that type of thing is likely on the horizon for us, but not in the short-term plans. In the meantime, feel free to do your own thing! We’d love to see the improv scene in Buffalo grow and diversify.