Thank you to all that attended the 2007 festival last July,
making it one of our most successful years yet. We have
just locked down the dates and location for 2008's 6th
Annual Best Of The Best Sketch Fest and plan to bring even
more amazing comic acts to Portland. We are thrilled to
announce we'll be returning to Artists Repertory Theatre
once again on August 8th & 9th, 2008! Stay tuned for
more details and a full line-up coming in the next couple
of months!
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blue door productions very proudly presents
bellingham
- boston - chicago
los angeles - new york city - portland
2007
portland's 5th annual national sketch comedy festival
HOSTED BY DARIA & MITCH & TED
FROM THE NEW AFTERNOON BUZZ
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SKETCH COMICS
7 SKETCH TROUPES
6 SKETCH CITIES
2 SKETCH NIGHTS
1 PRESTIGIOUS THEATER
FRIDAY
& SATURDAY NIGHT
JULY 13TH & 14TH
ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE (A.R.T.)
(ON THE LOWER STAGE!)
1516 SW ALDER - PORTLAND, OR
ADMISSION
PRICES
$10
- SINGLE SHOW TICKET
$32 - FOUR SHOW TICKETS
$49 - FESTIVAL PASS
TICKETS
AVAILABLE AT THE A.R.T. BOX OFFICE
STARTING FRIDAY, JULY 13TH @ 6PM
NO RESERVATIONS - FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
NO DEBIT OR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED
CASH OR CHECKS MADE OUT TO "BLUE DOOR
PRODUCTIONS"
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what this website does or if you have questions.
The
idea for the festival is to collect the top sketch comedy
troupes we’ve encountered on our various national
festival experiences and have them each come to Portland to
perform a 45-minute set over a single whirlwind weekend.
The element that sets this festival apart from the growing
number of national sketch comedy fests is that it is
invitation only. We are not accepting applications or
having a jury decide which groups are good enough to be in
the fest. We have invited only troupes that we know are
great. We’ve seen each of them in person and consider
them to be the finest of the festival circuit. This is,
quite simply, the cream of the national
crop.
Inspiration
for the festival comes from four trips The 3rd Floor sketch
comedy troupe has taken to Chicago for The Chicago
Sketchfest, the largest sketch comedy festival in the
country (100 troupes performed). For the past five years,
The 3rd Floor has received enthusiastic attention from the
local press and The Second City (The Mt. Olympus of sketch
comedy). Portland’s Hoskins & Breen (featuring
T3F alumni, Loren Hoskins) also received similar attention.
Interest in Portland stage comedy is at an apex. There is
also a legion of comedy troupes popping up in the NW.
Hoping to turn the spotlight towards Portland, further
establishing the Portland theater scene as a national
comedic hot-spot, we held the first annual Best Of The Best
Sketch Fest in July of 2003. It was a spectacular success,
drawing in over 1000 audience members over the one-weekend
event. In 2004, our success grew beyond our wildest dreams,
selling more than 1400 tickets in two days. The 2004 Fest
included 9 troupes, 7 sold out shows, 5 standing ovations
and even an encore. 2005 brought yet another incredible
weekend of comedy. 2006 was our most successful yet.
Grant
Butler, former editor of The Oregonian A&E sat through
the whole thing and had this to say...
“If
there's a downside to a festival this good, it's the
can't-miss nature of the schedule. Each act is so strong,
that you kick yourself if you don't catch it all...missing
a single laugh would feel like a
crime.”
The Portland festival has become the invitation-to-get as
buzz has spread across the national festival circuit. So,
we’re doing it again. We’re hoping to make it
an even bigger success. Please help Blue Door Productions
and The 3rd Floor welcome an army of sketch comics hitting
town in July. We guarantee it’ll be a hell of a
party.
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