A unique comedy improv approach called ‘The Experts’ starts off with a TED-talk style lecture by an actual expert in their field, followed by the comedy team at Lickety-Split improvising by taking inspiration from the lecture.
If you like to laugh and learn, this is the show for you!
Lickety-Split will be joined on Friday, April 24 by guest improvisors from Durango and Cortez including veteran performers Cindy Laudadio-Hill and Tara Demmy.
The show — at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, 2313 Eagle Drive — starts at 7pm and includes a brief intermission. Tickets are available for $15 at licketysplitcomedy.com or $20 at the door.
Our guest expert for April 24 is John Kappelman PhD who will discuss “Cracking The Oldest Cold Case: How Lucy Died and Why It Matters”
‘Lucy’ is a fossilized bone collection comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis, discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia.
John Kappelman received a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University, and an M.A. in Anthropology and Ph.D. in Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, both from Harvard University. He recently retired after serving for 35 years as a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and continues his association with UT Austin as Professor Emeritus. The primary focus of his research is ape and human origins and evolution, with particular emphasis in paleoecology and functional morphology, and stratigraphy and geochronology.
Originally created by Christy Bonstell, ‘The Experts’ had an original run at the iO Theatre in Chicago. Lickety-Split can’t resist learning new things and having a few laughs!
One of the Chicago Experts was quoted in the Chicago Tribune article about the show as saying, “There’s something funny in everything.” Come and find out what funny we find in Lucy.