The lobby opens at 9pm for hors d’oeuvres and specialty cocktails.
The Groundlings performers then take the stage for an awesome improv show featuring The Groundlings House Band.
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At midnight the actors and audience will come together for a champagne toast to welcome in 2020!
The Groundlings is an improvisation and sketch comedy theatre that has been entertaining LA audiences for over 40 years. They’re a non-profit organization founded by Gary Austin in 1974. A “Groundling” is one of the 30 company members who write and perform in the theatre’s shows and teach classes at The Groundlings School, which is the foremost comedy training ground in Hollywood and the springboard for countless careers.
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Alumni include Melissa McCarthy, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, Paul Reubens, Cheryl Hines, Jon Lovitz, Laraine Newman, Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Michael McDonald, Wendi McClendon-Covey, Taran Killam, Jennifer Coolidge, Kathy Griffin, Phil LaMarr, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan, Julia Sweeney, Chris Parnell… just to name twenty.
