Do you want to know what each separate hour of the 47-Hour Improv Marathon is in more detail? Well, here you go. Each hour will feature all eight of our core marathon performers, of course, but most hours will also include special guests, unique formats and styles, and new challenges for body and mind. Most people come and watch several hours in a row!
| Hour | Day | Time | Group/Show | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | 5PM | Kid Mixer | The Kids from the Hideout Summer Camp get the Marathon kickstarted right. |
| 2 | Friday | 6PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
| 3 | Friday | 7PM | Start Trekkin' | The Hideout's hit take on the original Star Trek Series. Set phasers to 'fun'. |
| 4 | Friday | 8PM | Fancy Pants | The Fanciest Pantiest improv show in the Galaxy! |
| 5 | Friday | 9PM | The Knuckleball Now | The fastest, quickest-wits in town. Scenes, characters, puns and plot-twists speed by in a rollercoaster of laughs. |
| 6 | Friday | 10PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
| 7 | Friday | 11PM | Franz and Dave Present Pine Falls | The characters of Kafka and Lynch collaborate on a "movie" based on the audience's suggestion |
| 8 | Saturday | 12AM | Bad Boys | The wildly popular ColdTowne troupe crashes the party |
| 9 | Saturday | 1AM | Tech Nightmare | The tech booth rebels and controls the performers with random sounds, lighting cues, and music. |
| 10 | Saturday | 2AM | Orphans, Orphans, Orphans! | It's a musical! About Orphans! What more do you need, man? |
| 11 | Saturday | 3AM | Golden | Improvised Silent Stories, a chance for the 8 to rest their voices |
| 12 | Saturday | 4AM | ColdTowne | The Bat: improv in the dark... AKA a cruel trick to play on the Marathoners |
| 13 | Saturday | 5AM | Control Issues | A really awesome show we were forced to change the name of. Formerly "Choose Your Own Adventure." The audience decides the fate of the story. |
| 14 | Saturday | 6AM | Of Mice and Mostly Women | Bad ass teen troupe, Of Mice and Mostly Women, brings their signature spunk and sophistication to the stage one last time before college! |
| 15 | Saturday | 7AM | The 46ers | A blast from the past. The Marathon cast from last year's 46 Hour Improv Marathon return |
| 16 | Saturday | 8AM | Minority Report | Minority Report lays down their original format, the Living Mono-pop. |
| 17 | Saturday | 9AM | Dubbed Indemnity | Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it's up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
| 18 | Saturday | 10AM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
| 19 | Saturday | 11AM | Loverboy (tentative) | Loverboy uses real dating stories to inspire their fast-paced and exciting improv show. |
| 20 | Saturday | 12PM | What's the Story, Steve? | An adorable (and real!) dog goes on an adventure, aided by improv. |
| 21 | Saturday | 1PM | Alamo City Improv | The improv scene in San Antonio is exploding, so we've invited them to come join in the fun |
| 22 | Saturday | 2PM | Happy Fun Town | Adult comedic improv show, currently in the midst of a run at The Institution, in the style of children's television shows. |
| 23 | Saturday | 3PM | The Eye in the Storm | The midpoint of the show... and a brief respite for the core 8 to do whatever they want. This is when they need you the most. Come cheer them on. |
| 24 | Saturday | 4PM | Charles Dickens Unleashed! | The classic Hideout Mainstage returns: Improvised Tales of Victorian England in the style of Charles Dickens |
| 25 | Saturday | 5PM | History Under the Influence | An improvised (and sleep-deprived!) episode of Drunk History. Really tired people. Really drunk narrator. |
| 26 | Saturday | 6PM | The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects | An improvised adventure starring the things all around us. The current Hideout 6pm Mainstage. |
| 27 | Saturday | 7PM | Girls Girls Girls | An improvised Broadway-style musical by the award-winning, long-running group. |
| 28 | Saturday | 8PM | Fiasco 1.1 | An improvised crime caper gone wrong, inspired the ingenious films of the coen brothers |
| 29 | Saturday | 9PM | Fiasco 1.2 | An improvised crime caper gone wrong, inspired the ingenious films of the coen brothers. Hour 2! |
| 30 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro 2.1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
| 31 | Saturday | 11PM | Maestro 2.2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
| 32 | Sunday | 12AM | Puppet Improv Project | What's better than improv with puppets? Improv with puppets starring improvisers who haven't slept in 32 hours. A Marathon tradition! |
| 33 | Sunday | 1AM | Hardish Bodies | Hard-ish Bodies: Stripping away male vulnerability one piece at a time. An improvised story about a male strip club, with real live dancing. |
| 34 | Sunday | 2AM | The Black Vault | Improvised Cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft |
| 35 | Sunday | 3AM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
| 36 | Sunday | 4AM | Gigglepants | The boisterous group from The University of Texas (one of Austin's longest running groups) joins the fray and brings the games. |
| 37 | Sunday | 5AM | The Force Awakens | Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a hell of a film |
| 38 | Sunday | 6AM | MC Harold | Improvised Hip Hop Comedy from the hardest working troupe in showbiz. |
| 39 | Sunday | 7AM | Teenage Wasteland | That last party of high school where secrets are revealed, substances are consumed, revenge schemes are hatched, and loves are confessed. |
| 40 | Sunday | 8AM | iZARZAMORA! | iZARZAMORA! employs historical inaccuracies to help explain today's truths. |
| 41 | Sunday | 9AM | Physics Curse Eats Burgers | Physics Curse doing their thing, while eating... burgers? I dunno, man. |
| 42 | Sunday | 10AM | Confidence Men | 2-time B Iden Payne Award winning Confidence Men present improv in the style of David Mamet. |
| 43 | Sunday | 11AM | Damn, Gina! | Damn, Gina! is Austin's first all-black female improv troupe. Ya dig? |
| 44 | Sunday | 12PM | The Secret Show | what's this gonna be? WHO KNOWS? A Marathon Tradition |
| 45 | Sunday | 1PM | The Available Cupholders | Austin improv legends make it go. Not to be missed. |
| 46 | Sunday | 2PM | Fakespeare | An improvised play in the style of William Shakespeare, and an insane feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
| 47 | Sunday | 3PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
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