Press release

For Immediate Release

May 26, 2001

Soap Opera Comedy Improvisation presents Soap Scum.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif What do you get when you mix "General Hospital," The Betty Ford Clinic and "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Soap Scum, the innovative full-length improvisational comedy that runs every Thursday night in the No Ho Arts District.

Soap Scum parodies the often-surreal world of soap operas by telling the ongoing saga of the not-so-nice people with great hair at the Rancho Hospital and Rehabilitation Clinic in the small town of Hidden Valley, California. The cast performs improvisational comedy games as they deal with everything that is soap opera: evil twins, amnesiacs, inept doctors and even a girl in a plastic bubble.

Each week they take suggestions from the audience to move along the plot and shake up the often crazy, always funny tales of sex, insanity and greed. The ninety minute comedy ends with a cliff-hanger and a reminder to come back and find out what happens on the next episode of Soap Scum.

Jean Carol, best known as Nadine Cooper on the serial "The Guiding Light," joins the cast of nine seasoned improvisers each week. Performances continue indefinitely on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. at the Whitmore/Lindley Theatre,11006 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood. General admission is ten dollars or sit in the balcony for half price. For reservations call 818 489-5286.