Laughter is said to be the best medicine and one LHS group is providing it. Exit 1-6 is an improvisation troupe at LHS.   The group performs skits. The audience never knows what will come next.

“[The troupe] learns different ways of improvisation and they has improvisation games,” Sponsor Don Johnson said.  They do a shows [of] just different improvisational skits. There is a lot of participation.”

One member explains the uniqueness of this group.

“[Our shows are] usually the last Thursday of every month,” senior Austin Cable said. “We form a completely made up, on- the -spot show of comedy and play different funny games with scenes.”

Even the auditioning process is unique.

“Auditions were a lot of fun.” sophomore Hannah Dipoto said. “They were basically just a whole bunch of games and all the members of Exit 1-6 at the time made you feel real comfortable and not embarrassed to be yourself or do anything.”

Another member recounts her auditioning experience.

“It wasn’t scary,” junior Kaitlyn Peterson said. “I was just kind of nervous because a lot of my   friends were in Exit 1-6 and a lot of people that were auditioning were really good.  At first, I was like, oh man, these people are funny, and I didn’t know if I stood a chance but then when, I realized Exit 1-6 is about a mix of people who all have different strengths and I got in.”

The show is not scripted; the members make everything up as it progresses.

“Well, we make a setlist before the show so we plan out all the games we’re going to play, which is what rehearsal is like,” Dipoto said. “ You really never know what’s going to happen.  We know what games we’re playing, what we are playing them in but we don’t know what will happen.  We don’t know what suggestions we’ll get, we don’t know what kind of scenes will come out of it so I mean it’s improv anything can happen.”

Practice consists of hard work and fun.

“Rehearsal is just like auditions and just like our shows we just play games,” Dipoto said.  “Sometimes we have certain focuses, like we will have one practice we focus on characters and so every game we play and every warm up we do is focused on characters and building characters and thinking of new character, Sometimes it’ll be object work where we build our environment because we have no props or anything. So, we have to work, on making an environment and creating one for us and the audience and so we just play games the entire time but they have specific meanings the games that we are playing,” Dipoto said.

Things have changed with the group since last year.

“The people are definitely different but it always is but because we got new people so it changed the dynamic of things.  So, last year we had these entire super, amazing actors and actresses that went on to do great things and go to great colleges.   Now, a majority of our group is sophomores.  We had a majority of seniors last year and now we have a majority of sophomores so that’s a switch,” Dipoto said.

Members were quick to state that anyone who likes to laugh should come to the show.

“I wasn’t in it  [Exit 1-6] last year, but from what I hear we’re more of a family and it feels like we get along more and we understand each other more,” Peterson said.

Dipoto was in Exit 1-6 last year.

“Anybody who likes to laugh honestly.  The shows are really for anyone we pretty much entertain anybody,” Cable said.

“I think anyone who likes to laugh really.  I’ve seen people from theater be at our shows and enjoy it.  I’ve seen people whose main focus is school be at our how’s and enjoy it.  I’ve seen people who are athletic enjoy it.  We actually did a show for a bunch of football players last year and they enjoyed it a lot. Which was surprising because we’re used to theater people because that’s who we hang out with so I think really anyone who enjoys laughing   would enjoy it,” Dipoto said