First Show

The first public performance took place in February 1982 at a dance studio in Downtown Dallas. We had 17 performers. We performed a smattering of the improv games we had learend in college that we had been rehearsing for the last few weeks, including Story/Story complete with deaths for missing the pick-up, This is a This twisted into pass the Ketchup/Pass the Salt, First Line Last Line, and various others I don't remember right now. 

This was also the last performance for 11 performers, leaving the "original six" in place for the next show. Which I believe took place in May 1982 at a place called Greenstreets on Walnut Hill near Loop 12.

Random Order

Since I am writing this sixteen years after the fact, memory my not serve me as well as I would like. Couple that with the messy divorce te group went through in the early nineties and I don't have some resources to draw upon. So bear with me, and if someone knows better than I about some items. Send me a note. Thanks.

It Began...

Officially on January 2, 1982. But the seed was nurtured in the months preceding. We had all been out of North Texas State University for about five years and had been getting together at parties since then. and no one was doing anything in the theatre in Dallas, no one was trying too hard, but there was a closed feeling to theatre at that time. So it was thought we could do something on our own. 

At North Texas there was a tradition of doing two student led and produced shows, through the University Players. These were called Cabaret shows and were essentially revues with songs, dancing and comic interludes. Most of us who became the Bomblets were involved with the comedy troupe, since singing was not our strength, although Arlene and Diana did participate in the musical portions, and Allen was incredibly talented at that stuff.