We wanted to start an improv team when we moved back to Colorado. “One of the shows we saw there was a vintage radio program, and we thought it was a really cool idea. “Our artistic home in New York was a place called the Peoples Improv Theater,” Matt recalls. They met while performing improv at Denver’s now-defunct Impulse Theater in 2004 and continued to perform together after moving to the Empire State. The throwback production was created by husband-and-wife improvisers Libby and Matt Zambrano. That’s thanks to Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of the King Penny Golden Radio Show, held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Savoy and other locations around Denver, a 45-minute improvised 1930s-1940s radio show inspired by audience suggestions. Once a month, that vintage aura gets a breath of old air again. While it was renovated a few years ago, the building was historically used as a social club, dance floor and lounge.
The Savoy lives tucked on the second floor of a 19th century Victorian building in Denver.
