Saturday night marked a milestone for my Harry Potter Improv team, The Show That Shall Not Be Named. We hosted an event at LA civic treasure, The Last Bookstore, featuring some wizard rock by Blackhaven, some homemade butterbeer, and a metric ton of LA wizards and witches. Between loading and unloading the car, distributing waters to the crowd, crowd-work, performing, ice and soda runs, and doing laps around the block, I don’t think I’d ever done anything so physically grueling in my life. All told, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 people came by. Here are some artifacts from the event:

We are at MAX capacity! Sorry folks- if you're not inside already, you're not gonna make it! (too much Potter love) pic.twitter.com/QgyaH4kDgc

— The Last Bookstore (@lastbookstorela) June 26, 2016

Running around the massive line.

A write up in Nerds Doing Stuff.

A tweet by the mayor’s office:

Calling all muggles! @lastbookstorela will be holding a #HarryPotter Night tonight! https://t.co/zg5gxD8buP pic.twitter.com/f321D9cf9D

— Mayor of Los Angeles (@MayorOfLA) June 25, 2016

A feature in We Like LA and a feature in 89.3 KPCC for things to do on the weekend.

And finally, my dear improv team building a Dumbledore machine.

This photo essentially sums up #harrypotternight at The Last Bookstore in LA. @showthatshall had us in snitches! Definitely check them out at one of their shows as soon as you can! Thanks for a great evening! #harrypotter #hp #nerd #wizard #books #nerdlife #downtownla #comedy #music #butterbeer #wizarding #wands #showthatshall #instanerd #instacool #nerdgirl #nerds #nerdboy #nerdy #liveentertainment #snitch #jkrowling #dumbledore #ronweasley #hermionegranger

A photo posted by Nerds Doing Stuff (@nerdsdoingstuff) on Jun 26, 2016 at 11:13am PDT

Have been reminiscing and icing my knees since. Did that really happen?

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