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The University of Dayton has created another creative outlet for students.

With audience numbers ranging from 30 to 50 people, free energy drinks and good entertainment, the Hangar Variety Show is slowly but surely becoming the place to be at 10 p.m. Wednesday nights.

The Hangar contacted senior entrepreneurship and marketing major Michael Kauffman earlier this year and asked him if he would be interested in hosting a weekly event.

With the help of Steve Gall, a junior entrepreneurship and leadership major, Kauffman organized the Wednesday shows.

One of the show's performers, senior Jonny Yadlosky, first started going to support his roommate, Kauffman, but has also performed and enjoys watching the show.

"[Kauffman] opens with his latest standup routine, usually three or four jokes, then he morphs in the evening's emcee," Yadlosky said.

Six performances by students, lasting five to seven minutes each, follow Kauffman's routine.

During the show, free Rockstar drinks, provided by the Dayton 2 Daytona committee, are given away to audience members.

Performances have varied greatly over the few weeks the show has been running.

According to Yadlosky, there has been everything from a jazz quartet to a ukulele player to poetry reading.

Gall has not yet performed at the variety show, but is hoping to do so in the next couple weeks.

His favorite performances so far have been Kauffman's standup and the ukulele performance, but he believes there are many other reasons for students to attend.

"It is free entertainment that is so much more fulfilling than wasting your brain on a television show like 'Jersey Shore' or 'Conveyer Belt of Love,'" Gall said.

The variety show was created on Wednesday nights to go along with the other events the Hangar and Galley offer on this day.

"The slogan for the show is 'Good Music. Good Laughs. And Free Sprinkles,'" Kauffman said, since the show falls on the Galley's "Free Sprinkle Wednesdays."

Gall is also hoping that more people will come early to bowl or play pool before the variety show.

Those who participate in bowling or billiards between 8 and 10 p.m. will receive a half-off discount along with a coupon for half-off any item at the Galley.

Any student who wants to perform at the Hangar Variety Show should e-mail Kauffman at kauffmmd@notes.udayton.edu.

Paul Azzi, a sophomore international business and marketing major, said he has performed all but one show and is interested in bringing more acts in to perform.

"The show is always looking for new, interesting and unique acts," Azzi said. "It's a really intimate atmosphere with a good number of people present, though the crowd isn't so large that it's overwhelming."