Musical Improv Comedy

You need something to sing about, something to launch a song. The audience is going to give it to you. Here are sample question you can use to get suggestions from them:

This performance is perfect. Jenny applies every trick in the book to improvise a funny song, and takes complete possession of the audience. She begins with “Won’t you be my ?” and here comes the romantic power ballad.

This is an example of excitingly organic musical improv expertly tempered with solid technique to create a well-organized, theatrical piece. The sections are very clear:

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OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL is exactly that, a Broadway-style musical that is made up on the spot, based on audience suggestion. Therefore, every night is the `Opening Night’ of a musical that has never been seen! Now in it’s TENTH YEAR, Opening Night is thrilled to continue as the show LAWeekly called, “almost too slick to be completely improvised”. It is, by the way—completely improvised.

Explore how to create musical songs and scenes through improvisation in this four-term program. Class meets once a week for three hours. There are performances at the end of each of the four levels.

Larry Rosen is teaching Musical Improv Levels 1 and 2 at The Peoples Improv Theater in New York. He has many years of experience and a great reputation. He attended a signing event that I did at the Drama Book Shop several years ago

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a Second City music director? If you think playing the piano, writing and teaching songs, underscoring scenes, and improvising music sounds like fun (it is), you might make a great music director.

SHOWSTOPPER! is a completely improvised musical in an exciting and innovative new format: a writer has just one hour to create a hit show with the help of the audience! Each night the crowd provides the actors and musicians with titles, themes and ideas from which they perform an entirely made-up musical.