Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is to play its first full West End run, for a limited ten-week engagement (Thursday 24 September to Sunday 29 November 2015). Eighty brand new musicals will grace the stage of the Apollo Theatre, each created on the spot by multi award-winning musical comedy improvisers The Showstoppers. Audience suggestions are transformed instantly into all-singing, all-dancing shows with unpredictable and hilarious results.
The team create a real musical from scratch, not just an improv night with songs, but a full story with stories and characters you can care about, a live band of musicians, and spontaneous but seamless choreography. With a BBC Radio 4 series and eight years of festivals and touring to their name, The Showstoppers have impressed audiences around the world with their unique blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity.
Highlights from previous shows have included Emotional Baggage (an apt title for a tale of First Class romance at Heathrow Airport, with songs in the style of Sondheim and Abba), Sweeney Cod (in which an ambitious fish and chip shop owner falls victim to unrequited love, with a touch of Kander and Ebb alongside the pineapple fritters), and To Bleed Or Not To Bleed (a high-stakes opera of communist vampires, channelling Mel Brooks and featuring an undead chorus).
Showstopper! was created by Adam Meggido and Dylan Emery. Duncan Walsh Atkins is musical director, with design by Simon Scullion, lighting by Tim Mascall and sound by Tom Lishman.
The cast includes Ruth Bratt, Justin Brett, Dylan Emery, Pippa Evans, Susan Harrison, Sean McCann, Adam Meggido, Philip Pellew, Andrew Pugsley, Oliver Senton, Lucy Trodd and Sarah-Louise Young, with seven cast members appearing per performance plus a live on-stage band.
Each performance will have 200 tickets available at £20, and there are no booking fees.
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