Olivier Award winners The Showstoppers will once again offer home-based theatre lovers the Christmas gift of a special festive flavoured live-stream improvised musical. Falling half way through The Showstoppers’ West End residency at the Lyric Theatre, the improv-specialists’ final show of 2021 will be live-streamed at 7.30pm on 18 December 2021. The performance will be […]
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Five month West End residency at the Lyric Theatre for Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Improv specialists The Showstoppers will return to the West End’s Lyric Theatre in November for the first in a five-month season of monthly shows With two live shows left to play at The Showstoppers’ current residency, the Garrick Theatre, on 27 September and 11 October, the Olivier Award-winners have confirmed they will be taking their […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – Garrick Theatre
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues to play Mondays at the Garrick Theatre, London on 5 July, 9 August, 13 September and 11 October 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As a reviewer who has never seen Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, I came to the Garrick Theatre with an open mind and […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – Garrick Theatre
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues its residency at the Garrick Theatre, London until 22 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Being cynical, you could say that any audience able to attend any live show at the moment is very easily, rather too easily pleased. But, for those theatre-junkies seeking a cure for the […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – Garrick Theatre
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues its residency at the Garrick Theatre, London until 22 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This reviewer will never tire of seeing The Showstoppers company perform. Each production in its own right is a once in a lifetime experience for cast, crew and audience that […]
West End return for The Showstoppers with new season at the Garrick
After months of keeping homebound theatre-lovers entertained, improv specialists The Showstoppers are heading out of their homes and into the West End to play six Monday night shows at the Garrick Theatre. The team who turned their last West End performance at the Lyric Theatre in March into an impromptu live-stream event which has been […]
Showstopper! The (Socially Distanced) Improvised Musical LIVE
Showstopper! The (Socially Distanced) Improvised Musical LIVE Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I confess I have never seen The Showstoppers in the flesh though I know many people who have. It’s rather delightful that I saved up my first Showstopper! experience to have it online in this socially distanced world in a […]
Showstoppers to return with second socially distanced improv musical
Improv specialists The Showstoppers are continuing on their mission to keep stay-at-home theatre-lovers entertained by unveiling a second new fully improvised musical online later this month. After selling over 600 tickets, attracting 1,911 content-suggestions and a total of 1,184 views, the team will return for another socially distanced, completely improvised musical on 28 August at […]
Showstoppers to debut new social distanced improv musical
Improv specialists The Showstoppers are continuing on their mission to keep stay-at-home UK entertained by unveiling a brand new fully improvised musical online this week. Following on from their successful song-in-a-day challenges and Alternative Eurovision and Online Storytime adventures, The Showstoppers will live-stream The Socially Distanced Improvised Musical at 7.30 pm on 21 July 2020. […]
Showstoppers launch Online Storytime for lockdown youngsters
Following on from their successful song-in-a-day challenges and alternative Eurovision, improv specialists The Showstoppers have turned their attention to entertaining kids during lockdown with a series of Online Storytime adventures. Armed with dozens of ideas suggested by children aged between three and 13 via social media, The Showstoppers have created a number of interactive musical […]
Derren Brown welcomes new Showstoppers challenge song
Double Olivier Award-winning illusionist Derren Brown has expressed his delight at the results of his challenge to The Showstoppers to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. The latest star to put The Showstoppers to the test had asked the team to create a song inspired by the difficulties of dealing with his […]
Showstoppers to stream alternative Eurovision show
Improvisation specialists The Showstoppers have turned their attention to filling the void left by the cancellation of both the Eurovision Song Contest and its popular home-grown companion piece West End Eurovision. Featuring new songs parodying everyone’s favourite Eurovision styles, The Showstoppers Alternative Eurovision Song Contest will stream live on Facebook from 8pm (GMT) on 15 […]
The Showstoppers’ 24-Hour Challenge song ‘Daddy’s Your Teacher Now!’ wows Ramin Karimloo
West End and Broadway star Ramin Karimloo has expressed his delight at the results of his challenge to The Showstoppers to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. Aided and abetted by his son Hadley, the youngest-ever Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera had challenged the improvisation specialists to create a song […]
Ramin Karimloo issues second 24-hour Showstoppers song challenge
West End and Broadway star Ramin Karimloo has followed Elaine Paige to issue a challenge to The Showstoppers to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. Aided and abetted by his son Hadley, the youngest-ever Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera has challenged the improvisation specialists to create a song about home […]
Watch The Showstoppers’ response to Elaine Paige’s 24-Hour Lockdown Challenge
Elaine Paige has taken to social media again to congratulate The Showstoppers’ team on their response to her challenge to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. The musical theatre legend who asked the improvisation specialists to create a song about home-isolation in the style of her favourite musical, West Side Story has […]
Elaine Paige launches 24-hour Showstoppers song challenge
Elaine Paige has today taken to social media to challenge The Showstoppers team to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. The musical theatre legend has asked the improvisation specialists to create a song about home-isolation in the style of her favourite musical, West Side Story. The finished song will be unveiled on […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – The Other Palace
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 16 March 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Adam Meggido and Dylan Emery’s Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is an improvised musical that implores the (often ludicrous) whims of the audience to establish setting, storyline and musical numbers at a seconds […]
Other Palace season for award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
The popular Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will celebrate a milestone 1,000th performance during an eight-week limited season at The Other Palace early in 2019. Running from Tuesday 22 January 2019 until Saturday 16 March 2019, the Olivier Award-winning show will bring its own innovative brand of entertainment to Westminster venue following a festive season of […]
Interview – Adam Meggido on bringing Showstopper! The Improvised Musical home to the Edinburgh Fringe
The Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is celebrating its 10th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month, after a sell-out UK and international tour that also runs on into autumn this year. The premise behind Showstopper! is relatively simple, but unique. The writer of the show is told by the theatre owners that his play […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – Apollo Theatre
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues at the Apollo Theatre, London until 29 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some musicals can take years to write – and rewrite – while others can pop into existence spontaneously. But don’t think for one minute that a show crafted over a decade is going to be any more entertaining […]
