Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
From: Saturday, 10th July 2010
To: Saturday, 10 July 2010
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Synopsis
A writer has just one hour to create a hit show to impress his producer. Stuck for ideas, he takes audience suggestions for a title, storylines and musical styles that they'd like to see in the show. The Showstoppers then create a musical from scratch based around that structure. Utterly unpredictable, frequently side-splittingly funny, packed with drama and featuring dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies, Showstopper! leaves delighted audiences singing all the way home.
Our Review:
11 July 2010
Improvisation tests the extent to which performers can cope without a script or rehearsal and respond to events whilst maintaining a coherent and hopefully entertaining narrative. The technique can be adversarial and cause the performers to try and up-stage one another or self-indulgent and result in them entertaining themselves rather than the audience.
Co-directors Dylan Emery and Adam Meggido (who also perform) ensure that Showstopper! avoids such selfishness and delivers a relentlessly funny evening. Sean McCann is, in effect, the taskmaster who sets out the rules of the improvisation and specifies the manner in which the work must be performed. He plays the hapless writer who is faced with ruin when fear of litigation from Elvis’ estate leads to the cancellation of his musical Blue Suede Soles.
Stuck for ideas McCann is forced to come up with a musical based upon sugges...
Creative
Dylan Emery (Author)
Adam Meggido (Author)
Showstopper Productions (Producer)
The Sticking Place (Producer)
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