The Mop & Bucket Company Presents Spontaneous Broadway!

[Alexander]

My Improv Troupe is starting a run of Spontaneous Broadway TONIGHT, April 17, 2009 at Proctors Upstairs in beautiful Schenectady, NY! Here's how it breaks down...

The audience is at a "backer's audition" where Mick Treadwell (troupe founder Michael Burns, the dude with the cigar in the pic) is presenting a series of potential new musicals for consideration. Based on audience suggestions, the cast improvises eight or nine songs from these new shows. At the end of the first act, the audience votes for the song they liked best. Based on that song, we then improvise a 45-minute musical in the second act, including costumes, sets, and even choreography! We do absolutely no planning during the intermission, other than reviewing what the improviser said when he or she set up the original song (which is also reprised in the second act), deciding on the setting of the opening number, and choosing an improviser to set and lead the chorus. That's it. That's all we plan. We don't assign roles, lay out the plot or anything. It's incredibly challenging and delightful!

If you live in the Capital Region, or will be visiting during the run of the show, please come down! It's great fun!

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[Alexander]

Last night's show was amazingly successful! The house was quite full (65 seats in a 100 seat house...not too shabby, considering the economic pinch) and we absolutely killed! The improvised musical was called "Narcissists Anonymous," set in a health spa in modern day L.A. in which a group of self-obsessed celebrities learn about loving themselves a little less...

Very funny stuff, although (as with most improv) it's one of those, "You had to be there" things.

If you're in the Captial Region tonight, come on down! It's a completely different show every night!