Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is on tour

The incredible ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ is on a nationwide tour and this includes a monthly residency at the West End’s Lyric Theatre and a month long run at Edinburgh Festival in August. Spontaneous musical comedy at its finest, it is the first ever long-form improv show to have a full West End run and to be nominated and win an Olivier Award! Completely improvised and genuinely entirely different every night this is a must see show!

For those that haven’t yet experienced the live phenomenon that is ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’, it is a fully-realised musical created live on the spot from audience suggestions. The cast transform from suggestions of setting, genre and style with ingenious storylines and hilarious characters. The audience also name that night’s show, which is added to The Showstoppers’ archive. From Pink Floyd to Stephen Sondheim, via a school, Ancient Egypt or a mattress shop – if the audience can suggest it, The Showstoppers will perform it. It’s hugely funny to watch.

The group are long running, well known and renowned for their improvisation work. Most cast members have also received acclaim in their own right. The Showstoppers have been working on the show since 2008, figuring out how to improvise in increasingly esoteric styles, musical, dance, straight theatre, and film genres to name but a few.

The show has been at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the past 12 years and now has a reputation as a ‘Must See’ Edinburgh Fringe show. It had a 8-week run at London’s Other Palace in early 2019 and continues to play monthly at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. In the Autumn of 2015, it became the first longform improv show to have a full run in the West End at the Apollo Theatre.

LONDON’S WEST END DATES @ LYRIC THEATRE: 25^th April/ 23^RD May/ 20^th June / 18^th July/ 26^th September / 24^thOctober/Mon 12^th December @ 7.30pm

https://nimaxtheatres.com/shows/showstopper-the-improvised-musical-lyric/

EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL @ PLEASANCE COURTYARD – THE GRAND – 3^rd – 28^th August (not 16^th)

APRIL

Fri 1^st STAFFORD – The Gatehouse Theatre @ 7.30pm

Sat 23^rd YORK – Theatre Royal @ 7.30pm

Thurs 28^th COLCHESTER – Mercury @ 7.30pm

MAY

Sun 1^st SALFORD – The Lowry – @ 4pm & 8pm

Thu 12^th TUNBRIDGE WELLS – Trinity Theatre

Fri 13^th TUNBRIDGE WELLS – Trinity Theatre

Sat 7^th STOKE ON TRENT – The Regent Theatre @ 7.30pm

Thurs 19^th AYLESBURY – Waterside Theatre @ 7.30pm