The incredible ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ is on a nationwide tour. 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 who haven’t yet experienced the live phenomenon that is ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’, the show is a fully realised musical created on the spot from audience suggestions. The cast transform suggestions for settings, genres, musical styles and even the name of the show into ingenious storylines with hilarious characters. From Pink Floyd to Stephen Sondheim, via a primary 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, including musical, dance, straight theatre, and film genres to name but a few.
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, for which it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment & Family Show.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ will also be returning to its home at The Grand in the Pleasance Courtyard for the month of August. Returning to where it made its name and continuing to delight audiences of the Edinburgh Fringe on a daily basis, with a new show every day!
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
@ The Pleasance Courtyard – Grand
2nd 27th August (except 15th)
Previews – 2nd & 3rd August
9.10pm (runs 70 mins)
The dates are as follows:
JUNE
Thursday 1st June – Camberley Theatre (7.30pm)
Monday 5th June – WEST END (7.30pm)
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th June – Sheffield Lyceum (7.45pm)
Monday 26th June – WEST END (7.30pm)
JULY
Saturday 1st July – Exeter Northcott (7.30pm)
Friday 14th July – Lichfield Garrick (7.30pm)
Sunday 16th July – Norwich Playhouse (2.30pm & 7.30pm times TBC)
Monday 17th July – WEST END (7.30pm)
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 23rd September – Lighthouse Poole (7.30pm)
OCTOBER
Wednesday 11th October – Mercury Colchester (7.30pm)
Friday 13th October & Sunday 14th October – Horsham Capitol
Monday 16th October – WEST END
Monday 30th October – WEST END
NOVEMBER
Monday 13th November – WEST END
Thursday 16th November – Victoria Theatre, Halifax (8pm)
Monday 27th November – WEST END
DECEMBER
Monday 18th December – WEST END
