"Freestyle Love Supreme" - what is it?...

[ChgoTheatreGuy]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 5:46pm

I am very curious about the new show, "Freestyle Love Supreme".  Today on Facebook they claim that it is a hip-hop improv comedy show, will it also include Freestyle music performers?  Has anyone seen it yet?...

[EllieRose2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 5:51pm

It's been around for 15 years, so it's interesting you know nothing about it. Do some research on it, it's very interesting.

 

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 5:58pm

EllieRose2 said: "It's been around for 15 years, so it's interesting you know nothing about it. Do some research on it, it's very interesting.”

 

I’ve never heard of it either, I’m 60yo, and been attending shows for a few years, so an answer other than do some research on it might have been nice from a Forum Member who knows of it and can give some insight. 

[ChgoTheatreGuy]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:09pm

Miss Ellie, For your information, I have tried to find information about the show, even going to the website which tells you absolutely nothing about it...I feel that I am a very educated person when it comes to theatre, unfortunately there are times when I am stumped and doing research about proves useless...

 

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:18pm

Found this from an article on playbill.com:

"Every performance of Freestyle Love Supreme is different; every song in the show is entirely improvised. Over the past 15 years, the hip-hop improv group—formed by college friends Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In The Heights) and Anthony Veneziale, and directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton, In The Heights, Fosse/Verdon)—has grown beyond its original three creators to include the likes of Tony Award–winning performers James Monroe Iglehart and Daveed Diggs, Pitch Perfect’s Utkarsh Ambudkar, and more. And now the group also offers eight-week freestyle classes thanks to Freestyle Love Supreme Academy.

For the nightly show, the cast takes cues from the audience to riff, rap, and cypher (freestyling in a group). Whether it’s a game like TRUE, where one word from the audience forces the cast to tell true personal stories based on that word, or Second Chance, where an audience member offers something they’d like to do over, get ready for a wild and unpredictable night."

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:20pm

Hey, mods! If you want to delete my post, you can also delete the rude, snarky one above that led to my post. Thanks! :)

[A Director]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:24pm

Here's the NY Times review when the show was Off-Broadway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/theater/freestyle-love-supreme-review.html?auth=login-email&login=email

[EllieRose2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:24pm

It's an improv comedy show in which people from the audience shout things out and.....they rap about it. There ya go! Easily on about 5000 websites including the TITLE of the show. Again, 15 years, been all over the country. It's pretty much sold out though, so no problems here. 

 

 www.freestylelovesurpreme.com

Thanks mods!

[LegallyBroadway2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:30pm

We are supposed to know all about some college hip hop club?

Okay.

Updated On: 9/13/19 at 06:30 PM

[Steven A2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:31pm

EllieRose2 said: "It's an improv comedy show in which people from the audience shout things out and.....they rap about it. There ya go! Easily on about 5000 websites including the TITLE of the show. Again, 15 years, been all over the country. It's pretty much sold out though, so no problems here.



www.freestylelovesurpreme.com

Thanks mods! "

Now that wasn't so hard to do, was it?

[BOM]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:34pm

Thank you all for the info. Will definitely be sitting this one out. Hope all who see it enjoy though.

[Impossible2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 6:39pm

Noise x

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 7:05pm

The show's website gives a full description of the show in 2 different places on the site.

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 7:12pm

Sounds like every improv comedy group like The Groundlings, UCB or Second City except instead of doing comedy routines based on what you shout out, they rap, and instead of paying $15 and the cost of 2 drinks, you pay $169. Cool!

[Pose2]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 7:25pm

 For your information, I have tried to find information about the show, even going to the website which tells you absolutely nothing about it...

I found the information immediately and as uncageg said, it gives details in two different places on their official site. The info on this has been online for many years, and has had hundreds of articles written about the Broadway run for months now. 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 9:51pm

No one has to see anything, and I realize in some quarters it is considered cool to be dismissive of things, but I have seen it a number of times and it has been brilliant in each instance. To me, this falls in the category of "your loss" but ...

[A Director]

Posted: 9/13/19 at 11:53pm

It must be so cool to be uncool.

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 12:00am

I feel like you don't really get an idea of the show unless you see it, so here is a clip from the TV show from a few years ago. Obviously not the only thing they are doing, but it makes more sense than the description imo, as the first half of it just feels like they are trying to name drop anyone who could be there, but probably won't. Still, these guys are greatly talented and it looks like a great show. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElD6Pk3G-_0

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 12:39am

North Coast does it better and much cheaper

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 1:39am

DoTheDood said: "I feel like you don't really get an idea of the show unless you see it, so here is a clip from the TV show from a few years ago. Obviously not the only thing they are doing, but it makes more sense than the description imo, as the first half of it just feels like they are trying to name drop anyone who could be there, but probably won't. Still, these guys are greatly talented and it looks like a great show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElD6Pk3G-_0"

 

I was on the fence about this show but if the rest of the show is like this it's an easy skip for me unless there's a really cheap online lotto. 

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 2:21am

Broadway Joe said: "I was on the fence about this show but if the rest of the show is like this it's an easy skip for me unless there's a really cheap online lotto."

I should have mentioned this in the first post, but other videos of FLS might show them off better (as there is a lot of FLS content on YT and elsewhere). Chris and Lin are not even regulars at the show with it's current run so I don't know if the video I picked was the best. Still yeah I don't know if the price for this show is low enough to convince me to go either.

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 6:16am

DoTheDood said: "I feel like you don't really get an idea of the show unless you see it, so here is a clip...“

 

I could read descriptions from websites all freaking day long and never quite understand what it really is, but a video? THANKS for the link, which of course leads to several other videos, which makes this show an easy skip for me too. Definitely not my cup of tea, and how did this show end up on Broadway? Seems more like a nightclub lounge-act kind of thing and not something I’d pay more than $15 to see. And if it’s my loss not seeing it, so aren’t most of the shows on Broadway which I also have zero interest to see that are all the rave and must-sees. To each his own. And I’m def not tryin to b kool and dismissive.  

 

[kennin]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 8:56am

ChgoTheatreGuy said: "I am very curious about the new show, "Freestyle Love Supreme". Today on Facebook they claim that it is a hip-hop improv comedy show, will it also include Freestyle music performers? Has anyone seen it yet?..."

i went to the first preview last night.   It was a lot of fun.  James Monroe Iglehart was one of the performers.   He was not in the playbill or listed anywhere as being part of the cast.  Maybe he was that night’s guest although they kept referring to another performer as the guest.  The cast took audience suggestions including the story of one woman’s day and turned it into rap and hip-hop.   It was light hearted and a lot of fun   The audience was really into it   The 90 minutes flew by.   As far as the phone cases, it was fairly easy   When you walked into the theater, they took your phone and put it into a pouch and locked it.  After the show, they just tapped the pouch on a magnet that opened the case.  Each audience member, then, would remove the phone from the pouch and put it in a container.  There was a little back-up at some points getting people into the theater but the show had started by 8:10.  A couple issues:  1) My partner’s phone was difficult to get into the case and I know that there are bigger phones that what he has.  2) I left my phone with my partner and went to the rest room   Two people questioned me when I came back in.  They wanted me to show them my phone in the pouch and were a little rude about it   3) The flash that went off at the end of the show when the theater went dark showed that you can get around it.   It was interesting to see an audience talking and interacting and not staring at phones before the show.

 

[IAMREADING]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 7:43pm

when NBC's comedy streaming network Seeso was around they had a updated version of the freestyle love supreme show with lin, chris jackson etc. and it was basically them making up rap songs on the spot

[IAMREADING]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 7:44pm

UncleCharlie said: "Sounds like every improv comedy group like The Groundlings, UCB or Second City except instead of doing comedy routines based on what you shout out, they rap, and instead of paying $15 and the cost of 2 drinks, you pay $169. Cool!"

at least the performers in this show are getting paid unlike at UCB. 

not sure policies at Groundlings or Second City.