SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL Comes To Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre
The performance is on Thursday 15 May.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will visit the Stephen Joseph Theatre next month. Spontaneous musical comedy at its finest, this is the first ever long-form improv show to have a full West End run and to win an Olivier Award. It can be seen at the Scarborough theatre on Thursday 15 May.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a fully realised musical created on the spot from audience suggestions. The cast take ideas for settings, genres, musical styles and the show title and weave it into ingenious storylines with hilarious characters.
From Lin Manuel Miranda to Stephen Sondheim, whether it's set in a primary school, Ancient Egypt, or a mattress shop – if the audience thinks it, The Showstoppers can turn it into a hit musical.
The majority of the cast have much acclaim, with founder member Ruth Bratt being part of the famous Comedy Store Players, the longest running improv show in the country, while Pippa Evans is a regular on BBC Radio 4, has toured with I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and wrote Now That's What I Call a Musical!(currently on a UK tour). The pilot of Hopping, a new comedy from Lucy Trodd and Susan Harrison, aired on BBC Radio 4, and Matt Cavendish appeared on this year's Royal Variety Performance with Mischief Theatre's A Comedy About Spies. Co-founder Adam Meggido directed the West End and Broadway hit show Peter Pan Goes Wrong. The talented West End star Miracle Chance (Roald Dahl's The Witches at The National Theatre, Veronica Sawyer in Heathers at The Other Palace) has just joined the cast.
The Showstoppers also regularly run improvisation workshops and courses for beginners and professionals and have a successful podcast – The Showstopper! Podcast – with recent guests including Zizi Strallen, Rufus Hound and Reuben Kaye.
The Showstoppers have created more than 1,000 brand new musicals since they were formed in 2008 but they don't stop working hard at their craft – they have to learn to improvise in the style of every hit show that comes to town, and they always encourage audiences to challenge them and keep them on their toes. As a result, they continue fill theatres, delight audiences and win awards. In 2024 they were in the Top 10 best reviewed shows of the entire Edinburgh Fringe – for the second year running – no mean feat in their 15th year selling out the Pleasance Grand!
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