One of the last West End shows to be cancelled before lockdown in March, The Showstoppers turned their final performance at the Lyric Theatre into an impromptu online live stream event, which has since been viewed more than 112,000 times. During lockdown The Showstoppers have been keeping their fans entertained with live streams - some... Continue Reading →
News: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical announces four livestream events in October
With over 1,200 tickets sold and 3,000 suggestions for musical theatre styles, songs and settings for their socially distanced livestreams to date, Olivier Award winners and Fringe favourites The Showstoppers return to your home screens with four completely improvised musicals this October. Using state-of-the-art technology and maintaining rigorous social distancing, these incredibly talented performers will take... Continue Reading →
Review: Showstopper! The (Socially Distanced) Improvised Musical, Online
Award-winning improv group The Showstoppers have certainly been keeping busy in lockdown. In addition to accepting musical challenges from the likes of Elaine Paige and Jenna Russell, earlier this year the group held a hilarious Alternative Eurovision Song Contest which went down a storm. And with no set opening date for many theatres around the... Continue Reading →
News: Olivier Award-winning Showstoppers present interactive, musical Online Storytime
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has been a rip-roaring success since 2008 with two West End runs, an Olivier award, a BBC Radio 4 series and 12 sell-out years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Now The Showstoppers’ are turning their improv talents to entertain kids during lockdown with a series of ‘Online Storytime’ adventures. Armed with dozens... Continue Reading →
News: The Showstoppers compose new musical theatre song ‘Hello Sorry’ in 24 hours after Jenna Russell challenge
Yesterday, Olivier award-winning superstar Jenna Russell became the latest West End star to challenge The Showstoppers to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. Following Ramin Karimloo, Elaine Paige and Derren Brown, Jenna, who was due to star with Imelda Staunton and Andy Nyman in ‘Hello, Dolly!’ in the West End this summer,... Continue Reading →
News: The Showstoppers’ Alternative Eurovision Song Contest raises £7,400 for The Care Workers’ Charity
Staged as a tribute to this year’s cancelled Eurovision Song Contest, Olivier Award-winning musical comedy improvisers The Showstoppers raised £7,400 on Friday evening for the Care Workers’ Charity by delivering their very own Alternative Eurovision Song Contest. Featuring brand new songs parodying familiar Eurovision genres, The Showstoppers recreateed the OTT production values, high camp, and... Continue Reading →
Review: The Showstoppers’ Alternative Eurovision Song Contest
The month of May usually sees people in Europe (and, more recently, Australia) come together to celebrate one of the ‘quirkier’ nights in the music calendar: the Eurovision Song Contest. However as a result of the coronavirus outbreak this year’s event – due to be held in the Netherlands – has been cancelled; the first... Continue Reading →
News: Elaine Paige launches 24-hour song challenge with The Showstoppers
West End and Broadway star Elaine Paige today launches the 24-Hour Song Challenge by challenging The Showstoppers to compose her a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. At 11am via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Elaine threw down the gauntlet for the Olivier Award-winning improvisers to compose a song about having to stay isolated at... Continue Reading →
News: Hoopla offers online improv classes
It’s often said that laughter is the best medicine and, Hoopla, the UK’s first improv theatre, are injecting comedy into the current crisis with online improv classes for those on lockdown. Following the cancellation of their normal workshops and the delay to their annual improv festival, the company have created online drop-in sessions, bringing improvisation... Continue Reading →
News: Improbable Announces First Ever iii! (International Institute of Improvisation) Summer Academy
Lee Simpson and Phelim McDermott, Improbable's Artistic Directors, have been at the forefront of the unfolding story of improvisation since the mid 1980s, leading impro into new forms, widening its scope and taking it to places it wouldn’t otherwise have gone; everywhere from scrappy rooms above pubs to grand operatic stages. They have used improvisation... Continue Reading →