OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!® is exactly that: a Broadway-style musical that is made up on the spot, based on audience suggestion. So every night is the ‘Opening Night’ of a musical that has never been seen! Running for over 20 years, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® is thrilled to continue as the show LAWeekly called, “almost too slick to be completely improvised”. It is, by the way—completely improvised.
Led by Director Shulie Cowen, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®’s cast combines the Chicago-style improvisation of the iO and The Second City with the Broadway stylings of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Fosse, and many more. Occasionally, they even borrow the 76 trombones from The Music Man. They usually give them back.
Starring: Shulie Cowen, Jonathan Mangum, Hilary Ryan, Norm Thoeming and Branson NeJame.
Cast film and television credits include; Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Let’s Make A Deal, How I Met Your Mother, Reno 911!, and World Cup Comedy.
Led by Director Shulie Cowen, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®’s cast combines the Chicago-style improvisation of the iO and The Second City with the Broadway stylings of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Fosse, and many more. Occasionally, they even borrow the 76 trombones from The Music Man. They usually give them back.
Starring: Shulie Cowen, Jonathan Mangum, Hilary Ryan, Norm Thoeming and Branson NeJame.
Cast film and television credits include; Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Let’s Make A Deal, How I Met Your Mother, Reno 911!, and World Cup Comedy.