Theatre
Showstopper!
The Improvised Musical
Every Monday night at 7.30pm from September 2008 to June 2009!
Christmas Special Sunday December 21st at 7.30pm
At The King's Head Theatre
115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN
www.kingsheadtheatre.org
Box Office 0870 890 0149 or 0844 412 2953
Or book online here: www.kingsheadtheatre.org/theatre-sun-mon-night-showstoppers.asp
Following their sell-out Edinburgh run, The Showstoppers are resident at London’s King’s Head Theatre.
Inspired by audience suggestions and entirely improvised from start to finish, Showstopper challenges its performers to ad-lib a complete musical, creating song and dance routines in a variety of styles and genres.
photographs by Georgie Clarke Photography and Gabrielle Motola
Reviews
!!!! CRITICS' CHOICE TIME OUT !!!!!
They truly are the masters of longform improvisation. These guys have to be seen to be believed! More TALENT on stage than you can shake a stick at!'
'Showstopper ROCKS ... As you leave grinning, you will wonder how they can possibly muster such enthusiasm, wit and joie de vivre every night.'
(What's On Stage - ***** Edinburgh 2008)
'Fabulous spontaneity, superb vocals and dialogue that had the audience roaring with laughter. Go and see it!'
(Three Weeks - ***** - Top 13 Shows To See, Edinburgh 2008)
'Just SUBLIME ... Anyone with a love for musicals or comedy should see this show and help create another classic.
'(The Scotsman - Hot Show, Edinburgh 2008) ****
'Jaw-dropping ... GLORIOUS moments of spontaneous creation ... All the big-hit mega-musicals inspire an audience to want to see them more than once. And I'd see Showstopper! again tomorrow.'
(The Times)
'The company includes BRILLIANT practitioners such as Oliver Senton, the blissfully comic Ruth Bratt, the gorgeous Pippa Evans and the untouchable Sean McCann.'
(Michael Coveney, What's On Stage)
'ASTONISHING ... Showstopper! has everything you could want from a blockbuster musical. It just happens to be made up on the spot.'
(Metro)
'I'm just GOBSMACKED! ... A group of fearsomely able improvisers.'
(FT)
Shows so far (All titles selected by the audience):
Tearing Down The World
A young man on an Alaskan oil rig is haunted by his past.
Assassins Of The Sun
Money talks louder than love in the old Wild West.
Ape!
An evolutional tale set in a South American research facility.
The Crater ‘Scape
In the near future, man colonises the moon - but at what cost?
Liars Die Too
Electoral corruption and vote-rigging in Bethnal Green.
The Showstoppers are:
- Christopher Ash
- Duncan Walsh Atkins
- Ruth Bratt
- Dylan Emery
- Pippa Evans
- James Lovelock
- Sean McCann
- Adam Meggido
- Phil Pellew
- Oliver Senton
- Nathan Taylor
- Lucy Trodd
- Guests include Mike McShane and Anthony Ingle.
- Created by Dylan Emery and Adam Meggido
- Produced by Adam Meggido, Dylan Emery and Philippa Goslett
- Choreographic consultant: Donna Berlin
- Operators: Paul Foxcroft, Edmund Sutton
- Press by Ewan Thomson PR
- Production photography by Georgie Clarke and Gabrielle Motola
- With special thanks to Keith Strachan