A couple of months ago I first took Evil Alex to Mischief Theatre's improv show
Lights! Camera! Improvise! On being told they ask the audience for genre
suggestions, he wanted to know if they ever do a musical (they don't, although they
usually do a song somewhere along the way.) It wasn't long after that I found out
Alex was going to get his wish, as another company were going to bring their
improvised show to the West End; and the
Showstopper! team's USP is that they
exclusively make up musicals. On the spot, a new one every night. Dylan Emery acts
as master of ceremonies and takes suggestions of a theme and style from the
audience. Tonight we ended up with a show about NASA called
Rock-It (a pun
the woman who suggested it hadn't quite intended, but she got a mug as a reward
anyway.) The last two Mischief shows we saw were also sci-fi, so if that's what
audiences keep voting for there's obviously an untapped market somewhere.
