Showstoppers bring The Improvised Musical to Horsham

They will be at The Capitol on Saturday, October 16.

Showstopper Dylan Emery explains: “The entire point of the show is that it must all be improvised using audience suggestions. The whole point is what would a fully-scripted fully-choreographed musical look like if it was made up on the spot? The audience literally have to give us everything and it has to be incredibly precise. We need a theatre that looks like a theatre and lighting that can be improvised on the fly and we have got a band that are improvising in the moment… everything that makes it look like a proper musical.

“When we first started doing this, we wanted to give it a fairly strict structure, Act One, Act Two, Act Three, but then we realised that if we had a strict structure then the show itself would start feeling familiar in that it was often a young person who would leave a thing and then go and do a thing, so we decided not to do that. We start with no idea where it will go, whether it will be a romcom or a thriller or a big war epic. We have to be utterly open to where the audience goes.