Music Box
America is known for its quality and quantity of live improvisation and many comedians and writers have graduated from Improv groups such as Second City to go on to Saturday Night Live among other TV shows. In America improvisation is considered an art form by many of its die hard fans. In Britain however improvisation has so far taken a back seat to theatre and stand up comedy, but in recent years this has started to change. In London and Brighton improvisation nights have started to spring up here and there and with groups such as Abandonman breaking through in to the mainstream and with Fast and Loose on television is seems that improvised entertainment is finally taking off. Hoopla at The Miller Pub in London Bridge is home to numerous improvisation nights and last week I went to see Music Box a troupe who improvise a musical on the spot with the title taken from audience suggestions. The audience suggestions can of course be anything; white diesel, pigeon war, or in this instance “Squidgy”. The night I saw Music Box I was really impressed by the show. The characters were formed quickly and sustained throughout and were very likeable too. The songs were well sung and often very funny and the humour never relied on smut or lowest common denominator jokes which is sometimes the danger with improvised songs. All the players were great but in particular Steve Roe (a stalwart of all things improvised) was excellent and added a nice dose of surreal humour in to the mix. Also Georgina Bream, playing the lead in this particular musical managed to be funny, sweet, witty and truthful all at once. It would have been easy to make the protagonist in this instance a grotesque character but Bream avoided this and produced a very likeable heroine. All in al this was a lovely, funny and slick night of improvised musical comedy by a talented group.
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