The Magnet Theater hosts America’s top musical improvisers at The Sixth Annual New York Musical Improv Festival from October 16 - 19, 2014. This three day event features over 100 performers creating fully improvised musical performances ranging from traditional musical theatre fare to adrenaline-pumping rap battles.
Featured groups include: Baby Wants Candy (NYC), The Improvised Sondheim Project (Chicago), Unscripted Theater (San Francisco), North Coast! (NYC), Anarchy (Chicago), Vox Pop (Washington, D.C.), Mint Condition (NYC), The Armando Diaz Experience: Musical Edition (NYC), Ashland (Chicago), Trudy Carmichael's Musical Mixer (Las Vegas), The Made-Up Musical (NYC), Mansical (Chicago), La Donna Improvvisata (NYC), Basemints (Chicago), Fancy Mantelpiece (NYC), Girls! Girls! Girls! (Austin), Brouhaha: An Improvised Puppet Musical (Chicago), Fancy Man (NYC), Slick Zombie (NYC), Stacked: All-female Musical Improv (Chicago), Off Key Improv (Vancouver, Canada), Wonderland (NYC), Mikki Hommel (NYC).
Special festival events:
Armando Diaz Experience: Musical Edition –Thursday, October 16th at 9:00pm. In this musical edition of the classic “Armando,” an improv form that originated at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic, improvisers work off of the words of a special guest monologist to create a fully realized one night only musical!
Musical Inspirado - Thursday, October 16, at 11:00pm - Billed as, "The only musical improv competition in the world!", pits four musical improv teams: Wonderland (Magnet Theater, NYC), Girls! Girls! Girls! (Institution Theater, Austin), Slick Zombie (PIT, NYC) and Fancy Man (UCB, NYC), against each other in a battle for audience approval.
Trudy Carmichael’s Musical Mixer - Saturday, October 18, at 11:30pm. Hosted by Las Vegas lounge legend, Miss Trudy Carmichael and her trusty sidekick, T.J., backed up by the incomparable Frankie Keys and the Magnet Musical Mixer Orchestra, invites audience members to try their musical improv luck with some of the finest Musical Improvisers in the country.
GILDA’S CLUB BENEFIT SHOW - Sunday, October 19,at 7:00pm. The Festival draws to a close with a special benefit performance in support of Gilda's Club of New York. The event will feature many of the top female musical improv artists in the country as well as guests from Broadway, daytime drama and the world of comedy. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.nymif.com. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Gilda’s Club, NYC.
All performances are at the Magnet Theater, 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues). Show times and descriptions can be found at www.nymif.com and www.magnettheater.com.
