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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Date & TimeFri 17 Oct, 2025
Production CompanyShowstopper Productions Ltd
CategoryMusical
VenueTheatre
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a fully-realized musical created live from audience suggestions. The show has everything you could possibly want from a West End musical – sweeping storylines, dazzling dance, soaring songs, hilarious characters – the only difference is that we make everything up on the spot. 

The show is 100% improvised from audience suggestions. The cast transform suggestions of setting, genre and style into an all-singing, all-dancing musical. The audience also get to name the show each night, with popular past titles including a musical set on Noah’s Ark called ‘When The Ship Hits The Fan’ and a musical set in Greggs called ‘Sex and Drugs and Sausage Roll’. 

From Hamilton to Stephen Sondheim, via a school, Ancient Egypt or a mattress shop – if the audience can suggest it, The Showstoppers will perform it.

  • Winner – Olivier Award: Best Entertainment and Family (2016) 
  • Winner – Chortle Award: Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act (2016) 
  • The Times Best of the Fringe 2013 (Theatre) 
  • Winner – Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit Of The Fringe Award 2009 
  • Nominated – Chortle Best Music or Variety Act 2011 
  • Nominee – Best Production – MTM Awards 2009 
  • Nominee – Judges’ Discretionary Award – MTM Awards 2009

‘So polished, it defies belief.’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph 
‘Achingly funny…worth seeing again and again.’ ★★★★★ Time Out 
‘If this is what improv can do, you wonder why anyone bothers writing anything down.’ ★★★★ The Times

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