Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Tickets

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical does something no other West End show can promise: a brand-new musical, invented from scratch, every single time. There is no script, no score and no safety net. Instead, the multi-award-winning company takes suggestions from you, the audience, and spins them into a complete original musical on the spot, songs, dance breaks, plot twists and all.

It works like this. At the top of the show the cast asks the room for a setting, a title and a few musical styles, anything from Sondheim to Beyonce, a supermarket to the surface of Mars. Then, backed by a live band reading their every move, the performers conjure an entire two-act musical in real time, complete with hummable numbers, doomed romances and show-stopping finales. Every performance is a genuine world premiere, and every one is different, because the whole thing is built live and never written down.

Born in London in 2008 and honed over more than a decade of sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, two West End seasons and its own BBC Radio 4 series, Showstopper! became the first improvised show ever to win an Olivier Award, taking the prize for Best Entertainment and Family. The real wonder of it is how good the results are: audiences arrive expecting a laugh and leave amazed that something dreamed up on the spot can be this slick, this tuneful and, often, this surprisingly moving.

Why it’s worth the watch

Showstopper! is one of the most joyful, one-of-a-kind nights out in the West End. Here is why it is worth catching:

• A different show every time. Whatever you see, no one has seen it before and no one ever will again.
• You help create it. The musical is built from the audience’s own suggestions, so the room shares in the magic.
• Olivier Award-winning. The first improvised show to win an Olivier, with the polish and heart of a fully staged musical.
• Strictly limited dates. It plays only a handful of special nights at the Cambridge Theatre, so each one is an event.