Coup de Comedy 2024

OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!® is exactly that: a Broadway-style musical that is made up on the spot, based on audience suggestion. So every night is the ‘Opening Night’ of a musical that has never been seen! Now in its 25th year, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® is thrilled to continue as the show LAWeekly called, “almost too slick to be completely improvised”. It is, by the way—completely improvised.

Led by Director Shulie Cowen, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®’s cast combines the Chicago-style improvisation of the iO and The Second City with the Broadway stylings of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Fosse, and many more. Occasionally, they even borrow the 76 trombones from The Music Man. They usually give them back.

Cast film and television credits include; Whose Line Is It Anyway?, UJokes, That 80s Show, How I Met Your Mother, Let’s Make A Deal, Reno 911!, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Mad TV, and World Cup Comedy.

The Coup de Comedy Cast:
Shulie Cowen (director)
Ithamar Enriquez
Jonathan Mangum
Lauren Pritchard
Music by Jonathan Dinerstein (Piano)

“Come back again and again — you’ll laugh every time.” (LA Weekly Best of 2010)

Visit their website at: www.improvisedmusical.com 

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are highly recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)