VIRTUAL AND INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
Baby Wants Candy and our spinoff show Shamilton are two of the most celebrated and popular musical improv comedy shows. And our cast has taught thousands of students, at all age ranges and experience levels, at high schools, colleges and universities: all now available over Zoom.
Workshops are designed to teach the skills to improvise your own comedic musical, starting with the comedy basics of song form, narrative structure, performance elements, together with the improv techniques required to put on a made-up musical. No experience or musical background is required as all programs are levelled to ensure an energizing experience with a fast paced, fun and supportive environment that builds confidence in listening and performance skills. All programs include an original private performance from our cast!
Contact our producer to learn more about how to plan a virtual training workshop!
‘ THANK YOU SO MUCH. That was such a special experience for our students. In this weird, wild time, I watched students connect and engage in ways that originally inspired me to become a teacher. One student told his Mom that this was one of the best things that has happened since the quarantine.’
David Bloom, Drama Teacher Chadwick School
Shamilton!
Improvised Hip Hop Workshop
Freestyle Rap in Improv from the cast of Shamilton! This workshop will teach you how to pull characters and ideas from improv scenes and let them loose with the glory of hip-hop. Learn to let rap fuel your scenes and scenes fuel your rap. Experience? Not necessary. Mad swagger? Definitely required.
Beginner & Advanced Musical Improv
Beginning Musical Improv: Jump into musical improv comedy with a fun, fast-paced workshop in a challenging yet supportive environment. Students learn the fundamentals of longform improv scenework and basics skills for improvising clever songs: a strong idea, an identifiable structure, and lyrical tricks like rhyming and metaphor. Students will put then these skills to use by improvising full comedic scenes and songs along with a partner
Advanced Musical Improv: The Game of the Song: Discover the simple joy and comedic power of game-driven songs. Using two fundamental structures (verse/chorus and lastline tagline), participants will explore the ridiculous fun that comes through effortlessly heightening the lyrical, emotional, physical, situational and musical patterns that present themselves in the moments leading up to a song. We’ll play with the emotional and reactive scenic building blocks that lead to the best improvised songs. Experience how the success of the song is virtually guaranteed before the first note is even sung.
Creating Musical Comedies
Members of Baby Wants Candy created and led a semester long course as part of Princeton University’s Atelier Program, which was focused on creating scripted musical songs and musicals. We have distilled this program into a 2-3 hour workshop, now available over Zoom!