Event Detail

5:45-7:15pm

!Free to all people of all ages and abilities, beginners welcome! Accompanists welcome! This is the 8th BASE Musical Improv. It’s usually monthly and usually on a Wednesday. It’s a supplement to the weekly BASE Improv Comedy and Joke/Sketch workshop Thursdays from 6-8pm. We usually get 5 or 6 people, sometimes 3, sometimes 8 :)

This is a fun, welcoming workshop to improve our skills that relate to improvisational musical theatre. We’ll certainly work on improv, rhythm, pitch, and rhyming. There will be many options for how you would like to participate and you can always step back and watch at any time. Anyone might be teaching, learning, practicing, or supporting in a variety of activities. We will see who shows up and what they're interested in and try to do a little of everything

You can participate how and as much as you want. You can come and go as your schedule allows and take a break when you need one. We will start with some skill-building games for the first part. Next, we’ll take a quick break. Finally, we’ll improvise some songs in various pop and theatrical styles until we feel done. We could also do karaoke or lip-sync at the end as well if anyone wants to practice being on stage without having to improvise yet-- Comment or message me and we can even get your track ready in advance

This workshop meant to be available and valuable to everyone of all skills and abilities :) Since we're working on a wider variety of instrumental, vocal, and improvisational skills, chances are you will find parts of it to be fun, familiar, unfamiliar, challenging, or boring-- sometimes simultaneously. You're welcome to participate in a variety of ways or simply just watch at any moment. Accompanists needed! :)

Let me know what you want to work on or would like to teach us:
singing, rapping, rhyming, beatboxing
exercises, rhythm, pitch, games, dancing
playing instruments to accompany singers
writing songs, special effects, karoke, lip sync, dance

5:45-6:30ish: Beginner/Warmup/Skill-building
Break
6:30ish-(7:15): Improv Songs/Games

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The BASE room is inside the "Warehouse" Building (see picture) at 725 W Alder St. It's just across the train tracks from Draughtworks. Enter the front door (says ‘Garage Tees’). Walk past the stairs and make a right. At the end of the hall is the BASE room.