SPONTANEOUS BROADWAY
Spontaneous Broadway ™ created by Kat Koppett in association with Freestyle Repertory Theatre Co.
At The Mopco Improv Theatre, Spring 2024
TheaterWeek Magazine named Kat Koppett one of the year's "Unsung Heroes" for her creation of Spontaneous Broadway, which is now performed all over the world.
ACT ONE: a backer’s audition* with a twist: this year, renowned producer Mick Treadwell has received so much GREAT material he is stumped. Which show should he bring to Broadway?
What really happens:
During Act I of the show, audience members suggest song titles, and our improvisers use those suggestions to create numbers from musicals that have not yet been written. The audience invests/votes, with the checks provided, on their favorite show.
ACT TWO: Opening night of (the swinning show) at the Treadwell Theatre on Broadway. You, the backers, are the honored guests, and the improvisors turn the winning number into a full musical, complete with costumes, sets, props, dances, and a reprise of the made-up musical number that inspired the show.
*WHAT IS A BACKER’S AUDITION?
Backer's Auditions: Finding the Money (https://www.musicals101.com/make3.htm)
“…In the end it all comes down to money. The best script and most exciting score won't get anywhere until someone raises the millions of dollars required to make a show happen. As Max Bialystock puts it in The Producers, "Can't produce play without checkee." For better or worse, Bialystock's batallion of wealthy, lonely little old ladies don't exist (and never did). Producers have to work like hell to raise a few million…It now takes teams of producers to find enough investors. The Broadway version of The Producers (2001) had eight individual producers plus two multi-producer groups. Hadestown (2019) required more than 40 producers.
Each producer raises a percentage of the necessary cash, often holding parties where potential investors can hear highlights of the new musical performed by…probable cast members. This process can take months or even years, and there is no guarantee sufficient funds will ever be raised…”
But in THIS world, of Spontaneous Broadway, there is only one producer, and one set of generous investers: YOU, the valued guests at tonight’s show.
