SHOW: Unofficial! Improv Musical – Frederick, MD at Maryland Ensemble Theater
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Close your tabs, step away from screens, and catch comedy live on the Key Stage. MET Comedy Night hosts top improv teams from Baltimore and DC for two nights of unscripted performance.
Friday Lineup: Unofficial + More to Come
Tickets: https://i.ovationtix.com/35900/production/1286744?performanceId=11854574
Where: Maryland Ensemble Theatre, 31 West Patrick Street, Frederick, MD • 301-694-4744
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It’s Unofficial, an indie improvised musical that doesn’t need approval. Every show is completely unauthorized, unscripted, and unrepeatable.Expect story-driven performances with wild characters and grand story arcs, original songs, clever lyrics, and surprising twists.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
What Is an Improvised Musical?
An improvised musical is just like a regular musical, but every song, scene, and character is made up right there on stage. When you come to one of our shows, you’ll see performers create full songs and tell a story and it's all without a script Each musical is one-of-a-kind, so you’ll never see the same show twice.
What Will I See at a Show?
At our shows, you’ll watch as we build an improvised musical from scratch. We take one word from the audience to get started, and then we make up everything: characters, conflicts, resolutions, and, of course, improvised songs.
Is It Really Improvised?
Yes! It’s all completely improvised. Nothing is planned ahead of time. Every line, every scene, and every song is made up on the spot. We love the challenge of making it all work together, and the audience’s suggestion helps guide us.
ABOUT THE MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE
MET’s first play was produced in 1997; however, the true beginning of the organization was through the formation of The Comedy Pigs sketch comedy/improv troupe that first performed in April of 1993. Our group began teaching classes in Acting and Improvisation in 1995, piloted our main-stage program with the Ensemble creation Finally Heard! Heroines of an Uncivil War in the summer of 1997, and opened our first theatre space and a full season of plays in June of 1998.
Since 1997, MET has created over fifty original plays including Finally Heard, Skin Deep, the musical Planet Claire, Democracy a Work in Progress, Something Brilliant Will Come to Us, Exuviae, Pickle My Monkey, Oedipus Rox!, South & Saints, a number of children’s theatre plays including The Rainforest Adventure, Cyranosa- the Story of a Girl and her Nose, Mother Goose on the Loose, The Star Stealer, Pirates of Pelican Point, Trolls, and countless comedy sketches and original songs (including the Comedy Pigs parody song Weiner Dog which was seen on the national cable channel Comedy Central).
Our ensemble of 30+ actors, directors, writers, musicians, technicians, and designers assist in all areas of production and administration. We have a full time staff of 9. Our facility is a 93 seat black box theatre, a second stage seating 72, a classroom/rehearsal space, a 16 person dressing room, costume shop, scene shop, box and offices.