Check out with the press is saying about Broadway’s Next Hit Musical
BISTRO AWARDS
Penelope Thomas - 07/19/22
You know that gothic musical, Haunted Garden, and its brooding lament that’s been done to death: The Pavement Grows Flowers While Our Garden Is Empty? It’s a chestnut in the American Songbook.
FRONT ROW CENTER
Ed Kliszus - 07/21/22
Tonight’s host Greg Triggs welcomed the audience and announced that tonight is Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, but also the 128th Annual Phony awards. Triggs was a great host, sort of a cross between Don Rickles and Jack Benny without the insults. He joked and played with words and sounds throughout the evening and maintained the excitement and fun with his comedic introductions and observations.
THE NEW YORK BEACON
Ernece B. Kelly - 06/20/19
The Jerry Orbach Theater in the West 50s is hosting Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, a hilarious slice of improvisation theatre, featuring four actors, an emcee and a pianist. All are first-rate!
BISTRO AWARDS
Robert Windeler - 06/06/19
Satirical improvisation based on audience suggestions is tricky enough when it merely involves words and actions in unrelated set pieces. But add impromptu music, lyrics, and a quirky overarching theme to the mix, and you really have a challenge. It’s one that, by and large, this cast of four composer-performers was well up to the night I saw their show, Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, at the Jerry Orbach Theater. Their spoofing concept is both original and relatable, and their talent for impromptu composing, singing, and acting is quite remarkable. Their audience was equally up to the challenge, both contributing and responding heartily.
THE ROYAL GAZETTE
Mike Jones - 03/06/19
Broadway’s Next Hit Musical presented an evening of hilarious improvised theatre, delivered in two parts.
First, a music competition among four songs from non-existent musicals vied for a coveted “Phony Award”. The song titles, supplied by the audience, were drawn at random from a glass bowl and then handed over to the actors for performance.
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Vejay Steede - 03/04/19
“You had to be there.” It’s a phrase designed to describe the indescribable. If you hear it, you know that whatever is being talked about was, in a word, unique. Well, that’s really the only way that Broadway’s Next Hit Musical can be described; unique as all get out, with a dash of … “You had to be there.”
DICKENSON COUNTY NEWS
Doris Welle - 05/01/18
Music lovers entered the Lauridsen Performing Arts Theatre Thursday night to experience a musical unlike anything we have experienced here in northwest Iowa before.
BROADWAYWORLD.COM
Paul Bolton - 02/28/18
You're in store for an evening of fitful laughter and side-splitting fun as a group of improve impresarios reveal a new show each night in Broadway's Next H!T Musical. A fishbowl awaits audience members as they enter and are encouraged to come up with some creative song titles for the evening's magic.
KCMetropolis.org
Jessie Riggins - 02/28/18
Filling about half of the house in the new Cohen Community Stage at Starlight Theatre, the crowd nervously chatted about the answers they filled out in the lobby. Sitting on all of the tables was a chance to make up a song title to be performed that night. This is where the hilarity of the show Broadway’s Next H!t Musical comes from: audience suggestions. In an improv musical--and yes, that is a thing—not only are comedians telling a story based on audience suggestions, but they are also setting those as lyrics in a night of roll-on-the-floor, “did they really just pull that off?” laughter.
NEWTON DAILY NEWS
Pam Rogers - 04/18/16
I have always admired people who could perform improv scenes. In high school speech, I watched my brother and fellow teammates draw scenarios out of a hat and make the viewers laugh. It was impressive to watch. I was even more impressed when I watched professional actors give a 90 minute musical performance at the Temple for Performing Arts Tuesday in Des Moines completely unscripted. The cast of “Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” gave a delightful performance that had me laughing out loud. I had heard of such shows before, but I hadn’t had the opportunity to attend one until now.