Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Schedule
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Pier Gardens, NR31 6PP Gorleston-on-Sea, United Kingdom | Yarmouth, EN
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a fully-realized musical created live from audience suggestions. The show has everything you could possibly want from a West End musical – sweeping storylines, dazzling dance, soaring songs, hilarious characters – the only difference is that we make everything up on the spot. The show is 100% improvised from audience suggestions. The cast transform suggestions of setting, genre and style into an all-singing, all-dancing musical. The audience also get to name the show each night, with popular past titles including a musical set on Noah’s Ark called ‘When The Ship Hits The Fan’ and a musical set in Greggs called ‘Sex and Drugs and Sausage Roll’.
From Hamilton to Stephen Sondheim, via a school, Ancient Egypt or a mattress shop – if the audience can suggest it, The Showstoppers will perform it.
Winner – Olivier Award: Best Entertainment and Family (2016)
Winner – Chortle Award: Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act (2016)
The Times Best of the Fringe 2013 (Theatre)
Winner – Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit Of The Fringe Award 2009
Nominated – Chortle Best Music or Variety Act 2011
Nominee – Best Production – MTM Awards 2009
Nominee – Judges’ Discretionary Award – MTM Awards 2009
‘So polished, it defies belief.’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph
‘Achingly funny…worth seeing again and again.’ ★★★★★ Time Out
‘If this is what improv can do, you wonder why anyone bothers writing anything down.’ ★★★★ The Times
