The 2025 Miami Improv Festival presents HERE: The (Improvised) Musical

Musical Improv
Chicago, IL/Columbus, OH

"HERE: The (Improvised) Musical is one of Chicago’s most lauded shows and one of the most celebrated shows globally in the artform. HERE is the original two-person improvised musical with Tara DeFrancisco & Rance Rizzutto; Chicago Tribune Critic-Recommended (the highest ranked improv show), Chicago Sun Times “Not to Be Missed”, and deemed “Nothing Short of Genius” by NPR, this show has been brought to 24 countries and 88 cities worldwide so far. The actors and the show have been featured in all the above publications, as well as 614 Magazine, Columbus Alive, Dispatch, Columbus Underground, The Chicago Free Press, Time Out Chicago, and many more locally around the world. HERE is known for residencies in two theatres: iO Chicago in Illinois, and The Nest Theatre in Columbus OH, as a featured mainstage act around ongoing tours.

In HERE, Tara + Rance get one suggestion to create theme through an opening number, design characters and storylines inspired by that theme, and effortlessly weave the strings together to discover one piece. Funny, beautiful, and charming, HERE “has shown something new and amazing is possible in improvisation” and has been called groundbreaking by audiences around the globe. / In addition to this show, Tara + Rance also perform a longform improvisational show called NOW that features high energy intersections and character driven joy focused on work from their tenured career as stage performers as longform/shortform/Harold clinicians."

Host or Publisher Miami Improv Festival