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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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Here is the pitch, and it is a good one: a Broadway guest star walks on stage having rehearsed absolutely nothing, the audience shouts out a title, and then everybody makes up an entire musical on the spot. Songs. Plot. A reprise, if the night is going well. No net.
Shitzprobe has been running this beautiful high-wire act for years at Asylum NYC on East 24th Street, and the guest list reads like a Playbill stack: performers who have led Wicked, Aladdin, Waitress and Company, all of them improvising a musical for the first time in their lives. The regular company are some of the sharpest musical improvisers in the city, with credits across Comedy Central, Adult Swim, and Broadway runs in School of Rock, Groundhog Day, Hair and The Prom, and their job is to catch whatever the guest throws.
Ninety minutes with an intermission, Mondays, in a 150-seat room. It is never the same show twice, which is either the selling point or the risk depending on your temperament. We think it is the selling point.
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