For the casual audience member, improv shows are a gamble. For every wide-eyed UCB student with a copy of “Bossypants” and a memory of the perfect TJ and Dave set, there’s a disillusioned co-worker named Phil with a horror story about seeing an all-plaid gaggle of dudes named “Deepak Oprah.” Improv, for the general public, is often a tough sell.
But we might have it a little tougher as a musical improv duo.
Unless you’re Wayne Brady’s mom, musical improv probably isn’t on your radar. So, let us pitch you! “Your Love, Our Musical!” is a two-person show in which we, Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman, select a couple from the audience, interview them, and then improvise a musical about their love story on the spot.
Our show is a year old. We’ve had a string of successful shows at the Peoples Improv Theater, performed at bridal showers, and just recently sold out our 2015 Fringe Festival run. On several occasions we’ve received improv’s highest compliment: “That was scripted, right?”
But it wasn’t always sold-out Fringe Festival runs and Scrooge McDuck vaults of money. (It still isn’t that, actually.) We love musical improv and
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