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| Title: | BATS Improv presents: An Improvised Dickens Musical | | Date: | 11/30/2024 (Saturday) | | Address: | Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, Bldg B, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94123 | | Location: | San Francisco, CA | | Hours: | Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 8:00PM 10:00PM PST | | Cost/Cover: | See Details | | Contact Info: | See Details |
| Details: | BATS Improv, San Francisco's center for improvisation, celebrates the holidays this November and December with return of Improvised Dickens Musical, directed by BATS co-founder and company member Brian Lohmann, with musical direction by Joshua Raoul Brody from November 30-December 28 at 8pm at the BATS Bayfront Theatre at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
When the lights come up, the barest of stages is revealed. The players enter, bedecked in elegant Victorian costumes, and a December night on a London street takes shape around them. As they burst into song, you might think this is a scripted musical adaptation of a Dickens story. The truth is its all being made up in the moment; songs, music, characters and story improvised on the spot.
The history of the show is an actual tale of two cities: San Francisco and Los Angeles. Director Brian Lohmann, a founder of BATS Improv in San Francisco, moved south to LA, where he created Dickens Unscripted, a non-musical format, in 2006 and directed it a half dozen times at various Southern California locations. Meanwhile in San Francisco, BATS Improv first presented its own Improvised Dickens Musical format in 2017, and it became a holiday favorite with audiences and players, returning by popular demand during the next two years. The world took a Dickensian turn in 2020, but with the darkness of the pandemic came some light and hope: Brian Lohmann rejoined BATS in 2023, and this years Improvised Dickens Musical represents the melding of two separate, beloved traditions.
When asked what inspires him about the format, Lohmann says, I love the energy of Dickens and Christmas. He wrote several Christmas books about characters trying to figure out how to transform, the way that Nature does from Winter to Spring, but with redemption always possible. That's a great message when so many people feel helpless. He also acted out his books while he wrote them so his characters are hilariously theatrical.
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| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Show | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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