Tag: Laughter

  • High School Field Trips Times Square NYC Improv Comedy Shows, Workshops & Broadway Classroom- NYC DOE VENDOR

    High School Field Trips Times Square NYC Improv Comedy Shows, Workshops & Broadway Classroom- NYC DOE VENDOR

    Bring your students to our Times Square NYC theater for a day of laughter and valuable life skills training. Our shows present hilarious interactive musical comedy skits and songs improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Our workshops deliver more laughs, and simply playing these improv games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence and more. Add the pizza party for a complete experience – local shop sends the New York pizza pies. EMAIL us asap to book your next trip! NYC DOE VENDOR

    SHOWS

    The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH delivers hilarious interactive musical comedy skits and sings improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide since 2002.

    • Group Rates, Saturdays/ Sundays 3pm $15pp (minimum 10, $150). No additional purchase required for non profit groups. (usually $30 plus 1 drink minimum)
    • Day Time Field Trips (Monday thru Friday before 5pm) $600 up to 40 students, $15/additional student, $1000 up to 100 students. $10/additional student (ask about Title 1 discounts for larger groups). Once minimums are met we offer limited complimentary seating for teachers/chaperons.
    • Pizza Party, 2 large slices and bottled water (soda and juice options available upon request). Add $15pp
    • Mini Workshop- 45-minute session of games that teach students about working together, listening and focus, and story telling. Add $10/student

    Broadway Classroom – Improv Workshop

    Improv is a powerful tool. Improv IS Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Simply playing these game develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence and more. We use to teach corporate team building, leadership, sales and customer service.

    The complete Broadway Classroom is a two hour masterclass, leading students through a series of warm-ups, technique builders and performance games that could be used to build a show at your school.

    Almost weekly we have teen groups from around the world working with our top notch professional teaching artists. We also work with teachers. Improv is powerful professional development programming.

    Our Governing Principles

    • HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense! – Walt Frasier’s #1 Rule
    • YES AND… #1 Rule in Improv
    • LISTENING is the #1 Skill in Comedy

    We create a safe fun space to play. Story and play are the best ways to learn. We use these same programs to train corporate team building, leadership, sales and service skills.

    Live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide since 2002!

    Check put our public shows off-Broadway. For smaller groups we can often add a public show.

    Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)