Improv 4 Teens Times Square NYC

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  • Improv 4 Teens – Murder Mystery, Minute to Win It, Trivia & More

    Improv 4 Teens – Murder Mystery, Minute to Win It, Trivia & More

    In addition our improv comedy shows and workshops, we offer a number of interactive immersive options for schools, camps, libraries, community centers and family events. We can also host at our Times Square NYC theater. This article focuses on our mystery programs, but we also have trivia, minute to win it, and other programs. EMAIL for more information.

    WHODUNNIT?

    True Crime Dramas are more popular than ever, and so are mystery events, murder or otherwise. We have been regularly working with library teen nights, summer camps, schools and family gatherings. If murder is not the perfect fit, how about WHO STOLE THE SPIRIT CUP, WHO STOLE OUR MASCOT, THE CASE OF THE MISSING (insert anything relevant to your school/community). Not li mm ited to crime family drama, we also can accommodate any style, period of history, etc – Billionair Mystery Mansion, Disco Fever, 1980s, 1950s, 1920s, Greco Roman Antiquity, and more. We have dozens of scenarios from previous shows or can write an original show, or even better, let YOUR teens write the show, completely improvised on the spot.

    • The Full Show: we send our team of four improv comedy players to become characters. A murder happens right in front of your eyes, as the victim falls mid speech. Everyone is a witness and suspect and deputized to help solve the crime in teams of 3-10.
    • CLUE PARTIES Basically one of our detectives serves as EMCEE and lead investigator. In these parties some or all of the participants are suspects. They receive some simple information about their character and relationship to a victim. Everyone has opportunity, means and motive. But the clues lead to one perpetrator. Everyone is deputized to solve the crime.
    • MADCAPPED MYSTERIES: Our unique show, is also the most original show ever created, because it is completely created by your group at the time of the show.

    Imagine a live version of Mad Libs, or our popular Improv Game Columns (aka Call ’em’s, Human Mad Libs).

    Our lead player, the detective, arrives moments after the discover of a crime/victim. The first few minutes are just like Mad Libs. Our detective tells the story of the crime by promoting your guests to fill in a few blanks. “We just found (points to audience member), you know their name is (points), right, yes, Frank. (From this point on its all improvised) Frank is known in town for (points to audience member), you know his job or (points), right, yes, Frank is the operator of an ice cream truck that everyone loves and cherishes, except at least one of you apparently.”

    After the basic crime is established, we meet the towns people. For smaller groups (under 20ish) everyone becomes a character, from friends and family of the victim, strangers that witnessed the some aspect of the crime, and pillars of our community – mayor, chief of police, deputy, Coroner, district attorney, school board, park ranger, specialist from the university, etc.

    Now we establish some suspects. Our Detective pics 3-5 characters to join the line up of usual suspects. After a brief interrogation, basically summing up each characters part in the story and relationships, motives and means to commit the crime, the rest of the crowd decides into teams to interrogate suspects, spending 3-5 minutes with each (suspects rotate from team to team).

    Finally, teams deliberate and solve the crime, who did it, how they did and why. Also teams pick a best actor award. Once the detective collects all the answers, we have some fun reading the solutions to the crowd. Ultimately one team is picked as the winning solution. The criminal mastermind(s) is identified. We award prizes to the winning team(s). Lastly we award a best actor prize and hear their oscar/Tony award winning speech.

  • Improv 4 Teens Touring Company – Schools, Libraries, Community / Family events

    Improv 4 Teens Touring Company – Schools, Libraries, Community / Family events

    Bring laughter to your communities!

    2003, the cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy has been touring k12 schools, camps, community centers and family events DC to BOSTON and beyond. We also offer workshops, residencies and professional development programming. EMAIL for more information on dates and rates. NYC DOE VENDORS

    Interactive Comedy Shows

    Our shows are all ages friendly and popular at k12 schools, summer camps, community centers (Libraries, theaters, JCC, YMCA, parks and recreation, etc) and family events (birthdays, graduations, scouts, etc). Great for any stage, or we can turn any classroom, gym, meeting room, living room or back yard space into a Comedy club.

    Workshops

    Improv is SEL, Social Emotional Learning. Simply playing improv comedy games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence, self awareness and more.

    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

    Residencies & After School Programming

    There are two types of residencies that we offer. One, where our teachers offer shows and one off workshops for the entire population of your school, or even your district. We extend our full day and week rates to neighboring schools.

    Two, our teachers work with a group of students for 16+ hours as they learn numerous games, culminating in a final showcase. This can be compressed into a single week, as in a typical summer camp scenario, our stretched out over a full quarter or semester.

    In general our rates per hour/show/class are cut as much as in half when booking a series of sessions.

    Professional Development

    Professional Development programming for teachers and staff brings the best of our k12 outreach programs and corporate training center into one powerful program.

    First and foremost, Improv delivers but needed laughter. Teaching is not easy and you deserve to have some fun.

    Improv is a powerful tool in the classroom. Studies show laughter in the classroom increases test scores. Humor develops a better brain, as we compare two otherwise dissimilar topics/items. Laughter is cardiovascular, pumping oxygen to the brain, waking up our students. Laughter reduces stress and builds community bonds. We teach you games you can use before a big test or lecture to bring listening and focus to a premium. Set yourself and your students up for success!

    We use improv to teach team building, leadership, sales and service skills. We argue that on any given day, teachers have to do all four, navigating classroom management, interacting with colleagues and department meetings, students, teachers, and administration. Where do sales come in? Every time a student says, “Why should I care?”, “Why do I need to learn math?”, “Why do I need to be on time?”, we have all purpose answers. But improv teaches us to engage an individual, and their specific needs. The #1 Skill in Comedy is LISTENING.

    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)