This four-week course takes your music improv skills to the next level, and sets you up for CSz 504/544, Musical Improv Performance. In 404, we primarily work on the Musical Comedy, Lounge Lizard and Sing It! forms.

Why are we singing?

Why should the audience care?

How do we support our teammates?

How do we make this experience memorable for all stakeholders?

Please note: This class runs for four weeks, but skips the class that would have been on Thanksgiving. It ends 12/3.

Patrick Short (304, 404 & 504), Education Director, has been making music since 1967, and teaching improv since 1984. He's a very experienced improv accompanist with lots of experience helping people overcome improv fears. Stage musical experience includes music direction for scripted musicals, including performances at the Kennedy Center, as well as Screaming Mee-Mees, who appeared at the Chicago Improv Festival, in New Orleans and Seattle. He has 8 albums to his credit this century (including The Traffic Safety Album and tell.short.gray's NorthEast Pacific) and writes all the music for Thinking People's Theatre shows. Watch for AlleyLoops, a music improv duo featuring Emily Larkin, Vision🖤Euro.

Betse Green has been performing with CSz since 2002, founded the Screaming Mee-Mees and led them through a successful few years (see above), has taught in many countries and now performs with Fourté, The Full-Length Musical, BABE and many other ensembles.

Pre-requisite: Improv Music Basics (CSz 304) or permission of Education Director/Instructor.

Improv Music Intermediate - Heightening/Games (CSz 404)