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Baby Wants Candy – Presented by Asheville Improv Festival
May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$30
Asheville Improv Festival | Night 4 | Saturday 7:30 PM
Baby Wants Candy is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy ensembles in the world. The group proves time and again that the best stuff is spontaneous. The group has performed over 9,000 completely improvised musicals around the world to thousands of fans from Chicago to New York to Singapore to Scotland. Entirely based on audience suggestion and accompanied by a full band, the show is a roller-coaster ride of spontaneously choreographed dance numbers, rhyming verses and witty, jaw-dropping comedy. BWC has performing casts in Chicago (Apollo Theater), Los Angeles (UCB) and New York (UCB) and tours internationally.
Baby Wants Candy has helped launch the careers of some of the top comedic talent in the US. BWC cast & alumni include Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Peter Gwinn (Colbert Report), Thomas Middleditch (HBO’s Silicon Valley), Lauren Conlan Adams (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Jessica McKenna (Party Over Here), Nicole Parker (Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway) and many more.
From a simple audience-supplied phrase, Baby Wants Candy, accompanied by a full band, creates that musical on the spot! Each performance is its own opening and closing night, and by design every show is completely unique and a once in a lifetime premiere. Some favorite titles include, Jesus Christ Superstore, Phantom of the Oprah and Dogs (the obvious sequel to Cats). Start thinking of your title now!
Opening will be local improv legends, Reasonably Priced Babies — featuring Kim Richardson, Josh Batenhorst, Tom Chalmers, Mondy Carter, Karen Stobbe, Aaron Price — bringing their signature improv magic!
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