Musical Improv Shop Talk Podcast

The Musical Improv Shop Talk podcast is a place to come to nerd out about making up songs on the spot!

Skills and Challenges 03/31/2020

Skills and Challenges In this episode if of the Musical Improv Shop Talk podcast, Neil offers challenges to Adam, Kristen, Claire & Gail. /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/13747280

Walking Through 03/17/2020

Walking Through On this episode, Musical Director John Sturk (ComedySportz) spends a lot of time with the crew (Gail, Adam, Claire, Kristen and Neil) as we take care to train our storytelling impulses. Here's Walking Through. /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/13567967

Heighten Brighten Enlighten 03/03/2020

Heighten Brighten Enlighten This week the Gang play with Sarah Murphy (ComedySportz Chicago, Riff) to play with expanding the universe of an improvised musical! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/13371665

Who's Who Part 2 02/19/2020

Who's Who Part 2 The Glitter Island Gang meet up with Keenan Camp (Riff) to explore more characters we might meet along the way! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/13209590

Who's Who Part 1 02/19/2020

Who's Who Part 1 Kristen, Adam and Claire chat with Gail and Neil about the kinds of characters that show up in narratives, and how to play protagonists. /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/13209539

Open It Up 12/17/2019

Open It Up The Glitter Island Gang hang out with friend Brian Sebby to explore openings for musical improv shows! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/12427337

The Scene 12/03/2019

The Scene Neil Figuracion returns with Gail Gallagher on the keys, Adam Mizner at the helm, with new regular castmates Kristen Britt & Claire Parlette. We hang with Wesley Whitaker to talk about scenes in musical improv. What makes them fun? What keeps you coming back? /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/12255848

Shockwave from Freestyle Love Supreme 11/19/2019

Shockwave from Freestyle Love Supreme Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan calls in on his time off from the Broadway run of Freestyle Love Supreme! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/12059051

De/Mystifying Rap 07/09/2018

De/Mystifying Rap Gail Gallagher, Neil Figuracion & Adam Mizner meet up with Dylan Carey (Groovebox) and Zheryk Badugu (the Smokeout) for a spirited conversation about RAP! Ranging from the very basics to finding more exclusive grooves and playing beyond stereotypes, listen in and discover some cool exercises! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6789632

Bonus Bonuses - Full Circle! 06/06/2018

Bonus Bonuses - Full Circle! Here's a second collection of bonus clips! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6531820

Bonus Round 05/02/2018

Bonus Round Here is a compilation of our Patreon clips from episodes 3-5. /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6492296

Episode 8 - Point of View 04/04/2018

Episode 8 - Point of View Season Finale! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6413877

Episode 7 - Steph-isode 03/21/2018

Episode 7 - Steph-isode For this episode, Neil Figuracion, Gail Gallagher and Adam Mizner jump down the rabbit hole with Dr Steph McCullough. We dig into a discussion of musical direction and build some challenges on the spot! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6354374

Episode 6 - Exploring Melody 03/07/2018

Episode 6 - Exploring Melody Gail Gallagher and Neil Figuracion share the table and a lot of laughs with Adam Mizner, Wes Hughes, Ashley Geron, Sam Cain and Nicole Frydman. The topic today is MELODY! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6302038

Episode 5 - What's Important 02/21/2018

Episode 5 - What's Important Gail Gallagher and Neil Figuracion meet up with Chris Terry, Jed Levine, Sophie Scanlon and Adam Mizner for a fun session on choruses, listening and getting on board together! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6265095

Episode 4 - Rhyme 2 02/01/2018

Episode 4 - Rhyme 2 /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6213992

Episode 3 - Rhyme 1 01/17/2018

Episode 3 - Rhyme 1 Neil Figuracion and Gail Gallagher sit at the table with Nicole Frydman, Nelson Velasquez and Adam Mizner to dip their toes into the pool called RHYME! Will their brains melt before the hour is up? /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6149820

Episode 2 - Stuff and Things 01/03/2018

Episode 2 - Stuff and Things Today Neil & Gail welcome Anthony Occhipinti, Brookes May, Lauren Kincaid-Filbey and Adam Mizner. The topic of the day is Ideation. Listen to us play with Stuff & Things! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6109629

Pilot - Riding the Wave 12/06/2017

Pilot - Riding the Wave Here's the pilot episode of the Musical Improv Shop Talk podcast! /episode/index/show/musicalimprovshoptalk/id/6003987

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