I wish I’d come up with Baby Wants Candy as a band name for my yodeling metal band, but a hilarious musical improv troupe got it instead! Baby Wants Candy is a traveling improv troupe that comes up with a completely formed musical on the spot, all themed around the first suggestion they hear shouted from the audience.
When my fabulous friend Jaki took me last Saturday, the theme was CSI: The North Pole.
The two standout performers were Eliza Skinner and this giant blonde guy with crazy psycho eyebrows and I’d love to tell you his name but I can’t find his pic on the website.
Just like any improv, when it’s good, it’s really really good; and when it’s bad, you Tweet your friends to tell them how bad it is.
There are only two more shows in New York (Dec 5 and 12th), and they will be holiday themed – previous audience-suggested titles have included “40 Year Old Virgin Mary”, “It’s Not Christmas Without a Beating” and “I’m the Only Gentile at Hanukkah.”
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