Interactive & Virtual Workshops
Laugh and learn with Baby Wants Candy, the world’s original and most celebrated musical improv comedy group!
Our cast has delivered custom programs for thousands of students at all age ranges and experience levels, at high schools, colleges and universities, all now available over Zoom. Workshops are designed to teach the skills to improvise your own comedic musical, starting with the comedy basics of song form, narrative structure, performance elements, together with the improv techniques required to put on a made-up musical.
No experience or musical background is required as all programs are levelled to ensure an energizing experience with a fast paced, fun and supportive environment that builds confidence in listening and performance skills. Course options include 2-3 hour workshops to ‘all weekend intensives’ as well as a longer artist-in-residency program. All programs include an original private performance from our cast!
Find out why ‘famous school person’ called our workshop ‘the best thing since bread that is sliced’. Schedule time with our producer on our Contact page discuss the completely original workshop we can create just for you.
Beginning Musical Improv: Jump into musical improv comedy with a fun, fast-paced workshop in a challenging yet supportive environment. Students learn the fundamentals of longform improv scenework and basics skills for improvising clever songs: a strong idea, an identifiable structure, and lyrical tricks like rhyming and metaphor. Students will put then these skills to use by improvising full comedic scenes and songs along with a partner.
Freestyle Improvised Rap/Hip-Hop: Freestyle Rap in Improv: what y'all know about improv rap? Probably nothing! This workshop will teach you how to pull characters and ideas from improv scenes and let them loose with the glory of hip-hop. Learn to let rap fuel your scenes and scenes fuel your rap. Experience? Not necessary. Mad swagger? Definitely required.
Creating Musical Comedies: Members of BWC created and led a semester long course as part of Princeton University’s Atelier Program. We developed a unique and high quality instruction in creating scripted musical songs and musicals, and we have distilled highlights of the course down to its essence in a 2-3 hour workshop.
Advanced Musical Improv: The Game of the Song: Discover the simple joy and comedic power of game-driven songs. Using two fundamental structures (verse/chorus and lastline tagline), participants will explore the ridiculous fun that comes through effortlessly heightening the lyrical, emotional, physical, situational and musical patterns that present themselves in the moments leading up to a song. We’ll play with the emotional and reactive scenic building blocks that lead to the best improvised songs. Experience how the success of the song is virtually guaranteed before the first note is even sung.
