{"id":1046072,"date":"2026-09-06T02:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046072\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:20:18","slug":"1812-productions-takes-comedy-and-improv-to-a-new-level-with-this-should-never-be-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046072\/","title":{"rendered":"1812 Productions takes comedy and improv to a new level with \u2018This Should Never Be A Musical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A comedy theatre company in Philadelphia is putting on an improvised musical reality show. \u2026 Think \u201cShark Tank,\u201d but for musicals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a host who comes out, and she introduces our contestants, and they reach into the fishbowl and pull out a title. And then they have to pitch what that title is immediately, and then sing a song from that show, and the final musical that wins, we do a 30-minute version of that musical,\u201d explained Director Jennifer Childs.<\/p>\n<p>Childs said the actors and designers have to create everything on the spot, from the songs to the lighting and costumes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will never be the same twice, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Childs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Should Never Be A Musical\u201d kicks off 1812\u2019s 30th anniversary season. It runs through Sept. 27 at the Arden Theatre Company\u2019s Arcadia Stage.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1812productions.org\/this-should-never-be-a-musical\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A comedy theatre company in Philadelphia is putting on an improvised musical reality show.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1046073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,214638,87349,44449,10188,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1046072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-arden-theatre","tag-live-theatre","tag-musical","tag-old-city","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117221708652068686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}