{"id":70982,"date":"2025-12-04T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:23:06","slug":"straz-to-present-off-book-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70982\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to present \u2018Off Book\u2019 | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 \u201cOff Book: The Improvised Musical\u201d will be presented on Friday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., in Jaeb Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $41.40. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Planning is so overrated, or at least you might think so after seeing \u201cOff Book: The Improvised Musical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino will take the stage armed with their wits and little else and will create an entirely improvised musical right before your very eyes and ears. The duo regularly works with big name comedy folk including Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg and Amy Poehler.<\/p>\n<p>Reino and McKenna have written songs and musical sketches for \u201cRick and Morty,\u201d \u201cBumper in Berlin,\u201d \u201cBaking It,\u201d \u201cParty Over Here,\u201d FunnyOrDie, and Nickelodeon. They created and starred in \u201cSerious Music,\u201d a digital series for ABC, and their weekly improvised musical podcast \u201cOff Book\u201d has been praised by various online publications including Indie Wire, USA Today, Parade, AV Club and Splitsider.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows what will happen exactly, but it is almost guaranteed to be memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 \u201cOff Book: The Improvised Musical\u201d will be presented on Friday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., in Jaeb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[276,21286,40884,5168,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-70982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-improv","tag-off-book","tag-straz-center","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}