{"id":279860,"date":"2026-09-05T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279860\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:24:07","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.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279860\/","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>\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\">click here<\/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":2,"featured_media":279861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22591,117099,17641,13272,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-279860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arden-theatre","tag-live-theatre","tag-musical","tag-old-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}