Baby Wants Candy
Los Angeles, California, United States
Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
Baby Wants Candy is brilliant! 5 STARS! - Broadway Baby
"Truly Amazing! Critics' Pick!" - NY Times
"Steals the whole damn festival, they are that good."
-Bill Davis - Charleston City Paper
"They are an entertainment phenom and I am in awe of their talent"
-Kate Copstick - The Scotsman
"One of (Chicago)'s most consistently funny and crowd-pleasing improv shows." "Inspired Scenes...hilarious yet heart-felt numbers."
"Every improv team sings when inspiration strikes, but Baby Wants Candy makes the option into an obligation, turning every performance into a tuneful, spontaneously choreographed revue." - Darel Jevens
- Chicago Sun Times
"Don't like musical improv? Neither did we until we saw this truly outstanding Chicago troupe."
Award: BEST VISITING COMEDY ACT
--TimeOut NY staff
- TimeOut NY
Critics' Choice "A magic informs Baby Wants Candy." " The troupe has become the very model of smart, physical, quick-thinking, and just plain silly long-form improvisers" "Baby's nine bright, energetic, seasoned performers don't sing out of desperation but becasue that's what they do--create fully improvised one-act musicals. Singing is their raison d'etre, and they do it well."..."The cast supports one another fully in everything, validating James Joye's remark that genius makes no mistakes--errors are the portals of discovery." - Jack Helbig
- Chicago Reader
Baby Wants Candy make the Improvised Musical work. BWC spin a full hour-long rock opera from one audience suggestion... The show is always exciting-kind of like being strapped into a careening car that might flip over at any given moment.
-Onion AV Club - The Onion
Discography
Baby Wants Candy has created over 2000 improvised musicals. They are currently being considered for a new Guinness Book Of World Records title for "Most Musicals Created by a Single Company".
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Bio
WHAT IS A BABY WANTS CANDY SHOW?
The audience shouts out a title of a musical that has never been performed before. Accompanied by a piano player or full band, Baby Wants Candy takes that title and creates a 60 minute musical on the spot.
Baby Wants Candy, the worlds premier musical improvisation theater group, is in its remarkable 10th year of shows in Chicago. BWC has also heralded the opening of BWC LA and BWC New York City. Baby Wants Candy has won praise around the world including Ensemble of the Year at the acclaimed Chicago Improv Festival.
Baby Wants Candy has performed completely improvised musicals to sold-out crowds from Singapore to Edinburgh. BWC consistently provides audiences with some of the funniest and smartest improvisation around.
Jack Helbig, of the Chicago Reader, praises The Improvised Rock Opera by Baby Wants Candy, shows that the group has become the very model of smart, physical, quick-thinking, and just plain silly long-form improvisation. Edinburghs The Scotsman raves Chicagos Baby Wants Candy could convert the most cynical enemy of musicals with their improvised version, which combines creative wit with awesome performances. They are an entertainment phenomenon and I am in awe of their talent. You cannot fail to have your world rocked by these people. I have one word for it: Go! and TimeOutNY awarded BWC Best Visiting Comedy Show asking readers Dont like musical improv? Neither did we until we saw this truly outstanding Chicago troupe.
BWC has featured performers Stephnie Weir and Nicole Parker (MADtv), Rachel Dratch and Seth Meyers (SNL), Jack McBrayer (Talladega Night: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and NBCs 30 Rock), Al Samuels, Kevin Fleming, Niki Lindgren (NBCs Sports Action Team) Mark Pender (Late Night with Conan OBrien) and Garry W. Tallent (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) to name a few. BWC has become a talent pool of some of the nations strongest comedic and musical talent.
Baby Wants Candy has toured internationally and toured hundreds of colleges, universities and performing art centers over the USA. BWC are often booked by the same schools over and over because the show is never the same twice and is consistently a fantastic show!
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