comedy musical – The Comedy Bureau

May 8, 2019

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Lez Miz and Friends is so damn ambitious as a meta musical that viciously deconstructs the beloved, eternally running musical Les Miserables as well as work in puppets versus humans paradigm into the whole thing. It’s a tall order, but writers Nathan Makaryk and Geneviève Flati and the marvelous cast pull it off with precise abandon.

It’s such a rollicking dashing of convention that we’d wager you’d enjoy even if puppets, musicals, and Les Miserables weren’t really your thing.

Les Miz and Friends has running at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood for the last several weeks and will be finishing their run this weekend (Fri. 8PM/Sat. 3PM & 8PM). Don’t miss your chance to catch before it leaves. Go get your tickets (they’re $32 a piece) here right now.

March 27, 2018

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Baby Wants Candy’s Hamilton-style improvised musical is back yet again and something you shouldn’t miss, kind of like the actual Hamilton musical.

The latest edition is this Sunday, April 1st at 9PM at UCB Sunset and tickets are $7. Go get them real quick here (they will sell out).

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

March 18, 2018

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Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino are so good at improvising musicals that we honestly bet that someone who actually despises musicals might actually enjoy the podcast, Off Book: the Improvised Musical. From start to finish, with musical accompaniment by Scott Passarella, McKenna and Reino dazzle with making up a legit musical out of thin air and having it be funny from so many different angles at the same time.

Their latest live show will be at the end of April, specifically Sun. April 29th at 7PM at Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics. Tickets are $10 and they will sell out. Get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

October 24, 2017

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Jesse Elias is a great stand-up comedian that you might have seen on Kimmel a couple of years ago. He also has a hidden talent for singing and has been known to break out into excerpts from musicals during shows.

Well, that hidden talent will get a light shined on it this Thursday as Jesse will be performing a “musical”.

This will also be one of the last performances to be held at Trepany House at The Steve Allen Theater by the way in case you needed another reason to go.

Tickets are $12 and you can (and really should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

The Martin Shkreli-Wu Tang Clan-Bill Murray Saga Is Getting Its Own Comedic Musical

July 11, 2016

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(via The Creators Project)

Based on a mostly true story.

One of the more insane stories in recent memory is how the Wu Tang Clan put up a single copy of their new album for auction and it was bought, at great expense, by Martin Shrkeli, one of the most hated people on the Internet. A clause of this sale, which turned out to be a hoax, includes provisions for a single attempt of the Wu Tang Clan and Bill Murray to steal the album back.

As that story is just too captivating to be left untrue, musical team Lauren Gundrum and Joel Esher have decided to bring this whole story to life in ‘a musical’ with all of its true and untrue parts. Apparently, Shkreli has even offered to play himself.

One of the funniest parts of this whole endeavor is that Gundrum and Esher’ indiegogo campaign to raise funds for this project includes a $2 million reward that allows the musical to be shut down for good a la Shkreli’s $2 million buy of the Wu Tang Clan’s singular album.