I started the New Year by attending a five day musical theatre improv workshop taught by the Showstoppers. I find improv hard when it doesn't involve singing and dancing, but it certainly is an amazing challenge adding it into the mix. We started the week by creating simple verse chorus songs and the course ended by creating a 30 minute improvised musical, with five other students, that had opening and closing songs, and scenes in the middle to connect everything. The music

I attended a musical improv workshop this evening. The class focused on melody, basic harmony, and singing in an operatic style. It was fun trying to make up songs in an operatic style and quite difficult to remember that in arias the lyrics are simple but are often decorated with various vocal flourishes. Recitative does get to have many more words, but it's not very melodic. There was no focus on comedy but there was a lot of laughter during the evening. We had songs su