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Charm Scene: Improvised MusicalsFraudway Festival, Marquee, and more with Allen Lucas! (Chat Scene #5)We're just a week away from the first annual Fraudway Musical Improv Festival at Chicago's iO Theatre! In this all new episode of Chat Scene, festival creator and organizer Allen Lucas joins us to talk about the festival and his countless new musical improv endeavors at iO (including the amazing new show "Marquee").
We'll see you all at the Fraudway Musical Improv Festival, March 6-7. Tickets are on sale now at ioimprov.com.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Allen Lucas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2026-02-2638 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#76: "Ice Cream, You Scream" with Allen Lucas!The game is afoot! FIVE TIME charming guest Allen Lucas is back once again, this time with a mystery! We take Allen's real life love of ice cream and friendship and turn it into a devious, delicious dessert of musical improv, complete with vats of vanilla, nosey neighbors, suspicious stains, and more. Get the latest scoop on this week's Charm Scene!
Want to hear even more of Allen? Don't miss the first annual FRAUDWAY Musical Improv Festival at Chicago's iO Theatre, March 6-7. Tickets are on sale now at ioimprov.com.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin...
2026-02-241h 06Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#75: "Earth, Wind & Tarot" with Daryn Robinson!The cards have spoken! Daryn Robinson ("My Best Friend is Black," "Shamilton," "She The People") is BACK. Through the power of live Tarot readings, and inspired by Daryn's story about her real-life uncle (a member of the legendary band "Earth, Wind & Fire") we set off through the kingdoms of Earth, Wind, and Fire on a quest to rediscover ourselves - featuring bountiful bindles, swollen skunks, vicious volcanoes, and more. The cycle continues on this week's Charm Scene!
Daryn Robinson (she/her) is a Chicago-based writer/performer originally from Washington, D.C. She is a performer at @TheSecondCity...
2026-02-1757 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#74: "Leveling Up" with Jono Mammel!Welcome weary travelers! Charming dungeon master Jono Mammel is back for a fantastical improvised adventure, inspired by Jono's real work in "Oops! All Bards." Join us as we enter a magical, musical world of swamps & sparrows, rocks & rolls, taverns & telekinesis, and more. Roll for initiative!
Jono Mammel (they/them) is an actor, musical improviser, and tabletop game master originally from Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their Chicago credits include "Anthony Rapp: Home for the Holidays," "Benny Bingo and the Evangelikids," "Fan Fiction," "Puffs," "Shark Tank: the Musical," "Oops! All Bards: An Improvised D&D Musical," "Phony Award Winning Musical,"...
2026-02-101h 06Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#73: Charm Scene LIVE - "Grin and Carrot" at The Last Word Comedy Festival 2026!We're LIVE again from Williamsburg, VA at the 2026 Last Word Comedy Festival! This year, we looked to fiber-rich comedy major Li for inspiration for an all-new fully improvised musical. Copious carrots, vicarious villains, tasty transformations, and more on this week's Charm Scene! What's up, Doc?
Special thanks to the city of Williamsburg for sponsoring the event, and to everyone at The Last Word Comedy Festival. Learn more at lastwordfestival.com
Recorded January 29, 2026 at PBK Hall at The College of William and Mary
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, with introduction by Adam Stackhouse
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2026-02-0356 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#72: "Dan The Man" with Sarah Murphy!Buckle up, Charmers. We've got Richmond's own Sarah Murphy (Bite Sized Podcast, RIFF, Swiped) for a very special improvised musical, inspired by her real life DAD. It's an Uber ride you'll never forget, with curious kids, hazardous heists, troubled townsfolk, and more! Tippity tap that gas pedal for an all-new Charm Scene!
Sarah (she/her) is a wife-guy and improviser from Chicago, IL. She cohosts @bitesizedpod_ and performs with @riffimprov and @swipedimprov around Chicago. In her free time, she volunteers at @pawschicago and fosters kittens. So if you need cat advice, Twilight fun facts, or a loud...
2026-01-271h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#71: "All's Fair at The World's Fair" with Christian Pitsch!Step right up! Step right up! See the wonders of improvised musicales as we welcome charming guest and brilliant scientist Christian Pitsch. Motherless mummies, whirling wheels, strange sciences, and more! See something you've never seen before in this all new Charm Scene.
Christian Pitsch is a capital-C comedian. You can catch him: hosting "The Open Stage," performing sketch with "Anti Virgin Club," improvising on "TMI," or singing his heart out in his original musical "Pigskin," Saturdays January 31-March 28 at The Annoyance!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Christian Pitsch
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
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2026-01-201h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#70: "The Burn Team" with Josiah Robinson!Is it hotter in here, or is it just us? It's another INCENDIARY improvised musical as we welcome former member of "The Burn Team" and charming guest Josiah Robinson! Join us as we go undercover, into a world of smoldering secrets, combustible canyons, and torched Texans. Hope you don't get burned on this week's Charm Scene!
Josiah Robinson is a improviser, actor, and podcaster in Chicago. You can find his music improv team Anarchy, the Improvised Rock Opera @anarchymusicimprov on Instagram. And check out his podcast How Star Wars Is It? (@howstarwarsisit) available wherever you get your...
2026-01-131h 02Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#69: "Infinite Hot Topic" with Barb Jackson and Hugh Walker!Let's go to the mall! It's the first episode of 2026, and we've got a DUO. Charming guests Barb Jackson and Hugh Walker (Director and Writer/Composer of "Evangelikids!") join us for an all-new improvised musical, set in the long lost world of US shopping malls. A captive Claire's, a submerged Spencer Gifts, troubling taekwondo, and more. Yay capitalism!
Barb Jackson is a writer, performer, and director originally from Northern California. She has called Chicago home for 4 years, but you can still hear her say something is 'Hella cool dude' when she's excited. Catch her perform in "...
2026-01-061h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#68: Challenge Episode! New Years Eve with Just Us (and special guest Maya Tanaka)!What better way to celebrate the new year than a CHALLENGE EPISODE? We've got the gang together to ring in 2026 with resolute rhymes, timely time signatures, a charming champaign toast, and so much more - including a special surprise appearance from friend of the pod, Maya Tanaka! Happy New Year from all of us at Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Maya Tanaka
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-12-301h 15Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#67: "Santa: Origins" with Santa Claus!You better watch out. You better not cry. Because this improviser is a heck of a guy. It's our CHRISTMAS EPISODE with charming guest and huge get - Santa Claus! In this week's fully improvised musical, we revisit the true (and dark?) origins of Kris Kringle, complete with radiated reindeer, 70s swag, and a babbling Baby New Year. Happy Holidays!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Santa Claus
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-12-231h 05Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#66: "Abominable Sasquatch" with Daniel Matthews!BRRRRRR. This week we welcome the abominable Daniel Matthews, as he shares his experience puppeteering "Nigel the Sasquatch" for a series of Chuck E' Cheese music videos. This wintery improvised musical comes complete with miserable misfits, supportive straights, and hungry hungry hippos. Find where you belong on this week's Charm Scene!
Daniel (He/Him) grew up in the suburbs of Texas between Fort Worth and Dallas. He started improv back in his junior year of high school and has been performing ever since. He completed the training program at the Dallas Comedy House, co-wrote a couple horror...
2025-12-161h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#65: "The Secret-er Garden" with Jessica Joy!To you he's just a sickly kid, but one day he just might be governor. Pod favorite Jessica Joy is back for another fully improvised musical, this time inspiring us with her real life summer stock experience in "The Secret Garden." Sour servants, talking termites, bags of bullets, and more in this week's Charm Scene! Make a wish!
Jessica Joy is an actor and sketch comedian originally from Cleveland, Ohio! She is an alumni of the Second City in Chicago, where she wrote and performed in the Jeff Award-winning revue "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)", and toured...
2025-12-0958 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#64: "Wedding AUNT-aliano" with Carlos Rivera!It might be December, but it's wedding season on Charm Scene! Charming guest Carlos Rivera helps us plan the perfect wedding in this week's fully improvised musical, with brooding brides, massive monologues, and aunt-ish ants! Will anyone find love? Find out this week on Charm Scene!
Carlos, a rare species of "non-fluent in Spanish" Miami native, has done improv for most of his adult life. Since moving to Chicago in 2016 to pursue comedy, he has successfully graduated from the Annoyance, iO, CiC, Second City's Improv AND Musical Improv Conservatories, and has performed in improv & sketch all around...
2025-12-0257 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#63: "Beltsgiving" with Sydney Clinton!What's that shiny object at the thrift store? It's a surprise Charm Scene Thanksgiving with charming guest Sydney Clinton! Sydney tells us a bit about her time as a performer and comedian, and her dad's unique perspective on her career, which we use as inspiration for an all-new fully improvised musical - featuring balladic belts, feuding families, a kicked Kyle, and more. Happy Thanksgiving!
Sydney Clinton is a Chicago-based performer who plays on stages across the city. Catch her regularly in "Voila! The Improvised Musical" (iO Chicago) and "ANARCHY: The Improvised Rock Opera" (Second City). Outside of...
2025-11-251h 02Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals"Rhyming Crash Course" with MC Hammersmith (Chat Scene #4)It's all rhymes and good times in this very special episode of Chat Scene! MC Hammersmith (aka our dear friend Will Naameh) is back again, this time discussing his origins in comedy and hip-hop, and giving us some advanced tips and tricks on rhyming. Join us!
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MC Hammersmith (the alias of Will Naameh), is a multi-award winning hip hop comedian.
He is the world’s leading rapper to ever emerge from the ghetto of middle class west London.
In his live shows, MC Hammersmith performs improvised hip hop comedy. The lyrics and rhym...
2025-11-2044 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#62: "Big Thick Men" with MC Hammersmith!Get PUMPED. This week we're joined by charming guest and UK's thickest boy - MC Hammersmith! It's a fully improvised musical, complete with melodious mayors, brutish boys, critical crosswords and more! Get your reps in on this all new Charm Scene! LADS LADS LADS.
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MC Hammersmith (the alias of Will Naameh), is a multi-award winning hip hop comedian.
He is the world’s leading rapper to ever emerge from the ghetto of middle class west London.
In his live shows, MC Hammersmith performs improvised hip hop comedy. The lyrics and rhymes of h...
2025-11-1853 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#61: "Jar Wars" with Christian Torres!Jar Wars. Jar Jar Binks Star Wars. It's about Jar Jar. These are his wars.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Christian Torres
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-11-111h 04Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals"We Have Reached the End of Our Show" with Ali Gordon! (Chat Scene #3)Breaking news! Charming guest Ali Gordon (last heard in episode #24) wrote a BOOK? Join us in this very special episode of Chat Scene as we discuss her debut novel, her New York improv roots, the LA comedy scene, and more. Get your copy today at whatdoesaligordondo.com
Ali Gordon is a comedian, author, and educator from New York City, now living in sunny Los Angeles. Ali has performed for years with Team Starkid, most recently in "VHS Christmas Carols" in Chicago at the Apollo Theater. Ali also performs musical improv everywhere she can, including the Edinburgh Fringe...
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Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#60: "The Night Family" with Sean Buckley!What's that sound in the hall? It's the final Charm SCREAM of the year, and we're finally spooky. Charming guest Sean Buckley ("Phony Award," "Teen Girl Book," "Oops All Bards") joins us for another terrifying improvised musical, complete with ghostly gaming, ridiculous radio, manipulative motherhood, and more. Meet the OTHER family in your house, this week on Charm Scream!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sean Buckley
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-10-281h 01Charm Scene: Improvised MusicalsChat Scene - Jackbox Party Pack 11 with Austin Packard!Austin's in a game! In this bonus episode, we sit down with our own Austin Packard, voice of The Bard in the Jackbox Party Pack 11's "Legends of Trivia," (out NOW!) to talk all things Jackbox. Welcome, adventurous trivia team, to the land of Chat Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sam Scheidler
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2025-10-2333 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#59: "The THE House" with Allie Gospel!They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're all together ooky, and legally distinct. Our month of Charm SCREAM continues, this week with the incredible Allie Gospel ("Anarchy," "Faking The Band," "Lil' Sluggers")! It's another terrifying improvised musical, complete with a devlish dare, a wicked wing, and gruesome government connections! Welcome to the family!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Allie Gospel
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-10-211h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#58: "ApotheSCARY" with Kerri Morrison!It's a 'fowl,' witchy good time on this week's Charm SCREAM. We welcome charming guest Kerri Morrison ("Faking The Band," "Blank," "Improvised Sondheim Project") for another horrifying, terrifying, very very spooky improvised musical. Bumbling birds, pesky potions, humongous hands, and more. Come fly with us... if you dare!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Kerri Morrison
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-10-141h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#57: "Charm SCREAM" Challenge Episode with Just Us!There's nothing SPOOKIER than surprise improvised songs! It's finally October, and our month of Charm SCREAM-ingly horrifying improvised musicals has just begun. We're starting off with just the four of us for a scary good time of music improv challenges, all themed around our favorite spooky season. Gruesome games, creepy key changes, ghastly gets, and more in this all-new special episode of Charm SCREAM. Happy Halloween!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-10-0758 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#56: "Of Mice & Bi Men" with Simon Tessmer!It's the classic tale of two interns who are also neighbors who are also consensual polyamorous lovers. This week we welcome charming guest Simon Tessmer ("Hitchcocktails," "Clued In," "Jackie Bass") for another fully improvised musical - complete with scientific sun tans, misogynistic mice, troubled tradwives and so much more. Tap into your rage for an all new Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Simon Tessmer
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-09-301h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#55: "Dreams & Beans" with Ryan J. Hurdle!Sharks, have we got a product for you. Charming guest Ryan J. Hurdle ("Gums," "Y2K: A 90s Musical," Voila) takes us to the cutthroat world of investing and also parking. We've got daring dreams, climbing camera men, and a lyrical Lin Manuel Miranda in this fully improvised musical. Your dreams are what they seems on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ryan J. Hurdle
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-09-2358 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#54: "A Happy Medium" with Heather Scholl!How have we not done a western yet?? This week on Charm Scene, we've got the phenomenal Heather Scholl (Phony Award, Voila, ComedySportz, Anarchy) back again for another fully improvised musical! Curious cowboys, towns and tracks, a medium marriage, and more. Hear those western weddin' bells, this week on Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Heather Scholl
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-09-1653 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#53: "Not Beauty & The Not Beast" with Ben Auxier!Charm Scene is BACK and so is charming guest Ben Auxier (Friend Dog Studios, Wheel of Improv, RIFF)! We go deep into yet another fully improvised musical, with personified pits, marching meatballs, minor miners, and a faulty understanding of the US copyright system. No one charms like Gaston!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-09-0959 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#52: "Professor Montana" with Allen Lucas!It's the best of both worlds! Charming guest Allen Lucas RETURNS to Charm Scene with another fully improvised musical - complete with wonky wigs, frantic fans, and a popstar professor. Chill it out, take it slow, and we'll rock out the show. You're watching Disney Channel. I mean Charm Scene.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Allen Lucas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-08-0558 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#51: "2 Zoo 2 Story" with Ross Taylor!We're all family in this week's improvised musical - this time with charming guest Ross Taylor (Missed Call, TMI, The Second City)! Ross takes us back to his time on stage in Edward Albee's "Zoo Story," so naturally we have to do the sequel. Journeying giraffes, faraway families, and New York nonsense abound in "2 Zoo 2 Story." Just as Albee intended.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ross Taylor
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-07-221h 03Charm Scene: Improvised MusicalsBonus Episode - "CHAT Scene" with Chris Ditton!A new voice on the mic?? As we start in on our "Summer Slowdown" - here's a special BONUS episode featuring our incredible drummer Chris Ditton! We talk Chris's start in Chicago's music improv scene, his inspirations and techniques, and more in our first ever "CHAT Scene!"
No musical this week, but we'll be back next Tuesday and every second Tuesday from there on with brand new made-up musicals from Chicago's best music improvisers. Stay charming!
Cast: Chris Ditton, Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sam Scheidler
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2025-07-1514 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#50: "50-Up" with Amber Linde!AHHHHH WE MADE IT TO FIFTY EPISODES!!! Thank you so much for following along :)
We're halfway to a hundred in this week's episode of Charm Scene! We welcome back our original charming guest - Amber Linde (Baby Wants Candy, Phony Award Winning Musical, Anarchy) - for the pod's golden 50th episode. What do scientific studies, dynamic dancing, and a timid Transylvanian have in common? Listen now to find out! Happy 50th!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Amber Linde
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-07-081h 11Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#49: "Jesus Goes to Baseball Camp" with Megan Ramsey!Teen Jesus? Baseball camp? Why not BOTH? We've got charming guest Megan Ramsey (Gums, Duluth, Evangelikids) on a mission to teach you the ways of the lord, and the perfect curveball. Double play disciples, sinless step dads, and the original home run hero himself - Jesus Christ. It's a grand slam in this week's fully improvised Charm Scene. Play ball!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Megan Ramsey
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-07-011h 04Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#48: "AmsterDAMN" with Louie Cordon!We're taking you to the Netherlands in this week's episode of Charm Scene! Boom Chicago performer and charming guest Louie Cordon shares a story from his time in Amsterdam that leads us to a fully improvised musical full of busy beaches, robbers with rizz, and the ultimate park party. Luister nu!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Louie Cordon
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-06-241h 02Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#47: "Bo, a Deer" with Dave Lyzenga!Time to hit the road, deer listeners, as we welcome charming guest Dave Lyzenga for another fully improvised musical! A rambunctious road trip, a burly bartender, and a catastrophic conclusion await you on this week's Charm Scene. Follow your dreams!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Dave Lyzenga
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-06-171h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#46: "Let's Get Liminal" with Jonathan Allsop!We're breaking into the backrooms in this week's fully improvised musical! Charming guest Jonathan Allsop takes us on a liminal journey through flickering fluorescents, ethereal elevators and haunted hallways. Get lost in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jonathan Allsop
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-06-1058 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#45: "Disco REDUX" with Mo Phillips-Spotts!Disco will never die as charming guest Mo Phillips-Spotts RETURNS, following her incredibly successful, lost to time first episode recorded just minutes before. Sashaying salesmen, dangerous dances, and tremendous technical difficulties on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Mo Phillips-Spotts
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-06-0339 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#44: "Revolution or Omnibust" with Jessica Joy!Are you ready for a revolution? Charming guest Jessica Joy is back again - this time for a less miserable (and very french) fully improvised musical! Murderous monarchs, frying frogs, accidental accents, and more! Don't lose your head!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jessica Joy
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-05-2757 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#43: "Well, One of Us Has to Change" with Mike Gospel!Calling all pranksters! Charming guest Mike Gospel returns for a spongebob-heavy, fully improvised office musical! Collective costumes, serious supervisors, and goofy goobers galore. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? We do!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Mike Gospel
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-05-2056 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#42: Charm Scene LIVE - "Jump With Me" at The Annoyance Theatre!It's our first ever CHICAGO LIVE SHOW! Take the jump with us as we take on the Annoyance Theatre with another fully improvised musical - and a surprise? Confused comas, purchased Portugals, grumbling grannies, and more on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
Special thanks to Sam MacNerland, Christian Pitsch, Kathryn Courtney, Rockie Wenrich, John Moore, James Salvatore, Jennifer Estlin, and everyone at our home - The Annoyance.
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2025-05-1352 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#41: "Into The Internet" with Brandon Michael Thomas!Welcome to the world wide web! Brandon Michael Thomas RETURNS for a net-spanning adventure through cyberspace. Digital denizens, bashful "bugs," flirty feet pics and more on this week's fully improvised Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Brandon Michael Thomas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-05-0659 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#40: "First Dance" with Kaitlyn Nibbelin!It's our 40TH EPISODE! We're blowing the roof off this one-room schoolhouse in this week's Charm Scene! Charming guest Kaitlyn Nibbelin joins us for a coming-of-age story like none other. Selfish students, troublesome tree-people, handsome haberdsashers, and more! Who are you taking to the dance?
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Kaitlyn Nibbelin
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-04-2958 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#39: "Time Traveling Bachelor Party" with Bryan Duff!It's TIME for another Charm Scene! This week, charming guest Bryan Duff takes us on a race against the clock in this time jumping fully improvised musical, with scintilating cyberpunks, brotherly bachelors, notable Newtons and more! The clock is ticking!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Bryan Duff
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-04-221h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#420: "High Heaven" with Keenan Camp!It's our 4/20 spectacular, and we're just DYING for you to hear it. Keenan Camp returns, with snacks in tow, for a high flying, afterlife-spanning, fully improvised musical. Bestest buds, dope dances, troublesome trips, and more! Smoke 'em if you've got 'em for this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Keenan Camp
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-04-151h 10Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#37: "Crunkin' Cupcakes" with Daryn Robinson!Donut touch that dial! Daryn Robinson RETURNS in this fully baked improvised musical! And that's muffin to joke about. Foxy fritters, leading long johns, berefect bagels, and more! It's a bearclaw of an episode on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Daryn Robinson
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-04-0855 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#36: "The McQUEEN of Comedy" with Lisa McQueen and Sam Scheidler??It's our APRIL FOOLS switch-em-up spectacular! We tied Sam to a microphone and brought in LEGENDARY Chicago Music Director - Lisa McQueen! Filled with precocious pigeons, adversarial ad-men, infantile improvisers, and more - we're headed back to an extremely accurate 1960s Chicago in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sam Scheidler
Music Director: Lisa McQueen
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-04-011h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#35: "Pirate Ride and Also Restaurant" with Devan Seaman!Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for charming guest Devan Seaman in this week's fully improvised musical! Inspired by her time in pirate dinner theatre, join us as we enter a pirate restaurant inside a pirate ride inside a pirate themed amusment park. Batten down those betas, guzzle that grog, and prepare to be piratized in this episode of Charm Scene! Dead dolphins tell no tales!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Devan Seaman
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-03-251h 03Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#34: "Notker? I Hardly Know Her" with Jono Mammel!Things are HEATING UP! Charming guest Jono Mammel RETURNS, this time taking us all the way back to early human history in this fully improvised musical - complete with ferocious fires, time travelers in training, smoldering sweethearts, and more! Welcome to the stone age!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jono Mammel
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-03-181h 02Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#33: "Doctor Vanya" with Liz McCreight!The doctor is IN. Join charming guest Liz McCreight in our sexiest improvised musical yet. Hot healers, infectious friendships, rambling reporters, and more! Can this doctor heal his patients, and more importantly... himself?
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Liz McCreight
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-03-1158 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#32: "A Dating Game" with Christian Torres!Are you single and looking to mingle? Amiss and looking to kiss? Look no further than this week's fullly improvised musical! Charming guest Christian Torres takes us to a pop-up dating game, complete with bachelorettes, bodies of water, and the Bechdel Test. Find your special someone in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Christian Torres
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-03-0454 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#31: "Jack of the Jungle" with Derek Demko!We're "hanging on by a thread" in this week's fully improvised musical - with charming guest Derek Demko! Jealous Jacks, preoccupied parents, dirty dodos, and more. It's a jungle out there in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Derek Demko
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-02-251h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#30: "Fast & The Furious 1 1/2" with Natalie Younger!It's time to impress your mom as charming guest Natalie Younger takes us back to our collective theatre-kid childhoods in this week's fully improvised musical! Captivating cousins, impractical plays, juicy jugs, and more! It's time for the show!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Natalie Younger
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-02-1855 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#29: "Return of the Tooth Wizard" with Deshawn Mason!Brush up for this week's fully improsived TOOTH-sical as we welcome charming guest Deshawn Mason! Killer cavities, bumbling bicuspids, wisdom-toothed wizards, and more! It's all smiles on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Deshawn Mason
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-02-1159 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#28: Charm Scene LIVE at The Last Word Comedy Festival - Williamsburg, VAOur FIRST LIVE SHOW! We took to the cobbled streets of Williamsburg, Virginia for the second annual Last Word Comedy Festival for our first in-person fully improvised musical - inspired by audience member Kate's real life college story. Break-in baddies, burgeoning board gamers, basketted balls, and more in this week's Charm Scene!
Special thanks to the city of Williamsburg for sponsoring the event, and to everyone at The Last Word Comedy Festival. Learn more at lastwordfestival.com
Recorded January 30, 2025 at PBK Hall at The College of William and Mary
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Adam El...
2025-02-0451 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#27: "No One Leaves The Library" with Ben Hebert!Escape the stacks. Burn the books. Trail the Oregon. Charming guest Ben Hebert (host of the phenomenal podcast - "Bite-Sized") takes us to a public library in this week's fully improvised musical. But can his thirst for a life outside sway the legacy librarian, the sad sixth grader, or the mad mean Mr. Murray? It's a monoscene spectacular in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Hebert
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-01-2852 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#26: "Monkey in Chair" with Will Nicholson!Your wish is granted! It's charming guest Will Nicholson - but at what cost?? A magical monkey, a seasoned shopkeeper, his distant daughter, and so much more in this week's Charm Scene. Let's go go!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Will Nicholson
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-01-2153 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#25: "Saturday Nate Live" with Nathan Jansen!Live from Sam's apartment - it's Charm Scene! Charming guest Nathan Jansen recounts his time on a mysterious podcast at Edinburgh Fringe and takes us deep into the world of late night variety television in this week's fully improvised musical. Puppet performers, stunt spectaculars, exacting executives, and more! We're on in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Nathan Jansen
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
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2025-01-1453 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#24: "Forever Twelve" with Ali Gordon!Tween theatre ghosts, metaphysical four square, and a janitor with big original dreams. All this and more in the first Charm Scene improvised musical of 2025 - featuring Team Starkid's Ali Gordon! Happy BoOoOo Year!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ali Gordon
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2025-01-071h 01Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#23: "Noir Year's Eve" with Keenan Camp!Happy New Year from Charm Scene! Raise a glass as we round out 2024 with old acquaintance Keenan Camp! What do a grizzled detective, a bowl or oatmeal, and a mansard roof have in common? Absolutely nothing. Cheers!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Keenan Camp
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-12-311h 04Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#22: "Keep The HR in cHRistmas - PART TWO" with Allen Lucas and Ben Auxier!Welcome back to PART TWO of our Christmas two-parter, featuring charming guests Ben Auxier and Allen Lucas! Will we make it out of Santa's underground Christmas garage? Will our friends finally fulfill their festive wishes? And just who is the mysterious Holly Rose? These answers and more in this week's Charm Scene! Happy Holidays!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier, Allen Lucas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-12-2449 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#21: "Keep The HR in cHRistmas - PART ONE" with Ben Auxier and Allen Lucas!Happy Holidays from Charm Scene! We've brought together TWO of our favorite charming guests for a TWO ACT Christmas musical! Ben Auxier and Allen Lucas take us to a world of winter whimsy, where trials about. Christmas wishes, crises of faith, a problematic Santa Claus, and more. And don't forget to tune in next week for act two!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier, Allen Lucas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-12-1756 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#20: "Life's Not (Ren) Fair" with Haley Karlson!Hear ye! Hear ye! Charming guest Haley Karlson takes us back in time in this renaissance era improvised musical! Are you sexy? Cool? BItey? All of the above? See where you fit in in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Haley Karlson
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-12-1052 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#19: "The Last Six Scandals" with Sage Huston!An alien dog, a spy mom, and a scandalous mayor? What else could go wrong in this week's fully improvised musical, with charming guest Sage Huston! We're pulling back the curtain on local politics, so get in line now behind these 14 Colin Josts for the emotional ride of your life. Welcome to Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sage Huston
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-12-0353 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#18: "The Belmont Blues" with Tyler DeLoatch!It's a time jump jamboree! If you like "Merrily We Roll Along," "The Last Five Years," or that one episode of "Phineas and Ferb," you'll love this week's fully improvised musical - featuring charming guest Tyler DeLoatch! Explore the dynamics and psyche of Chicago's beloved "Blue Man Group," and discover the many things to do in Lakeview! Don't miss this heartwarming family story, or you're gonna be blue, man.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Tyler DeLoatch
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-11-261h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#17: "Man vs. Beast vs. Mortality" with Cat McDonnell!It's a classic tale of backyards and bears in this week's fully improvised musical - featuring charming guest Cat McDonnell! Join us as we discover the true nature of paternity, immortality, and Philadelphia. The door's always open (and freestanding in the middle of yard)!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Cat McDonnell
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-11-1957 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#16: "One Billion Cousins" with Andrew Baldwin!Some assembly required in this week's fully improvised musical! Inspired by charming guest Andrew Baldwin's real life family ties, we visit a family reunion, a nintendo-aided falling out, and a... re-reunion? Listen now!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Andrew Baldwin
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-11-1257 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#15: "The Angel With No Name" with Beth Nelsen!Names must be EARNED in this week's fully improvised musical! Charming guest Beth Nelsen, alongside a heavenly host of characters, takes us through the big bang, phone calls between realms, and the REAL origin of Christmas. Our most Biblically Accurate™ episode yet!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Beth Nelsen
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-11-051h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#14: "Bathroom Ghosts" with Amber Linde and Alex Garday!Happy Halloween! Get trick or TREATED to a two-guest spoOoOoky episode with Amber Linde and Alex Garday! Did you know the bathroom is the most haunted room in the house? Find out why there are so many damn ghosts in there (and how to get rid of them) in this fully improvised musical.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Amber Linde, Alex Garday
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-10-2959 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#13: "Puberty & Sangria" with Alex Garday!Picture this: it's the summer of 8th grade and you and your friends are exploring Spain, unsupervised. In this fully improvised musical inspired by Alex Garday's real-life adventures, join a ragtag group of teen boys as they discover music, architecture, and themselves. Also there's an unnecessarily nasty song about the Phillie Phanatic.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Alex Garday
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-10-2257 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#12: "Strong Mover" with Anna Bortnick!Strap in for a cross country road trip with Anna Bortnick! There are so many places in between Chicago and LA and we visit all of them. If you like rhyming names, unconventional marriages, and rare dollar bills, then come move with us in this fully improvised musical!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Anna Bortnick
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-10-151h 00Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#11: "Bananaman Rhapsody" with Mike Gospel!Charm Scene goes VIRAL. Get your camcorders ready as charming guest Mike Gospel (Phony Award Winning Musical, Anarchy, Baby Wants Candy) takes us back to the world of high school internet stardom in this fully improvised musical, all inspired by his real life 2009 YouTube sensation "Calculus Rhapsody!" We think you'll find it a-PEALING #teambanana
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Mike Gospel
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-10-0853 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#10: "The Path to Poo Poo Town" with Jen Connor!All aboard! This week, charming guest Jen Connor takes us to the magical land of Hoboken, New Jersey, and things are HEATING UP. Can two distant siblings transform their relationship in time for the big audition? Can our grizzled director make art in a world of participation trophies? Can squirrels swim? The path to answers is this way!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jen Connor
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-10-011h 01Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals#9: "Cyclone of Love" with Brandon Michael Thomas and Jessica Joy!ISU forever! Charming guests Brandon Michael Thomas and Jessica Joy are back for another fantastical improvised musical, this time inspired by Brandon's real life experience with college standup and greek life show choir. With wizards, prophecies, and Hugh Jackman, it's just another day at Iowa State University. Go Cyclones!
Cast: Austin Packard, Jessica Joy, Brandon Michael Thomas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-09-2458 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#8: "Dance & Distract" with Jessica Joy and Brandon Michael Thomas!Do you believe in magic? Watch as we turn one guest into two in this back to back double guest extravaganza! Charming guest Jessica Joy, alongside Brandon Michael Thomas, takes us into the world of magic, castles, and more in this fully improvised musical. Listen now, and remember - there's no improv in magic (unless we put it there).
Cast: Austin Packard, Jessica Joy, Brandon Michael Thomas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-09-1757 minCharm Scene: Improvised MusicalsBonus Episode! "That's the Joke" and more!Surprise! We're off this week, but we didn't want to leave you without your recommended dose of charm. Here are some of our favorite early test recordings, including a surprise appearance from our very first guest - Amber Linde! You just got CHARMED.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Amber Linde
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-09-1024 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#7: "Object Work" with JUST US!He was an improv kid. He was a jock. Can I make it any more obvious? Just us this week with a self-indulgent, improvised romp through the world of collegiate comedy, sports, and the forces that I guess try to keep them apart for some reason. Talk about a quad conflict!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-09-0342 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#6: "The President of Hollywood" with Daryn Robinson!What's that over there? Why it's the future president of the United States of America. How timely! Chicago comedy legend Daryn Robinson joins us for an improvised musical filled with political intrigue, dubious debates, and two very charming gerbils. Cast your vote today!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Daryn Robinson
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-08-2757 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#5: "The Coolest Kids at Camp" with Allen Lucas!Gather round, kids. You know what's cool? Friendship. You know what's not cool? A big ol' bag of drugs. Charming guest Allen Lucas helps us finally be the people that we wanna be in this week's completely improvised musical. See you at camp!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Allen Lucas
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-08-2054 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#4: "The Cursed Castle" with Heather Scholl!A curse. A castle. An ingenue. And so. many. books. Can charming guest Heather Scholl help us cross the moat in this fantastical improvised musical? The first rule of the pod is you gotta be confident.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Heather Scholl
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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2024-08-1354 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#3: "The Adventures of MetroMan" with Jono Mammel!Follow the shenanigans and triumphs of your city's newest superhero, MetroMan! He's great at lots of things in this improvised musical, like rounding up a rogues' gallery of wacky criminals, getting philosophical and sad, and maybe even accepting a new sidekick???
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jono Mammel
Keys: Sam Scheidler
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2024-08-0655 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#2: "Perfect Strangers" with Ben Auxier!Inspired by special guest Ben Auxier's experience in a murder mystery show, the gang improvises a musical in a mysterious vineyard, featuring Clue-like characters and their eccentric pets deep in the Ozarks.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier
Keys: Sam Scheidler
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2024-07-3050 minCharm Scene: Improvised Musicals#1: "Cruising into Love" with Amber Linde!In Charm Scene's very first episode, Austin, Lily, and special guest Amber Linde improvise a cruise-ship-themed musical featuring triplets yearning for their first kisses, a pharmacist who sells questionable remedies, and...Chuck E. Cheese? You're gonna want to be at your muster station for this one.
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Amber Linde
Keys: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chris Ditton
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