Now This

IMPROVISED MUSICAL SHOWS Our signature piece. Lots of audience participation. You provide us with information in advance, we combine it with suggestions from the audience and instantly create hilarious spoofs in every style from rap to opera. Because the show is designed to focus on your theme, organization, or guest of honor, you can be sure it will be appropriate for your event. Great for groups of any age interest or size. MURDER MYSTERIES Our murder mysteries can be done as an evening's entertainment or spread out over an entire weekend. Custom-scripted to fit your event theme, filled with laughs, they are a good choice for groups of 25-200. Larger groups (200-1500) will enjoy our "walk around" murder mystery. Attendees find and interview our costumed suspects in the crowd. Each has a clue to the murderer's identity. One suspect is lying. When all the true clues are combined, the case is solved and a winner can be chosen from all the correct answers your guests submit. A great way to spice up a stand up reception.

IMPROV WORKSHOPS Two actor/trainers take your group through a series of improvisational games designed to focus on the skills you wish to work on. These are especially effective in improving creativity, teamwork, flexibility, concentration, communication and listening. Workshops can be as short as an hour or run an entire weekend (and anything in between). INTERACTIVE TREASURE HUNTS Choose one location (e.g. the grounds of an estate) or all of DC. We'll have your group collecting clues, dancing, solving riddles and making up silly poems with the aid of our actor/huntmasters. Great team building activity! ENTERTAINMENT FOR KIDS We're DC's only totally improvised musical children's theatre. Our professional cast takes the audience's ideas and instantly turns them into songs, comic sketches and musical fairy tales. The Birthday Parties can choose either a lunch/show/cake package or a show/cake/ice cream package. The cast interviews birthday children, and makes up a personal birthday song about each one. NOW THIS! KIDS! is recommended by the Washington Post, Going Places With Children, The Children's Post, Fodor's and Frommer's Guides and WRC TV calls us a 'Best Bet.' We also have many different activities and exercises for team building and training seminars.

NOW THIS! has been featured at such distinguished venues as the Marquee Lounge, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, the Palm Springs Convention Center, the Grand Casino Hotel in Biloxi, MS and a few places we can only describe as "scary". Washingtonian Magazine calls us a "Great night out" and the Washington Post says "If you can imagine it, NOW THIS! can sing about it."? We have won the DC chapter of the International Special Event Society's ISES Award for Best Entertainment twice and the Esprit, the international version of that award.

In past seasons NOW THIS! has created hundreds of improvised musical shows for trade associations, major corporations, private parties and fund raising events. But we also.....

* Scripted and performed 3 days of sketches for a major computer trade show * Provided a comic MC for a national sales meeting in New Jersey
* Created and performed a walk around murder mystery for 1000 guests at a cocktail reception
* Scripted and performed a 4 day long, customized murder mystery as part of a training seminar for a major hotel chain
* Ran a mock quiz show on a bus full of airline execs
* Designed and produced interactive treasure hunts as team building for Fortune 500 companies