Peninsula Players Seeks Musical Titles for Baby Wants Candy Improvisation

FISH CREEK, (Jan. 13, 2012) – Peninsula Players seeks from the community creative and playful submissions of new musical titles they would like to see improvised by the improv troupe Baby Wants Candy Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Door Community Auditorium. Those interested may email their submissions to Alan Kopischke at alan@peninsulaplayers.com, and he will place submissions in a hat to be drawn by Baby Wants Candy that night. They will then improvise that musical on the spot, accompanied by piano. Baby Wants Candy will not see any submissions until they draw one from the hat.

Peninsula Players and Door Community Auditorium have partnered to bring Baby Wants Candy, featuring Players favorite Erica Elam, to Door Community Auditorium as part of Fish Creek’s Winter Fest. Baby Wants Candy has performed over 1,700 completely improvised musicals to sold-out crowds from Singapore to Edinburgh. Community members submit titles of musicals that have never been performed before.

A brief, improvised performance by Door County students who will have had an improvisation workshop with Baby Wants Candy the day before will open the show. Door Community Auditorium Director Cari Lewis said, “We are so pleased to partner with Peninsula Players to bring a fun event to Door County in the winter and to be able to provide a great opportunity for the students as well.” The Chicago Sun-Times calls Baby Wants Candy “Chicago’s most consistently funny and crowd-pleasing show!” Erica Elam has trained with Second City and performed with Baby Wants Candy for several seasons. Erica has had leading roles at the Players in “Born Yesterday,” “Comic Potential,” “Rumors” and “Panic!” Tickets are available through Door Community Auditorium at (920) 868-2728.

Feb. 4, 2012    7:30pm Baby Wants Candy at Door Community Auditorium 

Peninsula Players is America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and is unique in the country for its diverse productions, continuing loyalty to a resident company, and its beautiful setting of 16 wooded acres along the cedar-lined shores of Green Bay. In the past 76 years, the theater has become a Door County landmark and its cornerstone arts institution, attracting audience members from throughout Wisconsin and across the country.