Have you ever had a soup so good that it made you cry with joy? Well, SOUP! Improv Troupe probably won’t make you weep, but we will make you cackle, guffaw, chortle, and even snort! Our menu boasts a charming blend of well aged and fresh minds and bodies brought together by a common need for humor and collaborative fun. Sponsored by the Lawrence Arts Center, Soup! Improv Troupe is a quirky combination of adults from around the Greater Kansas City area. Like any good soup, our SOUP! is enhanced by additions brought to the table by you, the audience. Every performance is unique, created based on your suggestions. Our improv style is rooted in bringing stories to life with good-spirited humor that packs a punch with sea shanties, on the spot musicals, and games galore. Come join us for a-once-in-a-lifetime bowl that you’ll tell your grandchildren about.
We throw together all the right ingredients for a good time!
*Audience participation is voluntary and does not involve being on the stage. As the audience, you are welcome to observe or share your ideas throughout.
I love the enthusiasm of Soup! The host is charming and the cast is huge with a couple of stand out improvisers. I enjoyed the variety of games and musical elements!
This group was obviously having a lot of fun together, and that made the experience more enjoyable. However, the group is too large to have everyone perform each game. It gets redundant when 5 groups do the same game format. There are some actors in the group who don’t seem experienced enough with forming strong character relationships with their partner instead of going for cheap laughs like playing animals or toilet humor. Energetic group, but too large and a few inexperienced at comedy.
As a professional improviser and student of comedy, I found this team large and low energy. The cast and host walked slowly on stage in silence instead of having any transition music or jokes in between games to keep the show interesting and high energy. During short form games there was a lot of silence in the audience as the scenes were not very grounded and seemed to ramble on. We kept waiting for punchlines, jokes and characters/relationships that we were invested in following.
I was disappointed with the musical game of “sounds like a song” where we the audience were supposed to say that phrase during the actors dialogue so they’d start singing. During the second game of this, the audience stopped saying the phrase totally, so the host did it instead, showing that we the audience were already tired and didn’t have a lot to stay interested in (topic wise or relationship wise). They played a lot of games multiple times with different players and it was a bit redundant to watch.
Very funny! I love how they roll with it. Each show is different since they use suggestions from the audience so I’d go again
A vibrant, wild, and imaginative group. Perhaps their finest moment of the night was the conceptualization of “That is That.” It was a moment simultaneously ridiculous and profound, which what else is there to aspire to in improv? Where do you go from here? Soup! found a way and will likely continue to do so. Great work.
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