Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals
Join Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Music Director Sam Scheidler, and drummer Chris Ditton as they create brand new musicals — completely on the fly — alongside some of Chicago’s most charming music improvisers and performers. Welcome to the scene!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
#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, m…
#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, …
#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 Stor…
Bonus 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,…
#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 L…
#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 disc…
#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 im…
#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 …
#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…
#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, …
#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 acce…
#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 p…
#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…
#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 improvi…
#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 stu…
#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 bac…
#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…
#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…
#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, infantil…
#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 insi…