“Mostly improvised and entirely delightful hip-hop musical...If the words and action are unfailingly surprising, the music is more predictable, mostly bluesy chords that allow the improvisers to spin out noodles of melody...’Freestyle’ paradoxically soared when it took a breather from its giddy high spirits...And yet it is within the limits of improv, extremely tight, so that you never worry you will wind up watching the cast fall...The real secret...is the cast’s commitment to deep attentiveness.”
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“This wondrous collective delivers hilarious improvisational comedy, only in rhyme and with music...Their ability to transform suggestions into complex, rapid-fire rapping, spoken-word passages and full-blown musical numbers is simply mind-blowing...The verses were filled with amusing one-liners...Directed by Kail...the show proves fast, furious, funny and wildly entertaining. It is also blissfully free from distractions.”
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“So brilliant, so ephemeral. The world’s best stenographer couldn’t keep up with the rapid-flow of newly minted, slangy couplets and internal rhyme chains...If it seems like an impossible...feat, creating songs and vignettes...despite the fact that the building materials were supplied that instant, well…the boys have help...But they still have to slot in new words and narrative on a dime, keep to the beat, strain to maintain the euphony and be funny...Night of lyrical, comical, syncopated genius.”
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“’Freestyle Love Supreme’ is the brainchild of Miranda...It’s a delightfully wit-laced evening of comedy rap devised on the spot by a tight cadre of performers, backed by a pair of equally deft instrumentalists...The fast-thinking geniuses who turn audience suggestions into hilarious, rapid-fire rhyme leave you feeling happy...The show is reinvented at every outing, and the performers so seamlessly transform even the most absurd ideas into rapped stories.”
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“A unique blend of improvisational theater and hip-hop music...Due to the very nature of improv, no two performances of ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ will be exactly the same...That variance is further enhanced by the changes in lineups during shows...The creative performers on stage never miss a chance to turn something into a musical moment...With such a style, there’s no such thing as dead air.”
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“A quirky, high-energy, all-male vocal ensemble that combined improvisational comedy with hip-hop...The 75-minute show consisted of spontaneous riffs and impressively elaborate raps based on audience suggestions...The improvised rapping was both verbally sharp and musically robust, with the lead vocalists aided by human percussive effects and keyboardists providing bass and melody, while the tone alternated between broadly comic and genuinely heartfelt.”
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“It's easy to dismiss all of this as dorky boys performing party tricks, but the fact that each show is devised on the spot makes ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ the only rapid-response musical theater off-Broadway, with the content literally coming from the things the viewers and performers are thinking about...It's exhilarating to encounter lyrics that are as fresh as this morning's bread, and even more delicious.”
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“The only part of ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ that doesn't bounce off an audience response comes at the very beginning when four voices announce a ‘mic check’...Fast and funny...Although the quick riffs off of topics such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent ‘bad guy’ presentation and the headlines concerning Jeff Bezos provide great laughs it's the enormous trust and teamwork on display that makes ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ such a pleasure to watch.”
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