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Congratulations to the folks at Freestyle Love Supreme! The Tony Awards announced a special honor for the group of hip-hop improvisers. Here’s the citation: For more than 17 years, the same dedicated producers, creative team and founding company members of Freestyle Love Supreme have aspired to make people laugh, bring audiences joy …
Freestyle Love Supreme has kicked off its grand Broadway debut, and to celebrate, the improvising hip-hop comedy troupe gave Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show audience a taste of what their shows look and sound like. Roll the clip.
The hip-hop improv comedy group now known famously for featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda as its frontman used to play for audiences at Ars Nova more than a decade ago. They moved on to dates at Comix and Joe’s Pub, performed at Super Bowl Week for ESPN, and a TV series on …
There’s a new school in town for aspiring comedy improvisers. And it comes courtesy of the hip-hop musical comedy troupe Freestyle Love Supreme, best known for what its co-creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail have gone on to accomplish on Broadway. Now they’re ready to train the next generation …
Lin-Manuel Miranda and his improvised comedy hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme have scaled even greater heights on Broadway, first with Miranda’s semi-autobiographical In The Heights, and now with the transcendent musical Hamilton. Miranda’s co-conspirator in creating Freestyle Love Supreme, Thomas Kail, directs Hamilton. And Christopher Jackson (C-Jack in FLS) plays …
Freestyle Love Supreme has been racking up individual accolades over the past several years, from Tony and Grammy Awards (In The Heights) to reviving The Electric Company for PBS, to an Emmy (collaborating with Will.I.Am) and multiple other nominations for their stage and screen work. But tonight, you’ll see them …
New cable channel Pivot enjoyed Freestyle Love Supreme‘s improvised hip-hop comedy special in March so much, it announced today it has ordered up 10 additional half-hour specials from the NYC-based musical comedy crew. The series upgrade came as part of Pivot’s full slate of new shows, renewals and development projects …
Neil Patrick Harris closed out his hosting duties on the 2013 Tony Awards on Sunday night with a freestyle rap and backing melodies from five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail, Tony winners themselves for In The Heights and also erstwhile founding members of Freestyle Love Supreme, …
Hip-hop improv comedy group Freestyle Love Supreme flew down from New York City to New Orleans this week to celebrate Super Bowl Week with ESPN’s SportsNation. Each weekday, the fellas have been dropping new improvised rhymes for the athletes on the show. On live TV. As Chris Sullivan, aka Shockwave, …
The late George Carlin won a posthumous Grammy Award tonight for Best Comedy Album his final recorded performance, "It's Bad For Ya." His daughter, Kelly, accepted the award on his behalf during today's pre-telecast portion of the 51st annual Grammy Awards. Reuters reported that she recalled that "in a chemically …
