On Monday\, November 3rd the Community Center for the Performing Arts proudly welcomes Off Book: The Improvised Musical to the WOW Hall.
\n\nJessica McKenna and Zach Reino create a completely \;improvised \;musical \;in an attempt to combat the notion that musicals should be &ldquo\;carefully crafted&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;thought out at all.&rdquo\;
\n\nOFF \;BOOK \;&ndash\; THE \;IMPROVISED \;MUSICAL \;
\n\nJessica McKenna and Zach Reino create a completely \;improvised \;musical \;in an attempt to combat the notion that musicals should be &ldquo\;carefully crafted&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;thought out at all.&rdquo\;
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\n\nZach Reino and Jessica McKenna are a versatile \;musical \;comedy duo. They wrote and composed music for the WGA award-winning Peacock Series Baking It starring Maya Rudolph\, Amy Poehler and Andy Samberg. The duo has also written songs and \;musical \;sketches for the hit animation show Rick and Morty\, Party Over Here (a Fox sketch show produced by The Lonely Island)\, the Peacock series Pitch Perfect: Bumper In Berlin\, Buzzfeed\, FunnyOrDie and Nickelodeon. Zach and Jess are currently developing TV and Film projects with \;Amy Poehler&rsquo\;s Paper Kite Productions\, David Wain (The State\, Role Models\, Wanderlust) and Elizabeth Banks&rsquo\; Brownstone Productions. They also created and starred in Serious Music\, a digital series for ABC.
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\n\nTheir \;improvised \;musical \;podcast \;Off \;Book \;has been praised by various online publications including Indie Wire\, USA Today\, Parade\, AV Club and Splitsider and been featured at Comedy Central&rsquo\;s Clusterfest Festival\, Moontower\, the world renowned Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal\, and the Netflix Is A Joke Festival in LA. Zach and Jess were listed as one of Vulture&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Comedians You Should and Will Know&rdquo\; and in early 2019 they released their first full-length \;musical \;comedy album The Calendar Album with Comedy Dynamics.
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