HYPROV

With Asad Mecci and Colin Mochrie
Directed by Stan Zimmerman
Creative consultant Bob Martin

HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis, the international sensation from the brilliant minds of Improv and Comedy Legend Colin Mochrie (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) and Master Hypnotist Asad Mecci, made its New York City premiere this past summer. HYPROV was directed by Stan Zimmerman (“Golden Girls,” “Gilmore Girls”), and Tony Award winner Bob Martin (The Prom, The Drowsy Chaperone) serves as creative consultant. The production played a12-week limited engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre (101 East 15th Street at Union Square East)

The 100-minute live show combines hypnosis and improv - two art forms that have mystified and entertained fans, skeptics and everyone in between worldwide - for a totally unique comedy experience that The Times of London declared “a celebration of the human imagination.”

The evening begins with Mecci welcoming 20 volunteers on stage to be hypnotized. The four or five most receptive to hypnosis then join Mochrie to improvise the rest of the show, while fully under hypnosis. In the hands of two experts, and solely crafted from the volunteers’ uninhibited, unconscious minds, each show is an entirely original and completely unforgettable theatrical experience.

HYPROV (pronounced hip-rawv) was co-created by Mochrie and Mecci along with Mochrie’s longtime manager, Jeff Andrews, in 2016 at Toronto's Second City. After working it out on stage, they took the show on the road to Just for Laughs London, Just for Laughs Montreal and the Edinburgh Fringe where it was received with rave reviews in 2016 and 2017. The duo set out on a 50-city tour in 2019 and has, to date, performed over 100 shows across the U.S. and Canada. Hyprov is based on a production originally created and produced by Colin Mochrie, Asad Mecci and Jeff Andrews.

Joining creative consultant Bob Martin on the creative team are Jo Winiarski (scenic design), Jeff Croiter (lighting design), and music director John Hilsen.

HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis is executive produced by Cody Lassen and produced by Sarah Power, Oui BeLeaf (NHR), Jörn Weisbrodt, Brad Blume, Marc Stern Family, M.J. Power International Inc, Lorena Shiff, Drew Descourouez, Matteo Golini, MKFD; in association with Nancy Donohue, Kors Le Pere Theatricals, The Mecci Family, Joan Tosoni, Becky Whittle.

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