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Musical Improv Level One

Musical Improv Level One with Stoddard "Stoddy" Blackall and Billy Soco

Sign up Class Days: Thursdays 6pm - 8pm (in-person)
Begins: Feb 5, 2026
Ends: Mar 26, 2026
Price: $299

Check below to see the full schedule for each session, see if your class skips a week for a holiday, and check out the date and time of your class show(s).

Class Description

Learn how to put your thoughts and emotions into song and take your improv scenes to the next level! In this 8-week course you will learn the song structures you need to make up musicals on the spot. No need to be an experienced singer! Through exercises in group dynamic, support, and movement, you will learn how to turn every song you improvise into a full-blown musical number. 8 weeks of classes followed by a class performance.

Instructor: Stoddard "Stoddy" Blackall

Stoddard Blackall has a bachelor of music in songwriting from Berklee College of Music and composing accolades from the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. In addition to being an all-night entertainer for Brandy's Piano Bar and The Duplex, Stoddard has served as pianist for the People’s Improv Theater, UCB, and traveling musical improv troupes such as Broadway’s Next Hit Musical and This Is Your Life.

Stoddard’s musical comic, When It’s You: The Songstrip is available at the StoddyStore, and on the shelves at Anyone Comics in Crown Heights.

His original songs can be found on all streaming services, featuring his brand new album, HoneyBe, which dropped on January 1st! Please visit Stoddardblackall.com, and make sure to catch him improvising songs every week on TikTok (@stodify)! Thank you for the undying inspiration, Frank Spitznagel!

Instructor: Billy Soco

Billy Soco is a first-generation performer of Filipino and Chilean descent based in NYC. He has performed on house teams at Magnet and UCB and currently performs with Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton, North Coast, ComedySportz NYC, and Story Pirates. He teaches at Magnet, Second City, North Coast as well as festivals and theaters around the world.

Follow him on IG @bsoco and learn more at www.billysoco.com

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Feb 5, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  2. Feb 12, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  3. Feb 19, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  4. Feb 26, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  5. Mar 5, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  6. Mar 12, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  7. Mar 19, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  8. Mar 26, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

  1. Mar 31, 2026, 8:30 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
    2. *scheduling subject to change