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Musical Improv Level One with Cheryl Horne and Rodney Marfil

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Class Days: Thursdays 6:30pm - 8:30pm (in-person)
Begins: Jul 30, 2026
Ends: Sep 17, 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: Cheryl Horne

Cheryl Horne is a singer and actress from Long Island, NY. She studied Musical Theater in High School and college and graduated from SUNY Old Westbury, with a degree in Multicultural English Literature. She is currently an English teacher and mentor for grades 6-12.

Cheryl is also very involved in her community. She is the Drama Ministry Director at Bread of Life World Outreach Center; and she is also co-founder of Happy Harmonies, a charity organization that raises money for homeless communities, hurricane relief victims and other disenfranchised groups, with her best friend Vanita Kumar. She loves improv, singing, reading, book club, spending time with family, and dancing (even though she isn’t exactly a “dancer”).

Cheryl had the pleasure of studying “regular” improv under Rick Andrews, Megan Gray and Louis Kornfeld, and musical improv under Nikita Burdein, Miles Lindahl, Micheal Lutton, Annie Moor, Dan Reitz, and Frank Spitznagel. She loves being a part of the Magnet Theater community and is grateful for the talented people she is privileged to perform with.

Instructor: Rodney Marfil

Rodney Marfil studied jazz piano with Harold Mabern at William Paterson University, where he received a Bachelor?s of Music, and classical piano with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received the Eubie Blake scholarship for ragtime piano. He has worked as a performing pianist for over nearly 20 years. His first professional experience was playing standards and pop classical piano at Sears as a senior in high school. From 2008 to 2011, Rodney was musical director for the famed ?Second City? improv theatricals boat co. out of Chicago and now regularly performs improvised musicals at The People?s Improv Theatre, The Magnet Theatre, and Upright Citizen?s Brigade in New York.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Jul 30, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Aug 6, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Aug 13, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Aug 20, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Aug 27, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Sep 3, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Sep 10, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Sep 17, 2026, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)

Show Schedule*

Sep 19, 2026, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}