Charm Scene: Improvised Musicals
Join Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Music Director Sam Scheidler, and drummer Chris Ditton as they create brand new musicals — completely on the fly — alongside some of Chicago’s most charming music improvisers and performers. Welcome to the scene!
Episodes
It's our 40TH EPISODE! We're blowing the roof off this one-room schoolhouse in this week's Charm Scene! Charming guest Kaitlyn Nibbelin joins us for a coming-of-age story like none other. Selfish students, troublesome tree-people, handsome haberdsashers, and more! Who are you taking to the dance? Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Kaitlyn Nibbelin Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Insta...
It's TIME for another Charm Scene! This week, charming guest Bryan Duff takes us on a race against the clock in this time jumping fully improvised musical, with scintilating cyberpunks, brotherly bachelors, notable Newtons and more! The clock is ticking! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Bryan Duff Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us a message at CharmS...
It's our 4/20 spectacular, and we're just DYING for you to hear it. Keenan Camp returns, with snacks in tow, for a high flying, afterlife-spanning, fully improvised musical. Bestest buds, dope dances, troublesome trips, and more! Smoke 'em if you've got 'em for this week's Charm Scene! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Keenan Camp Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube...
Donut touch that dial! Daryn Robinson RETURNS in this fully baked improvised musical! And that's muffin to joke about. Foxy fritters, leading long johns, berefect bagels, and more! It's a bearclaw of an episode on this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Daryn Robinson Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton
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It's our APRIL FOOLS switch-em-up spectacular! We tied Sam to a microphone and brought in LEGENDARY Chicago Music Director - Lisa McQueen! Filled with precocious pigeons, adversarial ad-men, infantile improvisers, and more - we're headed back to an extremely accurate 1960s Chicago in this week's Charm Scene! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Sam Scheidler Music Director: Lisa McQueen Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod ...
Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for charming guest Devan Seaman in this week's fully improvised musical! Inspired by her time in pirate dinner theatre, join us as we enter a pirate restaurant inside a pirate ride inside a pirate themed amusment park. Batten down those betas, guzzle that grog, and prepare to be piratized in this episode of Charm Scene! Dead dolphins tell no tales! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Devan Seaman ...
Things are HEATING UP! Charming guest Jono Mammel RETURNS, this time taking us all the way back to early human history in this fully improvised musical - complete with ferocious fires, time travelers in training, smoldering sweethearts, and more! Welcome to the stone age! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Jono Mammel Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us ...
The doctor is IN. Join charming guest Liz McCreight in our sexiest improvised musical yet. Hot healers, infectious friendships, rambling reporters, and more! Can this doctor heal his patients, and more importantly... himself? Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Liz McCreight Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us a message at CharmScenePod@gmail.com!
Are you single and looking to mingle? Amiss and looking to kiss? Look no further than this week's fullly improvised musical! Charming guest Christian Torres takes us to a pop-up dating game, complete with bachelorettes, bodies of water, and the Bechdel Test. Find your special someone in this week's Charm Scene! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Christian Torres Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmSc...
We're "hanging on by a thread" in this week's fully improvised musical - with charming guest Derek Demko! Jealous Jacks, preoccupied parents, dirty dodos, and more. It's a jungle out there in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Derek Demko Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton
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It's time to impress your mom as charming guest Natalie Younger takes us back to our collective theatre-kid childhoods in this week's fully improvised musical! Captivating cousins, impractical plays, juicy jugs, and more! It's time for the show! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Natalie Younger Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us a message at CharmScene...
Brush up for this week's fully improsived TOOTH-sical as we welcome charming guest Deshawn Mason! Killer cavities, bumbling bicuspids, wisdom-toothed wizards, and more! It's all smiles on this week's Charm Scene! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Deshawn Mason Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us a message at CharmScenePod@gmail.com!
Escape the stacks. Burn the books. Trail the Oregon. Charming guest Ben Hebert (host of the phenomenal podcast - "Bite-Sized") takes us to a public library in this week's fully improvised musical. But can his thirst for a life outside sway the legacy librarian, the sad sixth grader, or the mad mean Mr. Murray? It's a monoscene spectacular in this week's Charm Scene!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Hebert Music Director: Sam ...
Your wish is granted! It's charming guest Will Nicholson - but at what cost?? A magical monkey, a seasoned shopkeeper, his distant daughter, and so much more in this week's Charm Scene. Let's go go!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Will Nicholson Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton
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Live from Sam's apartment - it's Charm Scene! Charming guest Nathan Jansen recounts his time on a mysterious podcast at Edinburgh Fringe and takes us deep into the world of late night variety television in this week's fully improvised musical. Puppet performers, stunt spectaculars, exacting executives, and more! We're on in 5... 4... 3... 2... Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Nathan Jansen Music Director: Sam Scheidler Follow u...
Tween theatre ghosts, metaphysical four square, and a janitor with big original dreams. All this and more in the first Charm Scene improvised musical of 2025 - featuring Team Starkid's Ali Gordon! Happy BoOoOo Year! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ali Gordon Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton Follow us @CharmScenePod on Instagram and YouTube, or shoot us a message at CharmScenePod@gmail.com!
Happy New Year from Charm Scene! Raise a glass as we round out 2024 with old acquaintance Keenan Camp! What do a grizzled detective, a bowl or oatmeal, and a mansard roof have in common? Absolutely nothing. Cheers!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Keenan Camp Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris Ditton
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Welcome back to PART TWO of our Christmas two-parter, featuring charming guests Ben Auxier and Allen Lucas! Will we make it out of Santa's underground Christmas garage? Will our friends finally fulfill their festive wishes? And just who is the mysterious Holly Rose? These answers and more in this week's Charm Scene! Happy Holidays!
Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier, Allen Lucas
Music Director: Sam Scheidler
Drums: Chr...
Happy Holidays from Charm Scene! We've brought together TWO of our favorite charming guests for a TWO ACT Christmas musical! Ben Auxier and Allen Lucas take us to a world of winter whimsy, where trials about. Christmas wishes, crises of faith, a problematic Santa Claus, and more. And don't forget to tune in next week for act two! Cast: Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Ben Auxier, Allen Lucas Music Director: Sam Scheidler Drums: Chris...
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