Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:AllworthISBN-13:9781621538240ISBN-10:1621538249UPC:9781621538240Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Theater, Media StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC9Z2YK7NB
Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater
Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters--The Compass and The Second City--where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be...
Language:EnglishPublisher:AllworthISBN-13:9781621538240ISBN-10:1621538249UPC:9781621538240Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Theater, Media StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC9Z2YK7NB
Jeffrey Sweet is a founding resident writer of Chicago's Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater, where many of his plays (including The Value of Names, Porch, Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, and Court-Martial at Fort Devens) have premiered before playing on stages around the world. His book, The Dramatist's Toolkit, is a widely-used text on playwriting, and The O'Neill is a history...
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