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Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second Cityâ€”America's Greatest Comedy Theater

By (author) Jeffrey Sweet

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Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theatre created a generation of world classÂ great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theatresâ€”The Compass and The Second Cityâ€”where they satirised politics, religion and sex. Developing scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such ground-breaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Donâ€™t Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live.Â Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers who founded the empire that transformed American comedy. Â This new edition tells even more of the story. Included for the first time is an interview with Viola Spolin, the genius who invented theatre games that wereÂ the foundation of improvisational theatre. Also included are dozens of follow-up stories about Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, Del Close, Joan Rivers, Alan Arkin, and Gilda Radner, plus â€œYou Only Shoot the Ones You Love,â€ the story of how this bookâ€™s author, playwright Jeffrey Sweet, ended up being so involved in the community he covered that he was captured by it. Â

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