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Title: Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and The Compass Players by Jeffrey Sweet ISBN: 0-87910-073-7 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A biased reader loves this book
Comment: Jeff's review may be self serving, but so is mine - my dad, the late Bill Alton, is interviewed in the book. This is probably one of the best books about Second City because it is written in the words of those who created Second City. Don't get me wrong, Sheldon's new book is O.K. but this book is better. Bless Jeff for getting these interviews before we lost too many of the original performers. If you can only get one book about Second City - buy this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fine history of the grandaddy of all comedy troupes.
Comment: For those not familiar with the Second City, it is basically the granddaddy of all comedy troupes. Started in the mid-'50s as the Compass Players, it transformed into Second City in 1959 and has been going strong ever since, even opening sister theatres in Toronto & Detroit. So many of our current and past comedy stars have started here, it's mindboggling. The Belushi brothers, Bill Murray, Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, Chris Farley, Bonnie Hunt, Ryan Stiles, Richard Kind, David Steinberg, Alan Alda, Peter Boyle, the entire cast of "SCTV Network," Philip Baker Hall, Mike Myers, Bob Odenkirk, Tim Meadows, Dan Aykroyd... the list goes on and on. This book was written in the '70s and is a collection of interviews w/ several of the company's key writer/performer/directors, among them Gilda Radner, Avery Schreiber, & Mina Kolb. A must-read for anyone who loves improv, sketch comedy, theatre technique, and, specifically, the Second City!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and valuable to any student of improv
Comment: I read this book when I was first starting out in improv about 12 years ago. It features interviews with many of my heros and is still inspiring to me. I went on to work at Second City years later and found this book essential to my understanding of that place's traditions as well as the fact that traditions are made to be broken--with respect, of course.
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Title: The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre That Revolutionized American Comedy by Janet Coleman ISBN: 0226113450 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Days and Nights at the Second City: A Memoir, With Notes on Staging Review Theatre by Bernard Sahlins ISBN: 1566634318 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Improvise. : Scene from the Inside Out by Mick Napier ISBN: 032500630X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 15 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Drama and Performance Studies) by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills ISBN: 081014008X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Art of Chicago Improv : Short Cuts to Long-Form Improvisation by Rob Kozlowski ISBN: 032500384X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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