Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater by Sweet, Jeffrey
Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater by Sweet, Jeffrey

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...
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Author: Jeffrey Sweet
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Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater by Sweet, Jeffrey

Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater

CHF 36.86
Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater by Sweet, Jeffrey

Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy Theater

CHF 36.86
Author: Jeffrey Sweet
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don't Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live. Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers of the empire that transformed American comedy.

This new edition tells even more of the story. Included for the first time is an interview with Viola Spolin, the genius who invented theater games that were the foundation of improvisational theater. Also included are dozens of follow-up stories about Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, Del Close, Joan Rivers, Alan Arkin, and Gilda Radner, plus "You Only Shoot the Ones You Love," the story of how this book's author, playwright Jeffrey Sweet, became so involved in the community he covered that he was captured by it.



Author: Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher: Allworth
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781621538240

About the Author
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 of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Among the actors who have starred in his scripts are Ellen Burstyn, Alan Bates, Richard Kind, Nathan Lane, Jon Cryer, William Petersen, Amy Morton, Gary Cole, Jack Klugman, and Megan Mullaly.

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