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My Summer Vacation from CIC

By Angie McMahon

So on my summer Vacation from CIC I have been so lucky as to be cast

in a show with another Theater Company. The Factory Theater They have

been so kind as to cast me as a SoccerMom Zombie in there summer hit

Siskel and Ebert Save Chicago.

Not only am I having a really fun time but opening night we had a huge

treat. Roger Ebert the man himself came. He reserved the ticket under

a false name, and paid cash for himself and his party. He was the last

one to be seated in the house, and of course the cast had no idea he

was there. We were told he laughed a lot during the show. After the

show the buzz started around our 20 person cast that the man himself

was just outside. We all gathered on the side walk to watch him hoping

to catch some sign of approval from the man we had come to love over

the past three months. He instructed his driver to pull around and he

put his arm out of the car and gave the cast a big Thumbs Up!

Later in the Run he would write this in his column:

Q. In the wake of "Jerry Springer, the Opera" comes "Siskel and

Ebert Save Chicago," Factory Theatre's spoof now playing at Prop

Thtr. Along with you and Gene, the play factors in Richard Roeper,

Mayor Daley, Oprah, Dr. Phil, talk radio's Mancow Muller,

roller-skating she-devils and a plot to conquer the world. What

does the Answer Man have to say about all this?

Laura Hunt, Chicago

A. I attended opening night in curiosity mixed with dread but

actually enjoyed myself. It's manic slapstick, heavy on the

four-letter words, very physical, with Gene as a James Bond type

and me as a movie dork. They're pretty hard on Richard, too. And

Oprah and the mayor -- everybody, indeed, but Gene and the Roller

Derby she-devils. But the most obvious flaw is that Gene is the

hero and has all the best lines, including a closing soliloquy in

praise of the movies that is so lyrical and touching, I might have

written it myself.

This morning the Cast was invited to the Mancow Show. If I can get the

podcast on tape I will add it to this blog later.

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Video in Studio at Mancow

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This has by far been the most exposure I have ever gotten in a show,

and I only have 3 lines. But it has been a ton of Fun, and I hope you

will make it out to see the show. It runs Fri and Sat at 8pm and Sun

at 7pm through the end of July. Check out Factory's Website for more

info.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Improv City Vol 3

By Jay Gish