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unusual facts about Second City


John Ezell

Ezell's designs have also been featured in countless Regional Theatre productions, including performances at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre (formerly the Missouri Repertory Theatre), the Arizona Repertory Theatre, Chicago's Second City, the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse.


Faith Soloway

She studied theater at Indiana University and performed improv comedy regularly, along with leaving school to tour with Second City.

Monteith and Rand

Suzanne Rand and John Monteith are Second City graduates; Suzanne was in the famed company that included John Belushi and Bill Murray in Chicago, and John performed with John Candy, Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner in Toronto.

Playwrights Theatre Club

The Playwright's Theatre Club led to the creation of The Compass Players and later The Second City.


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Byrne Piven

They returned to Chicago in 1967 to rejoin Sills, Sheldon Patinkin, Bernie Sahlins and Joyce Sloane in forming Second City Repertory and then Story Theatre.

Cincture of the Theotokos

The second city was Yekaterinburg where about 150 thousand of people from nearby territories came, including regional governor Alexander Misharin.

Dunedin cable tramway system

It is significant as Dunedin was the second city in the world to adopt the cable car (the first being San Francisco).

Eliot Wald

One of many Second City alums to join Saturday Night Live, Wald contributed to the show in an era known for performances by Eddie Murphy and Billy Crystal, often collaborating with another Chicago writer, Nate Herman.

Huye

Butare, Rwanda's second city and the capital of Huye District.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic hosted the weekly radio show "Second City Radio" on WCKG-FM, and taught improv classes at Columbia College Chicago and The Second City.

Karen Abbott

She has written Sin in the Second City, which tells the true story of the Everleigh Club brothel and the nation-wide battle to shut it down, and American Rose, about stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee and American culture during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression.

National Gallery of Zimbabwe

The National Gallery in Bulawayo is a branch of the NGZ in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo.

Penelope Peterson

From May 13–16, 2009, Peterson traveled to Beijing, China with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, as part of a cultural and business exchange between the Chinese capital and the Second City.

Ron Pederson

He was discovered in Hollywood while improvising at The Second City with Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard In Joe Flaherty's The Soap Also Rises in March 2002.

Scott Adsit

He appeared in the 1997 PBS documentary about the process of creating the multi-award winning Second City review, Paradigm Lost, Second to None along with castmates Tina Fey, Kevin Dorff, Rachel Dratch, Jenna Jolovitz and Jim Zulevic.

Teresa Pavlinek

Teresa studied at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and became part of Second City Toronto after graduating.