Something Wonderful Platform
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Something Wonderful Right Away
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.
Pastor! Pastor!
Pastor! Pastor! is a fictional microcosm of what is going on in many orthodox churches today. Rev. Bert Davenport is trying his best to mediate between the two factions in his church. If we dont modernize . . . my kids are leaving the church. Progressives clamor increasingly for change. Your doom and gloom sermons gotta go, Bert. The sanctuary gotta be gussied up. And while were at it, you need to look more like a twenty-first-century pastor than one thats stuck in the 50s. If that loud, raucous music comes into our church, you can kiss out tithes and offerings goodbye, preacher . . . Were outta here. Bert Davenport is amendable to change that could put a stop to his members exiting rather than entering the sanctuary. But his calling to preach the Word remains firmly ensconced in his psyche. Come hell or high water until God tells him otherwise, Berts going to preach salvation. The churchs function on earth, he intones over and over, is to teach men principles that help them live profitable on earth and prepare them to meet their Maker when their time comes. The fissure widens and gets ugly. Davenport finds himself facing expulsion from his church via a court civil suit. The pressure intensifies; innuendoes and accusations increase. When Berts job-like situation becomes intolerable. God steps in with his miracle.