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Preface
1. The Hutchins Plan
2. Tonight at 8:30: Connections Are Made
3. The High Priestess
4. The Great Director
5. David Shepherd's Dream
6. Shepherd Meets Sills
7. The Playwrights Theatre Club
8. Playwrights' Second Year
9. Enterprise
10. Viola's Workshop
11. The Early Compass
12. The Summer Ends
13. Enter the Actors
14. "Dump Us At the Cock"
15. An Escalation of Scenes
16. Out of Step at the Argo Off-Beat Room
17. Another Enterprise
18. The Atomic Compass
19. Meet Me in St. Louis
20. A Harder Game of Hurt
21. Explosions
22. Aftershocks
23. Fallout
24. Radiation
25. Radiation Burns
26. Nuclear Winter and Infrared Spring
27. The Point of the Compass
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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Kenneth Phillips
reviewed The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre that Revolutionized American Comedy on December 04, 2015
The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre that Revolutionized American Comedy
Depending on how one counts, twelve people have EGOTed, that is, won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award and one of those is the late Mike Nichols, X'53 (that is UChicago speak for he attended The College but didn't graduate). Nichols attributed his success to his days as an improviser and all of that started during his time at The University and at the Compass Theater, where he performed with Elaine May, who seemingly attended classes at the University but was never officially a student. The Compass, originally located at 55th Street and University Avenue, was where improv was born in the U.S. and the work there eventually led to the creation of Second City and to much of American comedy as we know it. Janet Coleman's book sets out that history and should be of interest to anyone interested in comedy or the University of Chicago (and if you care about both, it is, as they say, a must read). 'Randal C. Picker
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