Recent Developments at Second City
Something's developing at Second City. Part of Second City's Directing Program, "Recent Developments" features a fun cast of six actors, working toward creating a sketch comedy revue. Each week they improvise scenes based on ideas they've come up with, and shape them into entertaining sketches with the help of audience feedback. Not all of the sketches were hard-hitters, but there is a lot of potential for greatness. A couple of scenes went over very well, including one about a family's unwieldy interaction with their mini-van's GPS system. The entire cast is very talented, and Joshua Hanson has great timing and gives those on-the-money, honest reactions that have the audience rolling. Musical director, Sean Sykes, gives impressive underscoring to the scenes, setting the mood but not distracting from the piece. It will be exciting to check back on this group when they have their run in Donny's Skybox this summer, and see what director Mike McKeown does to bring it all together.
"Recent Developments" has its last run this Thursday at 10:30 pm in Donny's Skybox at Second City and features James Asmus, Vanessa Bayer, Christy Bonstell, Joshua Hanson, Tim Heurlin and Wendy Mateo.
