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Re: Second City 50th Anniversary Weekend December 11th-13th
First up was iOldsters, which was Joel Murray, Isabella Hofmann, Joe Liss, Ken Cambell, and a bunch of others. They performed some straight-up long form and were all quite good, with Joe Liss really standing out.
Then was Beer Shark Mice, with all the regular BSM folks plus Kevin Dorff and Brian Stack and some other folks. Everyone was brilliant. The most memorable thing for me was Brian Stack as Jesus's droopy, milquetoast brother.
Finally was an Armando with about half of the earlier performers, lots of current brilliant iO folk (Jet, Blaine, TJ, Tim Baltz, etc), and Jon Glaser. Jimmy Corriane was the monologist. Prompted by a memory of a racist aunt from Corriane, Glaser started the show off with a scene with more n-bombs than a three hour set from Dave Chapelle. A theme of racism re-occured throughout. Some of the Armando was brilliant, and, again, everyone was great. For me, Tim Baltz stood out.
And I was so so tired that I ended up going home immediately to sleep - I kicked myself later for not going up to Mr. Stack to say hello.
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