Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and the Compass Players by Jeffrey Sweet, Jeffrey Sweet

Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and the Compass Players

Jeffrey Sweet, Jeffrey Sweet

386 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1955, in the back room of a Chicago bar, a group of people began improvising satiric scenes of American life. The name of the group was the Compass Players, and their ranks included Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Shelley Berman, and Barbara Harris. ...

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