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Lots of New Shows This Weekend
2008-01-11 15:48:00
This weekend we hit full swing in our new space with two shows each night Fri-Sun.The Book of Liz Kicks us off Tonight at 8pmWe start our Friday Night Comedy Showcase at 10:30pmAnd we bring back our Hit Improv Show Bad Review, Sun @ 8pmHere is the Bad Review we will be doing on Sunday:LORD BUTTERSCOTCH AND THE CURSE OF THE DARKWATER PHANTOM Noted playwrightsLisa Dillman, Rebecca Gilman, and Brett Neveu teamed up for this sophomoricspoof of pre-World War I mysteries and romances. These three are gifted writers, butparody is not their forte. Set at a supposedly haunted English country estate, this mostly unfunny comedy pokes fun at writers ranging from Mary Roberts Rinehart and Elinor Glynn to D.H. Lawrence and P.G. Wodehouse. But the self-indulgent, often vulgar script is woefully short on wit, and Blindfaith Theatre's production relies on broad physical humor that quickly grows tiresome. The show's saving graces are composer Mikhail Fiksel's live incidental music and designer Gra...
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Cornwallis Headlines Friday!
2008-01-08 20:57:00
We have our first Friday Night Showcase to open this week. And our very own Cornwallis is the headliner.Here is a video from there last performane in the New Theater:CornwallisAdd to My Profile | More Videos if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Chemically Imbalanced New Year!
2008-01-07 19:49:00
Happy New Year ! Here is a clip from our New Years Eve Party! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';

We support the Writers!
2008-01-03 20:09:00
Normally I only put CIC company members blog entries on the site, but today wanted to share with our blog readers this youtube about the writers strike.Not that our support means much, but for what its worth we support your strike. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Our New Home
2008-01-02 17:18:00
Company Member Matt Hendricks did a mini documentary on our opening night of the new space. Check it out.CIC OpeningAdd to My Profile | More Videos if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Hippy Holidaze
2007-12-26 16:07:00
From our good friend Paul Baio out in LA:Hippy Holidaze on Fun nyOrDie.com if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';

We passes the Inspections!
2007-12-21 17:19:00
So on Tuesday the "Task Force" came out to inspect us for the Performing Arts Venue Licence.This was one of the most nerve racking events of my young life. I went out and bought a dozen bagles and two big Box 'o Joe's (not as a bribe but as a gesture of good will, to put said inpectors in a good mood) but it wasn't needed. Everyone was so nice, and they told me the little things they would like me to work on next time through (for example the fan in the bathroom doesn't work, but the window opens. So technically that passes the Venilation Department because the bathroom can be ventilated. But he would like us to fix the fan). Everyone was friendly and nice. Telling me what other inspectors might look out for, what to work towards, and so on. The Main thing was that the space was safe for folks to get in and out of. It is so we passes with flying colors.Yeah! Merry Christmas indeed! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOG...
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Judy and Tinsel
2007-12-20 18:59:00
Here is a sneak peak at a bit from our current show "Seasonal Disorder 3: Christmas in Paradise... Arizona"This is a Holiday Talk back with Judy McClure and TinselJudy and Tinsel in Seasoal Disorder 3Add to My Profile | More VideosAlso just a fun note, if Judy had a Son it would be this kid: if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';

Xmas Stan
2007-12-19 15:34:00
by Jay GishLittle boy Stan has an unhealthy attachment to Santa Claus, in this holiday parody music video. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Wayback Machine
2007-12-17 14:45:00
Looking back at one of the First Theaters CIC produced shows at. Here is an old Youtube video of "Los Shut Up" performing at the CIC showcase at Frankie J's if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Chicago Reader Review
2007-12-14 15:39:00
CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE . . . ARIZONA Farrell Walsh's episodic comedy follows the yuletide adventures of an unflappable little girl who gets sent to Arizona to spend Christmas with her loser uncle and ends up helping a Mexican-American ostrich farmer reunite with his family. Walsh occasionally displays a flair for characterization: the excitable ostrich farmer (played with cartoonish precision by Brian Kash) and a slacker border-patrol vigilante are especially vivid. An improvised audience therapy session, held halfway through this Chemically Imbalanced Comedy show and led by a wittily passive-aggressive Angie McMahon, is the highlight. --Zac Thompson if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Radio Interview on WBIG
2007-12-13 12:08:00
This is a Radio Interview Angie McMahon did on WBIG for the New Theater Space. Take a listen: *Please Note our Open House was Nov 30. This interview happend before that date. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Happy Elf!
2007-12-12 14:04:00
CIC's Happiest Elf's wish you a great Holiday! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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96D Improv Set
2007-12-11 14:49:00
Check out our new space!We taped a few shows this weekend and will post 'em through out the week.This is Sponsored Improv Troupe 96D's set this past Saturday Night.96 D Improv SetAdd to My Profile | More Videos if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';

High School Student Review
2007-12-08 23:08:00
On our last night at the Cornservatory a High School Student named Theresa attended our show and wrote a paper on her experience. Here is what she had to say:At the Cornservatory in Chicago, every Saturday night at 10:30p.m., three random and local improvisational groups and a stand-up comedian showed what they had to offer in the Chemically Imbalanced Comedy's Saturday Night Showcase. Although the show will not take place any longer at their beloved Cornservatory, there is no doubt that the show will still have its audience dying of laughter at its new home at their very own Chemically Imbalanced Theater in Chicago.The Cornservatory itself is a quaint little theater, no larger than two classrooms put together, but in a good way. It fits about 50 people who are just there to have fun. One cannot miss this theater at all; there is a large sign reading "The Cornservatory" in funny print. But there also happens to be an oversized painting of fresh corn on the paint-chipped front door...
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Seasonal Disorder 3; Christmas in Paradise? Arizona
2007-12-07 18:46:00
by Farrell WalshDirected by Tom McMahonChicago?Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents our third Original Holiday Comedy in our brand new Theater Space.Eleven-year-old Laura Shultz is full of holiday spirit and nothing is going to get in the way of her having a Merry Christmas . When her mother ships Laura off to the desert, she must overcome hideous relatives, oppressive heat and a flawed immigration policy to bring a Merry Christmas to Paradise , Arizona .Cast (in order of appearance):Elisabeth GeirFarrell WalshAngie McMahonLori GossBrian KashSean KeithMike DevineLina BunteFriday @ 8pm and Sat @ 8pm Dec 7-29Tickets $12Box Office 1-800-838-3006Chemically Imbalanced Theater1420 W Irving Park RoadChicago, IL 60613 if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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My Loss is My Gain
2007-12-06 18:23:00
by Dave Whalley The other day I realized I lost my phone. What a huge pain in the ass. Sorry, can I say that here? I delayed several days before giving resolving myself to the possibility that my phone was gone. GONE!!! Every picture, ring tone, silly game and, most important, every contact, gone. I’ve never been one to think ahead and back things up. My handwritten address/phone book is outdated and mostly useless. Well, I was fortunate in one way. I had been using a pay as you go plan, which I was able to turn over into a contract plan. This allowed me to get access to more features, pay less for more minutes AND get a cool new phone for next to nothing while keeping the same number. Not bad at all. I wasn’t all that fond of my old phone, anyway. It was too small, I could barely read the screen and the speaker had stopped working, so it would only vibrate and it didn’t hold a charge all that well, either. Good riddance, I say. But, what about those contacts? Oh, th...
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Better than Carson Daly
2007-12-04 23:05:00
by Jay Gish Jonesing for new late night talk show comedy, since the writers went on strike? Well, this will seem new, if you haven't seen it...a low rent parody of late night comedy I produced, circa the late nineties. And in any case, it's far more entertaining than that lame Carson Daly show, dammit. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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CIC's Having Auditions
2007-12-03 22:23:00
Chemically Imbalanced Comedy annouces auditions for a new Sponsored Improv Troupe to perform in our Friday and Saturday Night showcases.Auditions will be held on Saturday Dec 15 from 1pm-4pm at the Chemically Imbalanced Theater, 1420 W Irving Park Road. It will be a group auditions and you are asked to be at the audition the entire time. Please bring a headshot and resume with you to the audition. The entire audition will be improv based so nothing to prepare at this time.To sign up for an audition slot please email auditions@cicomedy.comDirector of the New Troupe:Jorin Garguilo performs the Movie with Our Feature Presentation at iO, with Revolver @ IO, Mustang Repair at The Playground and The Chicago Sashay Company, coaches the Very Real Cops, and hails from North Carolina's ComedyWorx.About CIC:Chemically Imbalanced Comedy is an 8 year old Not For Profit Theater Company that focuses on all things Comedy including Improv, Sketch, Stand Up, Short Films, and Plays. To learn more abo...

A balanced stage picture
2007-11-29 19:10:00
Time Out Chicago / Issue 144 : November 29, 2007 - December 5, 2007Rabble-rouser Angie McMahon finds an Artistic Home for Chemically Imbalanced Comedy.By Kim Jeffries WE ROLLIN’, THEY HATIN’ McMahon and co. do it their own way. Being a nomad isn’t fun. But Angela McMahon, executive producer and cofounder of vagabond theater company Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, tried hard to make it work over the last seven years. But her 20-member group won’t have to cart around its sketch, improv, stand-up and comic theater pieces for much longer. After wandering from Wise Guys pub to Frankie J’s on Broadway to the Cornservatory, CIC takes over the 40-seat Artistic Home theater in Lakeview, with its Saturday showcase remounting in the new space starting Saturday 1.“We were under a lot of constraints being an itinerant theater company,” she says, sitting in the dusty black-box space during a break in renovat...
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Three Days till we open!
2007-11-28 17:09:00
by Angie McMahonThis is gonna be a long one cause I haven't had much time to write so I am gonna just try to sum up this past month.On Oct 31 at 6pm I got the call from the Artistic Home that they were ready to give me the key. I got in the car and went right over there. I had been waiting all day for the call. When I got there the Artistic Director was waiting with a company member for a ride to come get them. I got the key, excused myself and started to hang my sign in the window: I wasn't even gonna wait for the body to be cold, I wasn't gonna waist one second of marketing time. It was Halloween and I wanted drunk teens to know where we were!The Next Day was cleaning day. The idea was we would clean everything so we weren't gonna get dirt on top of dirt. The highlight for me was 1. I shoveled six 33 gallon garbage bins of dirt out of the basement. The walls crumble and the last folks didn't (at least it looks like to me) shop vac on a regular basis. Also 2. I worked...
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Coffee’d Up: American Idol
2007-11-21 15:35:00
by Jay GishSure, there's no season of American Idol currently running...but the next one's never far off, right? Here's some back-and-forth about the show, to help fill the gap...in a cartoon I call, "Coffee 'd Up." if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';

I'm going to miss the Cornservatory.
2007-11-20 21:06:00
by Sarah BorerThere. I said it.I'm not going to miss that dead animal stench that you could sometimes smell when you walked back to the bathrooms (it came from somewhere underneath the seats, I'm not sure what it is and I really don't want to know). I'm not going to miss the lavender (or whatever color they had decided on for the month) stage. I'm not going to miss having to work around someone else's schedule. I'm not going to miss the extremely hot summers. I'm not going to miss the stairs leading down into the basement that I am still surprised I never fell down. I'm not going to miss the corn stalks painted on the outside of the building (although it did make it easier to give directions). I'm not going to miss the brief moment of panic that I felt every night after locking up, thinking that I'd forgotten to turn off a light or restock the toilet paper or unplug the lightboard.So what the hell am I going to miss?It's been over 3 years now since I first stepped into t...
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Things are coming along in the new space!
2007-11-19 16:07:00
This is the stage area This is looking into the audience from the stageThis is the dressing roomThis will be our bathroom if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Working Hard!
2007-11-15 04:15:00
Some pics of the New Space Coming Soon! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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12 Days till our final show at Cornservatory!
2007-11-13 13:54:00
We are moving soon!Upadates soon! Promise. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Grandma June's Sewing Circle at Snubfest
2007-11-12 14:25:00
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Before and After
2007-11-09 13:43:00
by Jay GishA recent comedy video from CIC?s Jay Gish along with Jeff and Adam Zwirek, who have also graced the CIC stages. An up close look at the world of twins. if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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More Sneek Peek
2007-11-07 17:10:00
Here is a ton of BEFORE pictures of the space! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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Sneak Peek
2007-11-06 14:22:00
We are working hard on our new space!More updates coming soon, promise! if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
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