If, on the other hand, if you’re up for a cheekier, more rough-and-tumble way of the holiday season, where anything holiday-related is reasonable game for satire, “The Second City: Holidazed & Confused” may fit you completely.
It’s lively. It’s impudent. It’s a little sexy. But don’t mix up the kind of draw crazy this seven-person collection does with the clap-your-hands-over-your-ears items that booze-fueled crazy groups consistently function. This is just PG-rated content.
For the most part, this is gag main. The speed is rapid and there’s short amount of a chance to dig into anything very greatly. But then, “deep” is not the objective. This is comedy’s rotate on guerrilla combat. You want to get in and out quickly, accurate the most fun you can before shifting on to the next draw.
Some of the images last no more than 10 second or so. They’re nothing more than crazy changes. And a long ones? 5 moments, maybe a little longer.
Most of that period period, they’re pleasantly turn, like the one where a caffeine-crazed suburbanite (Emma Pope) searching for a Pumpkin Liven Cappucino offends the sensibilities of the cooler-then-cool regulars in an city Coffee house.
Or the one which has a broken-hearted Siri stressing about her latest break-up with her partner Sam – “Sam Sang,” she describes.
But there are other images where the crazy is, for the briefest time, rather soft. Take the one where two women, both working with dementia, are patiently waiting to be selected up by close relatives. Home Andel Sudik and artists Pope and Anne Kershaw dairy lots of crazy out of the field. They could have gone dad with the crazy and create it slapstickishly crazy. But that could easily have gotten quite unpalatable. Rather, they skitter along a great comedy line, preventing mockery and displaying some authentic passion for the two figures.
They have the same kind of stability in a field where Amy Thompson, as a harried mom, scampers crazily around the Thanksgiving holiday desk, providing her unappreciative family associates. It’s very crazy. But there’s a feeling of despair, too.
There’s some enhanc. And the throw, which also contains Tyler Davis, Nate Varrone and Charles Pettitt, sometimes prowls the viewers searching for comical communications. Some work. Others flounder. But again, it’s never for long.
A mostly unheralded cause of the show’s success is songs director Mark Geveron-Smith. He rests at a key-board at the back of occurs and smooths over every unorthodox musical show situation the improvisers get themselves into. He’s unflappable. He just follows along with their stroking indiscretions, pulling in uncommon tempos and fast modifying time signatures in an attempt to create things take care of themselves completely. Musically discussing, he is a magic employee.
The company controls to stick a little fun at Higher Cincinnati, too, taking aim at the Bengals, Whites, Over the Rhine, Mainstrasse, Sky line Soup, Hyde Recreation area and a few others.
But there is nothing severe about their injections. “The Second City: Holidazed & Confused” is good-natured and good-hearted, if sometimes pithy. No blood stream was reduce in the desire of their vacation crazy.
The show is enjoying in the Thompson Shelterhouse Cinema at the Play house in the Recreation area through Dec. 31.
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