Open Mic

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CIC is happy to present a new Open Mic Night on Wednesday Nights. Sign up starts at 8pm. Show starts at 8:30pm 5 min spots to try out new material. Looking to try a new Sketch, Stand Up set, Musical number, monologue, story tellers series, slam poetry, all invited and welcome.

 

King of the Mountain

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Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Presents King of the Mountain, a long form Improv Competition. Eight teams will go head to head in a bracket style competition where the audience decides who will win. Each week the evening's winner will receive a cash prize and come back to defend their title and work toward a grand prize event and a featured evening of performance at the Chemically Imbalanced Theater.

The calendar is as follows:
Friday January 22, 2010 8pm
Fire cup
Laser Lynn and Cheryl
Entropy

Friday January 29, 2010 8pm
Charles Grodin
Plan B
The Sauce
The Giant Engels


Friday February 5, 2010 8pm
First and second place winners of the January 22nd match.

Friday February 12, 2010 8pm
First and second place winners of the January 29th match.

Friday February 19, 2010 8pm
Winner of the Feb 5 match and winner of the Feb 12 match.

Friday February 26, 2010 8pm
The winner will be showcased along side of some CIC house teams.

*Cash prize will be based on 25% of the door for each evening's performance. The grand prize will be 25% of the door over the course of the five-week run.

Tickets $10

Fridays @ 8pm

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Desperately Seeking

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CIC takes on the Chicago Reader again. After running our hit Improv show "Bad Review" for three years, where we took the worst Theater review and Improvised the show we felt the critic would rather see, we once again turn to one of our favorite Newspapers to inspire a brand new Improv show. Desperately Seeking takes a random ad from the Chicago Reader's Matches section and explores that person's life. Directed by IO and Annoyance veteran George McAuliffe and created by CIC's Artistic Director Farrell Walsh. Performed by CIC veteran Improvisers, this show will surely make you laugh out loud as the actors improvise an ordinary person's life and quest for love through the personals.





Featuring:
Jared Jeffies
Mike Johnson
Jill Fenstermaker
Letitia Guillaud
Jay Gish
Farrell Walsh
Laura Wilkinson
Adal Rifal

Directed by George McAuliffe

Tickets $10

Saturdays @ 8pm

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Pimprov

Open Run

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Chicago's favorite Improv Group is back for a limited run at the Chemically Imbalanced Theater. Hailed by critics and audiences a like Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes its Pimps that improvise its that simple.

"Politically Correct, No, Funny Yes!"- Chicago Tribune

"More Than Traditional Improv"- Los Angles Times

"Ho'larious"- Now Toronto Magazine

CIC is proud to present this limited engagement with our dear old friends of Pimprov. Pimprov creator Marz Timms said "CIC is as close to a home theater as Pimprov has, and looks forward to another great season of quality shows. CIC is a class company waiting to explode."

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The Comedy Showcase

The Comedy Showcase

Now in it's Tenth season, the comedy showcase is CIC's signature show. See three different improv and/or sketch groups evey week.

CIC House Teams and Guest Artists from all around the city perform weekly. Every show is different and the the line up changes from week to week.

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Date First Group Second Group Third Group
Feb 6 (Sat) Kate Roboctopus Counter Productive Lover
Feb 7 (Sun) No Show Superbowl Sunday
Feb 13 (Sat) Dozen Red Roses 96D 21st Century Men
Feb 14 (Sun) Boner Petite Stripper's Picnic Dummy
Feb 20 (Sat) Fart City No Peeking Counter Productive Lover
Feb 21 (Sun) Dozen Red Roses The Album Dummy
Feb 27 (Sat) Penny Candy 96D Pudding Thank You
Feb 28 (Sun) Houskeeping Scrunchies Dummy