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Characters, scenes, and songs created on the spot by our ensemble and based on your suggestions. You never know what might happen next...and neither do they! An improv show at The Second City is a lively, interactive event featuring the best improvisers in the world.

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These are ongoing weekly performance opportunities meant to give Second City Training Center students and graduates more experience on stages. You might just witness the next big comedy superstar-in-the-making!

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<p><span style="color: #191919;">Have you ever wanted to escape? The Second City presents the 112th Mainstage Revue The Devil is in the Detours, a hilarious and unhinged descent into a dimension where chaos reigns. Join our electric six-person ensemble as they sing, dance and rock the hell out in this interactive and immersive sketch and improv comedy revue.  Don’t miss out on the wildest comedy experience of your life.</span></p>


The Devil is in the Detours – The Second City Mainstage

<p>Step behind the velvet curtain into The Second City e.t.c., a lavish comedy speakeasy where the only rule for the evening is laughter. Outside, it’s winter. But here, the show is so hot and hilarious, it’ll melt away your troubles. This interactive world of illusion, decadence, and the illusion of decadence invites you to join in on a heist of hijinx sparkling with sketch, song, and improv spontaneity. The best kept secret? You are the most important part of the show. Join us and find delight. Right this way, your table’s waiting.</p>


Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone

<p>Chicago’s top comedians battle it out for laughs, glory, and sweet sweet points in an interactive game show, featuring a live studio audience (that’s you!) Performers go head to head in a series of hilarious challenges inspired by classic game shows like The Dating Game and The Price is Right, and current hits like Game Changer and Taskmaster. Wheel of Improv will leave your head spinning &#8211; with laughter!</p>
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Wheel of Improv

<p><span style="color: #191919;">Are you tired of taking grandma to watch a bunch of nutcrackers dance in a kick-line every year? Well, you could stay home and watch the same old reruns of A Christmas Story, OR you could dash through the snow to The Second City’s Jack Frost Roasting on an Open Fire. Festive family gatherings, office parties, classic holiday movies, and Mariah Carey’s entire catalogue will all be severely lampooned in this fast-paced, interactive comedy revue stuffed with seasonal songs, sketches, and, of course, a generous helping of our world-famous improv comedy. It’s the most “wonderful” time of the year.</span></p>


Jack Frost Roasting on an Open Fire

<p>2 Young Black Men come together to show case the best comedians in Chicago! Bringing every possible perspective and joke to the stage. Come hear the latest up and coming comics of Chicago. And be blown away by a storm of laughter at Comedy Typhoon!</p>


Comedy Typhoon

<p>Share silliness this holiday season with <strong><em>Rudolph Runs Wild&#8230;</em></strong> a jolly extravaganza for kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and reindeer of all ages! Featuring a fun and festive blend of family-friendly songs and sketches from The Second City’s rich comedy archives, fresh new material written specifically for young audiences, and &#8211; of course &#8211; the ridiculous improv hijinks The Second City is world famous for. Brighten your winter with this one-of-a-kind interactive theatrical experience offering audience members, young and old, the chance to enjoy the comedy fun both from their seats and by joining The Second City performers onstage! Make hilarious holiday memories with The Second City’s <strong><em>Rudolph Runs Wild&#8230;</em></strong></p>


Rudolph Runs Wild

<p>Belle, tired of her husband&#8217;s multiple infidelities, hatches a plan with her childhood sweetheart to end her marriage, and her husband for good. Together they, along with a time traveling witch and a haphazard con man, bumble their way through the attempted murder of Ebenezer Scrooge.</p>


Killing Scrooge

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<div class="ewa-rteLine">The comedy is side-splitting, the culture is strong, and the pleasure is all ours. On any night you might see, Ballet, Stand-Up, Mexican Folk Music, Circus acts, or even my Mom!</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Our show stands in the footsteps of Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Tim Robinson, Amy Poehler, Tim Meadows and the countless rest who have trained and started right here.</div>
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