The Sound of Young America: The Second City.

25th October 2007

We continue our journey into The Sound of Young America’s vast audio archive with this program from The Sound of Young America Classics. On this week’s show The Second City we’re joined by guest Anne Libera. Co-Artistic Director of the training school and author of the book, The Second City Almanac of Improvisation, Anne talks […]

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We continue our journey into The Sound of Young America’s vast audio archive with this program from The Sound of Young America Classics.

On this week’s show The Second City we’re joined by guest Anne Libera.

Co-Artistic Director of the training school and author of the book, The Second City Almanac of Improvisation, Anne talks about the Second City and how it has become a comedy empire. Among other things, we hear about the methods of improv used in the Second City and there are also some sound-clips from the Second City archive.

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