I just found out that I got the last slot in a workshop at The Second City in October. Woot! So I fly in on a Thursday night and then it’s all-improv all-the-time for three whole days. Plus going to a Mainstage show with the class on Friday night; of course I’ll go to one on Saturday night too. I’ll have to go to as much as I can while I’m there–I need to check the schedules for iO and the Annoyance too, because it would be bad if I don’t at least try to hit those while I’m so close by. I wonder if all the theatres are grouped together like they are in New York, where it’s easy to make a quick run from one show to the next one and thus see several at different venues in one night. I’ll have to figure this all out before I go; I’ve been to Chicago before but I would not say I am “familiar” with the city at all.
I am rather curious about seeing a Second City show, not to mention being in one of their workshops, because from what I gather it’s quite a different style than I am used to. I am not entirely sure I’m going to like it as much. Although of course I am keeping an open mind. Plus it’s The Second City! Just the name alone makes me think there’s bound to be some part of it I really enjoy, if not all of it. There have been too many people whose work I greatly admire who studied there to not like it just for that alone. Plus it’s good to work with different teachers and see different styles, so I am looking forward to it very much. I’m so glad I got in! I have planned to go and then the flight I would have needed got completely booked so I said screw it, but then on a lark I checked again later on and the flight had re-opened–so I bought the ticket and sent in the application and now it’s all set!
As if I’m not crazy enough with flying to Chicago for a class, I am also taking another UCB class every week in New York starting in October also (which starts after the Second City one of course). So my current plan is to drive to my mom’s in Connecticut on Friday nights and then drive to New York on Saturday morning, take my class, and then hang out in the city for the day—see various shows, go to museums, whatever–and then drive back to my mom’s on Saturday night and spend the night. Maybe stay over a few times in the city but not every weekend. Then on Sunday early afternoon drive back to Boston so I can take my other class at ImprovBoston that night. This will last about 8 weeks although there are a few weeks in there that I won’t have both classes on that weekend because IB is moving into a fabulous new space and so the class schedule got adjusted while they set things up.
And I’m in a play (a scripted–not improv’d–play) in September, just a short little thing but it sounds pretty funny. I get to act silly and maybe even speak horrendous French! (Please note that I actually speak beautiful French–thank you very much–but it’s fun to do it “bad”–terrible accent, loud-talking [that makes it easier to understand, doesn’t it?] 
, pronouncing all the S’s, etc.)
Phew! That’s a lot of driving and improv! It also means that for 8 weeks I will have barely any time on the weekends to do anything else. This is really going to be the time I need to hire Merry Maids.
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