Wesley wrote:With great reverence to the Chicago style of improv, we will need to burn the entire city to the ground
Why not? It's been done before. All we need is a bovine patsy and we're good to go.
The Chicago fire was nothing compared to what happened to
Peshtigo on the exact same night. Chicago had much better PR - their fire killed 200-300 and burned over 2,000 acres compared to Peshtigo's losses of 1200-2500 people (there were as many unidentified dead in Peshtigo as all of Chicago's losses) and 1.5
million acres burned.
Regardless, there are aspects of Chicago that I love, the memory of the late, lamented Lounge Ax being one, the night I spent only $10 and had a great time downtown with my roomate the standup comedian (I was still an engineering intern at the time.) Pizzeria Due, Giordano's - while I like the East Coast grease-wheels, my heart belongs to deep-dish pie.
Still, the only football game I care about each year is the one where the Packers beat the holy living bejeezus out of the Bears, just on principle. Goddamn
FIBs...
As for the attacks on the other cities, you have my steel sworn and I'd be honored to lead the van against N.Y.
(I'm on a watch list now for that last sentence, aren't I?)
Nah. Per DHS there's nothing still worth hitting, er, saving in NYC or DC.
Oh, back on topic: I kinda like the cooperative and non-theatre notion of the word 'team' that makes it accessible to non-traditional theatre people. Conversely, 'team' rarely makes sense outside of a competitive and exclusive context. I'm with Shannon - I like 'troupe' or 'ensemble' better because the focus is more on the players and the art, not on the context in which they perform. Realistically, why should I care to destroy NYC and Chicago when they are imploding all by themselves without my help? I don't have to blow anyone for stage time here...
I also think the long-form/short-form argument is stupid because it often translates to The Harold vs ComedySportz which completely ignores plot- (vs theme-)based long-form and non-competitive/non-directed and non-emceed short form (Enter Strawman!) I still think Micetro is mostly ass but not because it's short-form, but that's another beaten-to-death topic for another day.
So there.