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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wasson, Sam, author.     Subjects     Improvisation (Acting) -- History.     Comedy -- History.     Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wasson, Sam, author.       by title:      Improv nation : how ...         MARC Display

Improv nation : how we made a great American art / Sam Wasson. by Wasson, Sam, author. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Subjects Improvisation (Acting) -- History.   Comedy -- History.   Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780544557208 (hardback) 0544557204 (hardback) Description:  xiii, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm Contents:  Hi, how are you? -- We the Jews: 1940-1968 -- We the punks: 1969-1984 -- We the nerds: 1984- -- Goodnight, everyone. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate -- and often hilarious-- history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular. At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word of mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City, the massively influential comedy ensemble, and its offshoots-- the Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, SNL, and a slew of others. Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv in this richly reported, scene-driven narrative that, like its subject, moves fast and digs deep. He shows us the chance meeting at a train station between Mike Nichols and Elaine May. We hang out at the after-hours bar Dan Aykroyd opened so that friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner would always have a home. We go behind the scenes of landmark entertainments, from The Graduate to Caddyshack, The Forty-Year-Old Virgin to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we commune with a host of pioneers-- Nichols, Harold Ramis, Dustin Hoffman, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, and many others. With signature verve and nuance, Wasson shows why improv deserves to be considered the great American art form of the last half century-- and the most influential one today."--Dust jacket flap.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 792.02809 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 792.02809 Wass Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 792.0280 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 792.02809 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 792.02809 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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