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So what is Alexander’s life legacy in the end – building Second City up into one of the world’s top comedy brands, with revenue reachingThe improv impresario sounded torn in a phone interview with The Globe and Mail from Los Angeles, where he is now based. In fact, he was even torn about giving an interview – sending a short statement first, then changing his mind the next day and deciding to talk.
In this case, the official @TheSecondCity Twitter account sent out a Black Lives Matters message that added: “To say nothing is to be complicit.”and Second City Chicago alumnus, took up the implied challenge – using that corporate tweet to kick off a Twitter thread listing alleged racist incidents. from white directors saying the n–word, to Black actors being sent to speech therapy to appeal to white audiences.
“Chicago, L.A., Toronto are all part of the same company and same family,” says Anthony LeBlanc, now interim executive producer as the company searches for a permanent replacement who, it has promised, will be BIPOC . “So the changes that we’re doing, it applies to everywhere.” This is an underlying challenge, LeBlanc says: “If your audience is mostly a homogeneous group of people, then that starts to determine what is funny, which starts to determine what makes the show, which determines who we hire to be in that show.”
The new theatres are necessary for the Toronto team to fulfil one of Second City’s pledges here – to create shows by and specifically for BIPOC communities.Second City Toronto has already been experimenting with secondary offerings in anticipation of the move, Rideout says, pointing to, an all–female sketch show, and its recent partnerships with Extravaganza Eleganza, a “queer–forward” sketch comedy group, and Tita Collective, an all–Filipina troupe.
This is 'Second City' in name only. Unlike its namesake, this is just a safe, dull group of mediocre talents desperate to avoid offending and whose priority is conforming as much as possible to current orthodoxies. 'Second City' is nothing but a brand name now.
Who else misses the days of movies like Blazing Saddles, where people had a sense of humour and wasn’t so GD triggered all the time?!
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