[Nightlife in Chicago 1948]
See what the nightlife scene in downtown Chicago was like in 1948 – in spectacular technicolor!
See what the nightlife scene in downtown Chicago was like in 1948 – in spectacular technicolor!
Witness silent film footage of Roosevelt College in its early days as filmed by some of its first students!
Watch a series of onstage performances at the Chicago Cultural Center!
Some of the newspaper columns written by Mike Royko are reenacted, parodied, and read live on stage!
Watch the pilot episode for the wild and whimsical Chicago talk show entitled, “The Cheap Show”!
I MARRIED A MUNCHKIN presents the life and times of Mary Ellen St. Aubin, a woman small in stature who lived large. She and her husband, Parnell St. Aubin–one of the original Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz–were in show business for much of their lives, until they retired to run the legendary Midget Club on Chicago’s South Side.
0:22 Credits, followed by a text crawl explaining the mission of the company. 1:02 Excerpt from The Bleacher Bums; Joe Mantegna, Dennis Frantz and others perform. 2:30 The voice of Stuart Gordon is heard over the performance; he explains, to an interviewer, the rapport that has developed between the players in the Organic Theater, and the degree to which this has allowed the company to put on original work. 3:16 Another scene from Bleacher Bums, featuring Williams. 3:54 In an […]