Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Tonight, my sketch group, The Backrow, had a tech rehearsal for our Sketchfest show. Sketchfest is Chicago's big sketch comedy festival. Nick asked me to join The Backrow when they were putting together a show for the first Sketchfest, five years ago. This was shortly after I moved to Chicago the first time.
Anyway, now, many Sketchfests later, the Backrow is finally doing one of those Best Of shows that most sketch groups trot out way too often. After five years, it seemed like it would be nice to revisit some old material. Plus, with Nick married to Katie, Trupe married to Wonak, and Alex pregnant with twins... well, we're busy.
This is our "promotional photo." Two weeks ago, while rehearsing in a park district room, we asked a guy taking a karate class next door to take a picture of us huddled around a piano. The sheet music is the sketch 'The Shirt' written by Trupe.
If you'd like to check it out, we're performing this Thursday at 8 at the Theater Building on Belmont. We're in the South Theater, with Sketchcore.
There's no piano in the show.
