Kelly Leonard
Kelly Leonard
center city college coming denver equity marketing name people promoting red scare second talking theater works
When we were talking to them about the marketing, I said traditional theater marketing never works for us. We need college students, we need young people who wouldn't necessarily go to Denver Center. We get a lot of people at Second City who don't know they're coming to an Actors' Equity theater. A lot of marketing we're doing is promoting Red Scare without the Second City name or the Denver Center name.
create habit trying
We're trying to create a habit of movement.
couple knowing market papers trying understand wrong
I've done this wrong a couple times, not knowing the market I went into. We have been scouring the papers and trying to understand where it is that we're going.
city front great second
The great thing about Second City is we do write the show in front of the audience.
classes exam language men white
The breast exam never would have made it (in the past), or it would have been the one 'chick scene' in the show. That was the language that would have been used. There's always more men who take classes than women, so there's more white men getting into this business.
city coming denver folks looking pictures point second starts view
The folks in Denver just get it, from the point of view that Second City starts with coming in and looking at the (historical pictures of old Second City casts) on the wall.
bit certainly material respects sharper
I think everything has been politicized, so certainly the material now I think is a bit sharper and in some respects edgier than what was going on pre-9/11.
creating drinking learn people showing work
A lot of times when people learn this improvisation stuff, they're drinking the Kool-Aid, and you're creating zealots for your work by showing them how to do it.
fun second time truly
For the audience, that's the most fun time to come to Second City, because truly anything will happen.
detroit
But there's also differences between Detroit and Chicago.
bulk fair lie people wrote
There's nothing in the show that I don't think is necessarily balanced. It'd be a lie to say that the bulk of the people who wrote it were not of the left, or left-leaning, (but) we try to be as fair as possible.
brave bring choices house
It's one of those choices where, yeah, it's a brave choice, but it could really bring the house down.