Santa’s Great American Depression Holiday Show! America.

The holidays are coming, and with that, The Gift Theatre Company launches GiftLateNight, alternative programming dedicated to revue, sketch comedy, improvisation, and music at The Gift!

 

Our inaugural production will be

 

 

A collection of sketch comedy and improvisation from Second City and iO actors, “Santa’s Great American Depression Holiday Show! America.” is a hilarious hour where the holidays bring out the worst (and best) in a wide array of characters, where Batman comes to terms with economics, a bomb is loose in an American city, Santa gets no rest, and Thomas Jefferson rediscovers what it means to be an American. For mature audiences only.

 

WHAT:           “Santa’s Great American Depression Holiday Show! America.” Sketch comedy and improv at The Gift.

 

WHEN:           Previews October 30, 2008 – November 15th @  10:30pm

                        Thursday, Fridays, and Saturdays.

 

Opens November 20^th: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays @ 8pm until December 13^th.

 

WHERE:         The Gift Theatre

                        4802 N. Milwaukee

                        Chicago, IL 60630

 

TICKETS:       $5 previews, $10 regular run. 

(773) 283-7071 or BUY ONLINE @ www.thegifttheatre.org

 

Cast & Crew: Dan Aho, Alysson Brown, Ed Flynn, Kirby O’Connell, Carly Olsen, John Pantlind, and Kyle Zornes.

 

Lighting design is by Scott Pillsbury,

Sound Design by Jeff Award Nominee Miles Polaski.