The Best of The Variety Show: A Drinking Game Performance DRINK! The Drinking Game Sketch Show

Variety Show at its Very Best

Posted on May 30, 2013 by randerson
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Variety Show is over, nobody here is sober.  If all good things must end, then we’re gonna go out with a bang!  Corn Productions is putting up a revue of all of our favorite sketches from the past four years of Variety Show in The Best of The Variety Show – A Drinking Game Performance.  Each show is so packed full of crowd pleasing favorites, we’re not sure you’re going to be able to fit any drinking in between laughs.  Blending Corn’s signature sketch comedy, old-school variety show acts (magicians! dancing girls! an honest to god, straight from the side-show fire-eater!) and a drinking game worthy of your college days, The Best of The Variety Show is a good-to-the-last-drop BYOB delight. Not sure you can keep track of the rules while simultaneously drinking and laughing? Have no fear; our illuminating “drink” sign will guide you on your comedic journey. So viva variety! And see ya sobriety!

The Best of The Variety Show – A Drinking Game Performance opens Saturday, June 1st and runs every Saturday at 11pm through August 17th. Tickets are $10, group discounts are available.

Let’s get to the moment you’ve all been waiting to see…

Posted on May 5, 2013 by randerson
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Yes it has been awhile but Corn Productions hit improv-aganza, THE ORIGINAL IMPROV GLADIATORS – SEASON NINETEEN is back! Teams from all over Chicago-land to compete against each other and the revered home team, “The Improv Gladiators” to win the coveted prize of a 4 week run at Cornservatory. Eight teams, five weeks, three judges, and only one winner…the stakes are high, and the jokes are low brow. But—no matter how you slice it—this cross between American Gladiators, American Idol, and Who’s Line is it Anyway is an exciting and entertaining night of competition, chaos, and comedy.

Corn Productions hosts this improvisational mêlée, offering up their own Artistic Director to emcee the festivities. In round one, teams perform 8 minutes of long-form improv. They are then are evaluated and scored by judges from theater and improv companies all over Chicago including iO, ARFTCo, and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy as well as special celebrity guest judges. Audience response will also count for a percentage of scoring. In round two, teams will clash with the house pros—The Improv Gladiators—who will dive into the fray with a furious frenzy of improv skills to block the teams from scoring points in your favorite short-form games such as Party Quirks and Story Story Die. Points are accumulated throughout the 4 weeks culminating in a Semi-final round on June 14th and on June 15th the Grand Finale in which with the two top scorers from each night collide in an epic battle. In the end, to the victor goes a free four-week run at Cornservatory.

The stakes are high, the jokes are low-brow, and—when the smoke clears—only one team will be left standing. And—as always—Corn is BYOB. So, holster your beverage of choice and come witness the mayhem at Cornservatory forTHE ORIGINAL IMPROV GLADIATORS – SEASON NINETEEN every Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm from May 10th through June 15th at Cornservatory, 4210 N Lincoln. Ticket price is $15 and may be purchased below or for reservations call 773-650-1331. For more info about joining the race, call 773-407-5186 or emailcornproductions@sbcglobal.net

Aare you aantsy?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by randerson
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Aabigail Aardvark is not at all like the other normal aardvarks of her village. She doesn’t do a good job of cleaning up her messy den like hernormal parents do. She won’t hike and dig with the rest of her normal aardvark society. And she refuses to eat another ant until she can try something different… like Brussels sprouts! Aabbi is quite possibly the most unnormal aardvark of them all. In fact, you might say she’s a little… aantsy. Lucky for Aabbi, she’s not the only aardvark aantsy for aadventure. Together, with her grandmother, Grambo, Aabbi sets off on a fun-filled quest for Brussels sprouts. With a little help from the town swindler, Merchandise Marty, and a band of scurvy pirates, Aabbi and Grambo set sail on the high seas for an incredible journey that only the aantsiest could imagine! Nothing could possibly stop them! Nothing, that is, except the socially sequestered and pitifully pungent Six-Eyed Scumbucket!!
Join Aabbi and Grambo on this fun-filled and fiber-rich musical adventure for the whole family! Written by Michael Brooks and Patrick Brooks, and first performed at Corn in 2005, The Aantsy Aardvark is sure to bring out the aantsiness in all of us!
The Aantsy Aardvark opens April 6th and runs Saturdays and Sundays at 11am through
May 12th at Cornservatory, 4210 N Lincoln Ave. Ticket price is $5 for Children 12 and under and $10 for Adults. Group rates available! Call 773-650-1331 for reservations or purchase tickets here:

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