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The Globe Gazette proudly presents The Second City Touring Company on their 50th Anniversary Tour at the North Iowa Community Auditorium on Friday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the 2009-2010 NIACC Performing Arts and Leadership Series. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. This show is not advised for children.

Funny and fast-paced, The Second City is ideal entertainment for audiences both new and old. The Second City is always topical, highly interactive and sure to have audiences rolling in the aisles. Like a cross between wisecracking super delegates and an alcoholic uncle, The Second City touring companies travel the country bringing irreverent humor to the masses.

The Second City Touring Company is a mind explosion of political and social satire cropping up in every nook and cranny of the United States and beyond. Armed from Chicago with a battery of the most hilarious sketch comedy and improvisation ever seen, they are coming to NIACC to playfully mock the millennial generation and beyond. 

Since 1959, The Second City has established itself as a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. While the tour company is busy cracking up the US and Canada, the theatre that launched the careers of so many comic greats offers nightly comedy shows, as well as a variety of other programs and services, including the Touring Company, theatre and improvisational classes and a corporate services division which plays at business functions.

Performing a special medley of scenes, songs and improvisation, The Second City Touring Company is always original, daring and hilarious. Their alumni list is a veritable "Who's Who" of comedy, including Chris Farley, Tina Fey, Mike Myers, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, Jim and John Belushi, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George Wendt, Alan Arkin, Peter Boyle, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, John Candy, Tim Meadows, Jason Sudeikis, Horatio Sanz, Jeremy Piven, Amy Sedaris, Rachel Dratch, Martin Short, Ryan Stiles, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Joan Rivers, Dan Ackroyd and so many more. The Second City Touring Company has been bringing laughter and joy to packed houses all over North America for 50 years. 

“Second City is the Mecca of comedy and we’re its emissaries,” declares The Second City’s touring website. For more information, visit http://www.sctourco.com/. 

For tickets to see The Second City Touring Company, call the NIACC Box Office at 1-888-466-4222 ext. 4188. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.niacc.edu. Platinum Sponsors for the 2009-2010 series include NIACC; Globe Gazette Elizabeth Muse Norris Charitable Fund; the Globe Gazette; Alliant Energy; Henkel Construction; Kraft; Mason City Clinic; Principal Financial Group; and Soener Foundation. Gold sponsors include Community National Bank; Diamond Joe Casino; First Citizens National Bank; First State Bank of Belmond; Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa; Martin, Cooney, MacNider & Cooney Financial Consultants of Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Sukup Manufacturing; and Dr. Gary W. Swenson and Dean A. Genth. In kind sponsors include Country Inn and Suites; and KIMT.

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