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November 24, 2020

Press Release — Get ready for the holidays with The Second City and their unique brand of improv at OCC

The Second City, There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays

TOMS RIVER, NJ — No in-person holiday party this year? Good thing There’s No Place Like Home … For the Holidays. Let the comedy elves from renowned improvisational theater troupe, The Second City, deliver the virtual holly jollies to wherever you are with this fast, festive, funny improv show that brings you into the action! At 8 p.m. on Friday, December 18, the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts, on the campus of Ocean County College, will present this seasonal show on Zoom. Don’t miss it!

· Tickets are $18.50 plus a $1.50 ticket fee. One ticket per viewing device.

· OCC students: Before you buy your ticket, check Ocean Connect for exclusive discount access. · Visit www.grunincenter.org/virtual-event-support for recommendations for casting to a TV.

three individuals from The Second City performing on stage

About The Second City

Rooted in the groundbreaking improvisational games of Viola Spolin, The Second City opened its doors on a snowy Chicago night in December 1959, and began a comedy revolution. The small cabaret theater has grown to become the most influential and prolific comedy empire in the world, developing an entirely unique way of creating art and fostering generation after generation of superstars.

Co-founded by Spolin’s son, Paul Sills, along with Howard Alk and Bernie Sahlins, The Second City was experimental and unconventional in its approach to both theater and comedy. Almost immediately, alumni of The Second City — including Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Fred Willard, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi — launched the theater into the international spotlight.

In 1976, Second City launched “SCTV,” hailed as one of the greatest sketch comedy series of all time. The two-time Emmy winner featured an all-star cast of Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty and Rick Moranis.

Today, The Second City is home to a world-class entertainment company that continues to produce premiere talent in all three of its locations — Chicago, Toronto and Hollywood — and entertain more than one million audience members a year. Steve Carell, Keegan-Michael Key, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Chris Farley, Mike Myers — The Second City’s imprint is all over film, television and beyond.

This event is co-sponsored by the Ocean County College Office of Student Life. Learn more at www.grunincenter.org.

We are Ocean and we are here for you! Don’t delay, learn more today by visiting www.ocean.edu.

Media Contact

Dori Londres
Marketing & Communications Writer/Editor
dlondres@ocean.edu
732 255 0400 x2308

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