ARCHIVES: CIF 7
Ten Days of Funny
The 7th annual Chicago Improv Festival
April 30-May 9, 2004
Performance Schedule
(Note: Headliners are bolded)
CIF 2004 MainStage
Friday, April 30 @ 8pm
Boom Chicago [Amsterdam]
The Annoyance Theater [Chicago]
ComedySportz [Chicago]
Saturday, May 1 @ 8pm
Boom Chicago [Amsterdam]
Noble Fool Theatre [Chicago]
Improv Olympic's Road Show [Chicago]
Thursday, May 6 @ 8pm
MAD-TV Improv Jam (featuring the full MAD-TV cast) [Los Angeles]
MAD-TV's Barinholtz & Meyers [Los Angeles]
MAD-TV's Writers On Hiatus [Los Angeles]
Friday, May 7 @ 8pm
The Groundlings (with Laraine Newman) [Los Angeles] (Gilda's Club Benefit)
Improv Olympic's Baby Wants Candy [Chicago]
The Improv Bandits [Auckland]
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm
Totally Looped (with Dan Castellaneta) [Los Angeles]
Neutrino [New York]
Saturday, May 8 @ 8pm
The Second City Almanac Writers All-Stars [Chicago, LA, NY & Toronto]
The Williamson Playboys [Toronto]
The Second City Detroit 10th Anniversary Alumni [Detroit]
Saturday, May 8 @ 10pm
HBO's Jeff Garlin's Combo Platter [Los Angeles]
ABC's Larry Joe Cambell [Los Angeles]
Sunday, May 9 @ 8pm
Bassprov with special guest Barbra Harris & Mina Kolb [Chicago & LA]
The Defiant Thomas Brothers [Chicago]
Improv Olympic's Carl & The Passions [Chicago]
CIF Showcase @ Theatre Building Chicago
Tuesday, May 4 @ 8pm, $10
Wizard Finger [Los Angeles]
Wednesday, May 5 @ 8pm, $10
The New and Improv-ed Stand-Up Show [Los Angeles]
Thursday, May 6 @ 8pm, $15
WNEP Theater's Defending Your Life [Chicago]
Oddacity [Hamilton]
Koko [Chicago]
Five Man Job [Minneapolis]
Thursday, May 6 @ 10:30pm, $10
Hothouse STC's Mayfly [Los Angeles]
Friday, May 7 @ 8pm, $15
Whirled New Tonight [Chicago]
ImprovBoston's Agent Spy [Boston]
Inside Vladimir [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm, $15
Uncle Elaine [Chicago]
Tonto's Nephews [Toronto]
Fatty Four Eyes [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ Midnight, $10
Johnny Lunchpail [New York]
pH Productions [Chicago]
Saturday, May 8 @ 8pm, $15
The Groundlings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show [Los Angeles]
Bevy [Chicago]
Washington Improv Theater [Washington, DC]
Saturday, May 8 @ 10pm
Chairs [Chicago]
How We First Met [San Francisco]
Calibre Gros [Toronto]
Saturday, May 8 @ Midnight
DSI's The Beatbox [Chicago]
Hothouse STC's Slew [Los Angeles]
CIF Sketch @ Loop Theatre
Friday, May 7 @ 8pm
Schadenfreude [Chicago]
The Royal We [New York]
The Traveling Susans [Denver]
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm
Brick [Chicago]
3 People @ The Cinema [Auckland]
Home Groan [New York]
Saturday, May 8 @ 8pm
Barrio Speedwagon [Los Angeles]
The Imponderables [Toronto]
Triplette [Chicago]
Saturday, May 8 @ 10pm
Troop! [Los Angeles]
Two For Flinching [Toronto]
Whoopsa Daisy [Chicago]
CIF Duo@ The Playground
Thursday, May 6 @ 8pm
One Person's Trash [Chicago]
Hans & Robyn [Chicago]
Ferrari McSpeedy [Minneapolis]
Thursday, May 6 @ 10pm
Andy Eninger & Adrianne Frost [Chicago & New York]
Goga [New York]
D.I.R.T. [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ 8pm
The Mike & Duane Show [Chicago]
Storytellers Improv Co. [Vancouver]
JoKyR and Jesster [Salt Lake City]
Saturday, May 8 @ 8pm
Hooray For Mark & Ari [New York]
Improisa [Seattle]
Lloyd Dobbler's Boombox [Los Angeles]
CIFSolo@ Bailiwick Arts Cente's Loft Space
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm*
Karen Weinberg [Chicago]
Sapna Kumar [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ 11pm*
Brian Gallivan [Chicago]
Jamie Black [Chicago]
Saturday, May 8 @ 10pm
Stacey Hallal [Portland]
Phil Incorvia [Portland]
Saturday, May 8 @ 11pm
Butch Jerinic [Chicago]
Sandra Battaglini [Toronto]
Saturday, May 8 @ Midnight
The Daily Show's Bob Wiltfong [New York]
Jill Bernard [Minneapolis]
(*Performances part of CIF's Gay/Lesbian/Transgender Night)
CIF Fringe@ The Playground
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm
Hothouse STC' ZHX [Los Angeles]
Storybox [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ Midnight
The Southpaw Sam McClowski Show [Los Angeles]
Saturday, May 8 @ 10pm
Imp [New York]
The Corduroy Rogers' Boxprov [Minneapolis]
Inside Joke [New York]
Saturday, May 8 @ Midnight
The Southpaw Sam McClowski Show [Los Angeles]
CIF Special Events Cabaret@ Bailiwick Arts Center's Studio Theatre
Friday, May 7 @ 10pm*
The Oops Guys [Orlando]
WIT's Shame [Washington DC]
(*Performances part of CIF's Gay/Lesbian/Transgender Night)
Family Day @ Chicago Cultural Center's Claudia Cassidy Theatre
Sunday, May 2, 12pm-5pm
12:00pm
Piven Theatre's Young People's Company [Evanston]
Tireswing Theatre [Chicago]
1:00pm
Barrel of Monkeys [Chicago]
ANnex Productions [Chicago]
2:00pm
The Classic Players [Chicago]
Second City Teen [Chicago]
3:00pm
Richards High School's The Laughing Aardvarks [Oak Lawn]
The Playground's Recess [Chicago]
4:00pm
Underage Sugar Addicts [Chicago]
ComedySportz Family [Chicago]
CIF Improv All Night @ ComedySportz
Saturday, May 8 @ 10:30pm-6am
Hosts: ComedySportz' The Improv Open Mikes [Chicago]
American Dream [Chicago]
ComedySportz' The Hot Karl [Chicago]
Extreme Improv [Charlotte]
Jazz Hands Across America [Chicago]
Improv Olympic's Johnny Roast Beef [Chicago]
Pimprov [Chicago]
Puny Humans [Cheyenne]
Obsessed [Chicago]
CIF Weekend Workshop Students
CIF Lifetime Achievement Awards@ Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Street Cafe
Wednesday, May 5 @ 7pm
This year's Lifetime Achievement Award winners include MADtv Executive Producer Dick Blasucci, The Players Workshops Founder Josephine Raciti Forsberg, original Second City cast member Mina Kolb, Piven Theatre Workshop co-founder Joyce Piven, and Second City actor/teacher the belated Don DePollo.
Lunch Break Performances @ Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Street Cafe
Monday, May 3 @ 12:15pm
Noble Fool Theatre Company [Chicago]
Tuesday, May 4 @ 12:15pm
The Improv Bandits [Auckland]
Wednesday, May 5 @ 12:15pm
DSI Productions [Chicago]
Thursday, May 6 @ 12:15pm
ComedySportz [Chicago]
Friday, May 7 @ 12:15pm
The Williamson Playboys [Toronto]
CIF One World On one Stage @ Chicago Cultural Center's Claudia Cassidy Theatre
Tuesday, May 4 @ 7pm
A multimedia performance featuring NPR's Ken Nordine, a live jazz quartet, and improvisers from America, Canada, England, France, Ireland, New Zealand and Norway.
CIF Short Film/Video Night @ Chicago Cultural Center's Claudia Cassidy Theatre
Monday, May 3 @ 7pm-9pm
7pm
Short films/videos from Chicago, LA, New York & Toronto
8pm
FuzzyCo's Neutrino Project [Chicago]
CIF Super Cage Match Championship@ Improv Olympic
Tuesday, May 4 @ 7pm-10pm
This Year's Challengers:
UCBT's Dillenger [New York]
Weaselicious[Chicago]
Mission Improvable [Chicago/Los Angeles]
Toronto Cage Match Champs [Toronto]
The Reigning Champs: DSI's Dual Exhaust [Chicago]
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