THEATER REVIEW: “The Second City Improv All-Stars” in UP Comedy Club at Second City If any one town can claim to have invented improv, it’s Chicago. It’s been that way since July 5, 1955, when the Compass Players opened their first show at 1152 E. 55th St. and allowed the likes of Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Valerie Harper and Alan Alda to turn what had been a collection of performance games into a spontaneous artistic medium in its own right. Things developed nicely from there.

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This town needed a show like ‘Improv All-Stars’