| SECOND CITY-ITIS, PART TWO!
by Jason Loewith on 11/06/2007 03:02:00 PM
Did you see the "Theater 101" article in last Friday's Tribune? If you ever wanted to see an example of Second City-itis at its most virulent and ridiculous, read Beth Franken's intro, right on the front page of the On the Town section:
You lucky such-and-so. You just happen to live in the most exciting theater town in the nation. They even know this in the Big Apple, which is why the New York papers write about Chicago theater in such a patronizing but secretly envious way: They're threatened by us!
I could not have been more embarrassed. Are we so threatened by New York that our major daily needs to squawk it to the universe? Can't we just be proud of our wonderful theater community and leave it at that? Must we compare ourselves to New York at every opportunity? And if we must compare ourselves, let's not look like simpletons while we're doing it. If the New York papers write about Chicago theater in a patronizing way (which I'm not sure I agree with at all), it's because of moronic leads like this one.Labels: Chicago Tribune, New York, Second City-itis
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