Viola Spolin -- David Shepherd -- Paul Sills -- Roger Bowen -- Andrew Duncan -- Barbara Harris -- Mike Nichols -- Severn Darden -- Mark and Bobbi Gordon -- Shelley Berman -- Del Close -- Theodore J Flicker -- Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller -- Bernard Sahlins -- Eugene Troobnick -- Mina Kolb -- Paul Sand -- Alan Arkin -- Sheldon Patinkin -- Paul Mazursky -- Anthony Holland -- Bill Alton -- Alan Myerson -- Joan Rivers -- Avery Schreiber -- Richard Schaal and Valerie Harper -- Alan Alda -- David Steinberg -- Robert Klein -- J. J. Barry -- Gilda Radner -- Keegan-Michael Key

"Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world classgreat actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theatersThe Compass and The Second Citywhere they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don't Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live.Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers of the empire that transformed American comedy." - förläggarens hemsida