Backstage Pass
Jul 20, 2019
1 minute
By EDWARD McCLELLAND
In 1981, a troupe of Northwestern drama students rented a storefront on Howard Street and decorated it by dipping their naked asses in paint and pressing them against a pillar, writes Mark Larson (out August 13). Their improv revue was so popular that in 1982 they moved to Piper’s Alley, where producers from discovered them. It was the first big break for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who joined the cast along with Gary Kroeger and her future husband, Brad Hall.
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