Press
“(A) must-see in Chicago’s theater scene.” — New Times Los Angeles
“Two hours of hilarious antics … on par with Second City.” — The Boston Globe
“Charna Halpern is the Uta Hagen of comedy.” — Variety
Acclaim for i.O. Chicago’s Resident Company, Baby Wants Candy
“A quick-witted troupe that’s become the darling of i.O.” “One of (Chicago)’s most consistently funny and crowd-pleasing (improv) teams.” “Inspired scenes…hilarious yet heart-felt numbers.” “Every improv team sings when inspiration strikes, but Baby Wants Candy makes the option into an obligation, turning every performance into a tuneful, spontaneously choreographed revue.” — Darel Jevens, Chicago Sun-Times
“The audience was treated to (an improv) group who really shone: Baby Wants Candy, a tight musical group that brought down the house. [Baby Wants Candy] was professional and very funny (and) surely picked up some new fans. The exposure [at the Chicago Improv Festival] will surely drive audiences to seek out the i.O. Cabaret to see them again.” — Tamara Federici, Performink “Critics Choice”
“A magic informs Baby Wants Candy.” “Baby’s nine bright, energetic, seasoned performers don’t sing out of desperation but because that’s what they do – create fully improvised one-act musicals. Singing is their raison d’etre, and they do it well.” “The cast supports one another fully in everything, validating James Joyce’s remark that genius makes no mistakes – errors are the portals of discovery.” — Chicago Reader
“Fun is key in Baby Wants Candy’s shows.” “For an hour, the audience is invited into the world of a traveling freak show, a state fair, a dysfunctional family, a tough high school or whatever world the performers create. Because the show is entirely improvised, there is no planning, no pre-set structure.” — Chicago Citysearch
“Highly entertaining, inventive and even dramatically intense … its members are funny, creative, intelligent and disciplined, never competing, but working as a team to support each other’s ideas.” — The List: Glasgow and Edinburgh Events Guide Magazine
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