Compass Players

Compass Players

The Compass Players (or Compass Theater) was a 1950s cabaret revue show started by alumni, dropouts and hangers-on from the University of Chicago. The troupe was active from 1955-1958 in Chicago and St. Louis. Several of the members went on to form The Second City Theater in 1959.

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    “loosely bound
    By countless silken ties of love and thought
    To everything on earth the compass round,”
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