For the past two and a half years, The Inconvenience Headquarters has introduced some of the best new music, theatre and dance to the city of Chicago. 
This upcoming October will be the last month in the current space of 3036 North Lincoln! 
SO—to celebrate—The Inconvenience is putting together a large scale, two-night spectacular called: “OUR HOUSE”.

October 15th and 16th, 10:30pm @ The Inconvenience Headquaters. 

The event will be hosted by IKE HOLTER and MARY WILLIAMSON.

These wonderful acts will be spread out between two nights; both shows will run 90 minutes. 

EMAIL yourinconvenience@gmail.com FOR RESERVATIONS!
This will SELL OUT FAST! 
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DANCE
Erin Kilmurray
Kasey Foster

SPOKEN WORD
Shannon Matesky
Mikey Palmer
Brian Rad
Rafvs Franco-Steeves
Hanah Michaleson and Anna Rose

COMEDY
Puterbaugh Sisters
Chris Froseth

CLOWNING
Sarah Fornace and Alex Knapp
Max Fabian
Colin Crevling
Anya Clingman
Missi Davis and Eric Robinson

PUPPETRY
Sam Deustch
Taylor Bibat 

MUSIC:
Rachel Eve
John Cicora and Miranda Rae
Ryan Murphy and OL’ BOY
Brandon Thompson
Amanda Powell
Chance Bone
Gabe Ruiz
Nic Demaris

THEATRE
Josh Altman
Ike Holter
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PRE-SHOW
8:30PM. 15 bucks. Unlimited drinks, free food, roaming performances, art exhibit. 

SHOW
10:30 PM. 5 bucks. Cash bar. 

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This is not the end! The Inconvenience will return with its first fully produced professional season, using several different venues in the Chicagoland area. Audiences at OUR HOUSE will get a first look at what the future brings…..
If you’ve ever seen a show, rocked out at a concert, had your jaw dropped by dancers, or been dazzled by the spectacle—we’d love to have you back.
If you’ve missed out, then we invite you to finally take a look at the end of The Inconvenience Headquarters. 
Come both nights. Trust us—it WILL be worth your weekend.

And so it goes.  

With our last big show for the season (The Fly Honey Show, R.I.P) finished—we met this past weekend and discussed the further directions of The Inconvenience as an entity.    

The most difficult aspect of this is going to be helping our audience understand that The Inconvenience Headquarters is simply that; a headquarters.

With CHICAGOLAND and STRAPPED, we hopefully have taken the first steps in showing that we are bigger then the space.  

So, we’re figuring out how to spend the next month and a half in the space.  Our lease runs up on the 1st of November, but, before that, we’re trying to assemble a proper goodbye.  

We’ll have a formal announcement within the next week, but until then—stay tuned!

This past weekend, THE FLY HONEY show went off without a hitch at The Inconvenience headquaters.

For an hour and a half, 20 women sang, danced, played music and scored laughs as we attempted to reinvent burlesque for 2010.  

The night began with Myself (Ike Holter), joined by Mary Williamson in a big song and dance number that introduced the world of burlesque.  

From there, we went into a furious version of Kander and Ebb’s “Mein Herr”, followed by a stripped down (literally) acoustic and violin arrangement of Cy Coleman’s “Hey Big Spender.”

Above is Rachel Eve, who preformed not only “Big Spender”, but also Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the wind”, which was, of course, immortalized in “Forrest Gump”.  

We had over 300 people(!) crammed into the theater, some standing, some squashed against windowpanes and radiators.  

All were very respectful, but also embraced the bawdy atmosphere of the  evening. 

While talking to one of the performer’s (very very very supportive) Mother, I realized what a crazy undertaking this entire night was.  

Yes, there was a little bit of nudity, but, more importantly, we brought over 20 proud, fierce and beautiful woman on a stage that is perpetually filled with men.  These women might have been scantily clad, but the power behind their voices, their instruments and their dances would have been just as relevant wearing a floor-length ball-gown or two pasties and a smile.  

What’s the Fly Honey Show?

Check it out. 

Burlesque:  Done right.  

Instead of getting drunk women on stage in some co-ed dorm—shaking their ass,flashing their sass—

The Open Space Project and The Inconvenience are getting trained dancers.

Wonderful singers.

And two rocking hosts to tear through an hour of Burlesque reinvention.  

Think of it as a mishmash of showmanship.

Erin Kilmurray—the mastermind behind the hot dace moves of CHICAGOLAND—assembled over 20 women, gave them intense choreography, and instilled in them the power and presence of Amazon Warriors.  

As a gay man walking through my living room this does nothing for me, but as a human being with a pulse this does EVERYTHING.  

The night’s being hosted by yours truly, and co-hosted by Mary Williamson.  

We’re putting together the numbers and bits as we speak, trying to staple this towering mass together. 

Below is a still from the trailer for THE FLY HONEY SHOW, filmed by Incon regular David Gerber.

Wanna see more?  Come on over August 28th!  9:30pm!   

Tonight, we resurrect CHICAGOLAND and STRAPPED @ the 22nd annual Abbie Hoffman Theatre Festival.  

For those poor souls who don’t know, ABBIEFEST is a 72 hour slam-bang theater fest where the who’s-who-of-the-hottest-of-the-hot rubs elbows with the hottest-of-the-not.

We are in the latter.

BUT, we are going to bring the house down.  

We are presenting STRAPPED—

The 17 minute one woman show by Caitlin Parrish, directed by Emily Ruesswig and staring Missi Davis—at 11:55.

Then, at 12:12, CHICAGOLAND will begin—a stripped down version of the mutli-racial-sing-song-hip-hopping musical that we preformed at The Chopin.

This is not our first time @ Abbiefest. 

We made our debut there with LOCOMOTIVE SHARK in ‘08, then again with CHILDREN OF BOYZTOWN in ‘09 (pictures to come!)

With only a few rehearsals, it’s been great putting CHICAGOLAND together.

We have a few new additions (Amanda Miller as MOLLY, tearing up a storm; as well as William Gillespi being upgraded from MIGHTY ENSEMBLE into CHUCK)—but it’s the same CHICAGOLAND.

The only thing that’s changed is the energy, attitude, and intelligence of the performers.  There’s a sharper, darker edge to it, and I can’t wait for the audience to see it.  

STRAPPED, as we saw in the Filet of Solo Festival @ Lifeline Theater, is still hot to trot, and you can bet Missi will crack that whip WAY to close to the audiences faces.  

ABBIEFEST is actually the perfect enviorment for STRAPPED.

We need a place where a drunk dude stumbling around during a show won’t look completely out of place.