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Friday, February 12, 2010

Onstage / Visual Art / Performing Arts / Arts Second City Caricaturist Is Dead

Posted by Albert Williams on 02.12.10 at 02:48 PM

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  • Second City
Bill Utterback, Second City's very own Al Hirschfeld, died Monday, February 8, after a long illness. A gifted cartoonist, Utterback created the amusing caricatures of Second City cast members that adorn the comedy theater's lobby bar. In a sense, his "sketch comedy" warmed audience members up for the sketch comedy they were waiting to see. Born in 1931, he also contributed artwork to Playboy and other publications. He is survived by his wife Betty. According to Second City vice president Kelly Leonard, Utterback's last work—still incomplete but "very close to being finished," Leonard says—was a portrait of the cast of the company's current Second City ETC revue Studs Terkel's Not Working.

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a sad day. between my time spent in the box office and reception at second city, i spent countless hours looking at mr. utterbacks work. what a quiet and constant part of the theater's look and history. it is good to know his artwork will stand as long as the building does.

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