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This facility has NO ELEVATOR. We apologize for any inconvenience. We do have ramped entrances at the front of the building to the main Orchestra seating areas. Seating for our disabled patrons in wheelchairs and their guests are limited. Please call ahead when possible.
Call us directly (815.285.1917) and leave a message if you require wheelchair assistance. Someone will return your call. You may also email us at info@dixontheatre.com
*Tickets are always available at door (unless sold out)*
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FUNDRAISER FOR ADAM DEVINE & HISTORIC DIXON THEATRE…..
www.ioimprov.com
Andy Dick is an American comedian, actor, musician and television/film producer. His first regular television role was on the short-lived but highly influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s, he had a long-running stint on NBC’s NewsRadio. He briefly had his own program, The Andy Dick Show on MTV, and he is also noted for his outlandish behavior from a number of Comedy Central Roasts.
Dick started his television comedy career as a cast member on the sketch comedy program The Ben Stiller Show, which aired on the Fox Network from September 1992 to January 1993. Prior to this, Dick starred in an advertisement for the original Sonic The Hedgehog game in 1991. In 1993, on the third night of David Letterman’s new CBS show, Dick appeared as “Donnie the CBS Page Who Likes to Suck Up”, during which he gave a watch to Letterman. The host then handed him a pencil, prompting Dick to cry and then walk backstage to much applause. In 1994, Dick played the part of Pepé the stylist in the episode “Maggie the Model” on The Nanny. He also starred as Zachary Smart, the son of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 in the Get Smart Fox television remake (a role he reportedly tried to escape in order to go into work with NewsRadio).
In 2001, Dick starred along with Kieran Culkin on the short lived NBC summer television series Go Fish. Andy Dick has been a series regular on several sitcoms for their entire duration, including NewsRadio on NBC (1995–1999), portraying Matthew Brock, and on the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect as Owen Kronsky.
In 2001, he created a show on MTV called The Andy Dick Show. The series ended in 2003 after three seasons. In 2004, he starred in a satirical reality television show, also on MTV, called The Assistant. The show spoofed themes and scenes from The Apprentice, The Bachelor, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and Survivor, among others.
Dick had also had a guest shot on Star Trek: Voyager as the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark II in the episode entitled “Message in a Bottle”
Dick competed in the eighth season of Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown. He finished in last place, behind Robin Tunney, Christopher Meloni, Macy Gray, and Joy Behar.
On May 16, 2007, Dick was roasted on The Howard Stern Show by Artie Lange, Lisa Lampanelli, Reverend Bob Levy, Sal Governale, Shuli, Colin Quinn, Benjy Bronk, Dave Atell, Greg Fitzsimmons, and Yucko the Clown.
In 2008, Dick appeared on episode #3 of The Real World: Hollywood to tell cast members that they would be taking improv classes at iO WEST.
Films Credits:
One of his earliest film roles was a fictional version of himself in video-game-to-film adaptation, Double Dragon.
In 1993, Dick played himself in the mockumentary The Making of… And God Spoke. In 1997, Dick had a supporting role alongside Luke Wilson and Jack Black in Bongwater, as Luke Wilson’s gay friend who gives him a place to stay after his house burns to the ground. In 1999, Dick played a warm-hearted yet cowardly scientist that helped Dr. Claw in the movie Inspector Gadget.
In 2000, he made a cameo role in the motion picture Dude, Where’s My Car?.That same year, he also appeared in the teenage comedy film Road Trip, playing a motel clerk. In 2001, Dick made a cameo in Ben Stiller’s comedy Zoolander as Olga the Masseuse (Dick also made a cameo in Stiller’s directorial debut, Reality Bites, back in 1994). In 2002, he was featured in the band Ash’s music video “Envy” as a taxi cab driver. In 2003, he appeared in Will Ferrell’s Old School as a gay sex education teacher, and as a villainous Santa in the movie The Hebrew Hammer. In 2005, Dick was featured in the documentary The Aristocrats. In 2006, he appeared in the film Employee of the Month as Lon, the optician who is strongly nearsighted. He also provided the voice Mombo in 2007′s Happily N’Ever After and the voice of “Boingo”, the evil rabbit starring in the 2006 family animated film, Hoodwinked.
His feature-film directing debut was the 2006 film Danny Roane: First Time Director.
In late December 2008, Dick announced on his official website that he had
finished writing a script for a film starring his alter-ego Daphne Aguilera
titled, Daphne Aguilera: Get Into It.
In 2009, Dick also made a cameo appearance as himself in the movie Funny People, where he tries to cheer up terminally ill Adam Sandler by making jokes about his oral sex.
Voiceover Work
In 1998, he lent his voice to the villain Nuka in the Disney direct-to-video animated film The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride and provided the voice of Boingo Bunny for the 2006 animated movie Hoodwinked!, as well as in the 2011 sequel, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil.
In 1999, he featured as the voice of Dilbert’s assistant in the Dilbert animated series. He also was the voice of recurring character “Monkey Man” on the Nickelodeon TV series Hey Arnold.
In 2002, Dick provided the voice of Mr. Sheepman and various other characters in the short-lived animated series Clone High.
Dick provides the voice of Maurice from the radio station WCTR’s segment “Gardening with Maurice” in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and he provided the voice of Aunt Beth in the 2006 video game Marc Eckō’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. He also was the voice of Dylan in ‘The Reef”‘.
As of October 2006, Dick has hosted his own radio program, The Shit Show, on Howard Stern’s Sirius channel Howard 101 every Thursday night at midnight eastern.
On August 19, 2009, Dick became a downloadable character in the Playstation Network’s video game PAIN.
In 2010, Dick voiced Jesus Christ in an episode of Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
Music
Dick is the lead singer of his comedy band Andy Dick and the Bitches of the Century. They have appeared together on television, and released a self-titled album in 2002.
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE iO THEATER www.ioimprov.com
Charna Halpern has been teaching performers how to work together for more than 25 years. Having founded the world famous iO in Chicago and Hollywood, Halpern’s theaters are the meccas of training in the art of improvisation and act as a recruiting stop for television shows like Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and MADtv, supplying Hollywood with writers and performers. She is the author of the improv training manuals Truth in Comedy and Art By Committee.
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An Irish Family “Fleadh”
(A Festival of Music, Dance and Culture….)
Featuring The Matt Stedman Band
March 10, 7pm
TICKETS: Adults $10, Kids $4, Seniors $4
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*Tickets also available at Dixon Main Street office