April 15, 2013 – (Above) Television legend Ed Asner (second from right) shares a private joke with Danny Salles, director of a hopeful sitcom that was taped this weekend at River North’s Museum of Broadcast Communications. Asner starred with fellow legend Marion Ross (far left) in I’ve Got A Life in Kalamazoo, a teleplay that was read for an audience of about 300 people on Saturday evening and about 200 people on Sunday afternoon.

The show is about a professional singer who is trying to move her career from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Chicago. Teresa Thome, who narrated the performance at MBC, based it on her one-woman show. Cast members include Vicki Lewis, who played Beth on the NBC show News Radio, Broadway actor Gregory Jbara, who currently plays Garrett Moore on the CBS police drama Blue Bloods, and Patrick W. Ziegler.

The tape will now be edited and pitched to television networks as a prospective situation comedy.

(Below) Cast members take questions from the audience following a performance on Sunday. Left to right: Thome, Lewis, Ross, Jbara, Ziegler, Asner, and Salles. (Click on images to view larger versions.)

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