Written by Jason Fox Berger

The women of CatNip! devouring a male colleague

For many years the comedy troupe CatNip! has been a “No Boys Allowed” club; An all-female group known as much for its exclusivity as for its hilarious improvised antics. But Friday night, at Theatre 99, the thick walls of segregation that have long surrounded this clan came tumbling down.

Wielding the sledgehammers of equality were Frank Caeti, one half of the improv duo Frankenmatt, and Joe Canele, of Chicago’s Second City. These modern day Rosa Parks’ heroically went where no men had gone before: Onstage with CatNip!, sharing the spotlight with these very funny women and adding a large dose of X chromosomes to what had previously been a Y’s-only affair.

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