Curious George Goes to War, Second City E.T.C. Call it “The Return of the First Amendment.” Continuing the screw-the-tourists dynamic that fuels Second City’s main-stage Thank Heaven It Wasn’t 7/11, this 24th E.T.C. revue abandons hip irony for a slaughter of sacred cows. Refusing to dumb down cultural references to talk-show levels, director Ron West and his crack ensemble reward knowledge of the news. Targets are hit that wouldn’t have shown up on the Second City radar a year ago: the uglification of Soldier Field, Wrigleyville blacks who erase the south side from their memory banks, a suicide-bomber coach who teaches the doom squad to ape Americans by massacring English, a self-appointed king of the road who fights terrorists by driving his gas guzzler up the Amoco building, FBI agents whose enemies change by the minute.
