The House on National Public Radio!!!!

Holy Crap!!!  This may not be true any more, but at one point in The House's six year history I know for a fact that I was the biggest NPR Nerd among us.

I had a temp job doing data entry for a couple of years that allowed me to listen to streaming audio online all day, every day.  Over the course of that job, I listened to every single episode of "This American Life" and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!"  After all of that, I even starting digging into the archives of "Car Talk" which, considering that I don't even have a driver's license, was a bit of a stretch. 

One time Peter Sagal brought Gretchen Helfrich, host of WBEZ's short-lived and under appreciated intellectual talk-show Odyssey to see one of our shows and introduced me.  I blushed and stammered like a school boy. 

I once had a dream about Diane Rehm and an all-you-can-eat waffle-bar that  defies interpretation.  You get the picture.

So, on Saturday morning, when the National Desk's Senior Correspondent, Noah Adams, did a nationally broadcast story about The House on NPR's Weekend Edition, you can imagine my excitement, and my subsequent change of underpants.

To hear this 9 minute story about The House from America's MOST IMPORTANT RADIO STATION, CLICK HERE and then click the little blue words that say "LISTEN NOW".  Mom and Dad, prepare to weep.

Comments

[mcm]

I have been known to blush and stammer like a schoolgirl upon meeting Peter Sagal, Ira Glass, and many others... I completely understand the impulse. (My husband still claims to be jealous about the time I got a kiss on the cheek from Carl Kassel... which was AWESOME).

Anyway, heard the story while in the shower Saturday morning, and first assumed it was a local story. Then, upon waking up more, remembered that Noah Adams is not a local reporter. And got very, very excited for y'all. Congratulations!

[Justin Palmer]

yes, this is SO incredibly great. for The House. and for Chicago Theatre.
you all rep'd us well.
thanks.

[mary elizabeth ellis-day]

i am so damn proud of you guys!! way to go house theatre.
i can't wait to make it to chicago to see a performance.
congrats on your successes and good luck on many future ones!
loved hearing your story and voices on npr.