VC has finally started a pediatric clown program at Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. We’re so happy to get back to our clown roots.Our four veteran performers dove right in and we’re training up some of our newest team. Here’s a story from a recent day:
Dr. Queenie and Dr. Dot spent a lot of time in clinic waiting room with four kids all about 2-4 yrs — they loved the bubbles and possum puppet George. Then we met a lovely young man (about 17 or 18) who stopped us just as we were leaving 4th floor waiting room, to tell us he remembered us from when he was at Comer when he was younger. A really nice conversation culminating in Dr. Queenie offering to sing a song with his name in it, and Dr. Dot coming up with all sorts of interruptions — he thanked us for both the song and the laughs!
Also had great laughs with nurses on 5th floor — they thought the ukelele didn’t have strings so Dr. Dot claimed it was a mime uke and sounded much better. They laughed SO hard at a joke that was not THAT funny — they really needed to laugh!
