Spotlight: Angela Ingersoll channels Judy Garland in Marriott cabaret performance
Get happy
Joseph Jefferson Award-winner Angela Ingersoll, an Emmy Award nominee for her 2018 PBS special, brings her tribute to Hollywood legend Judy Garland to the Marriott Theatre this weekend as part of its Artists Lounge Live series. "Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland" grew out of Ingersoll's acclaimed turn as Garland in "End of the Rainbow" (Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Louis) and features such standards as "Over the Rainbow," "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "The Man That Got Away" among others.
8 p.m. Saturday June 8, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire. $50. (847) 634-0200 or artistsloungelive.com.
'Scoundrels' revived
A couple of con men working the French Riviera - sophisticated swindler Lawrence and his less elegant, less successful counterpart Freddy - make a deal that the first one to swindle a woman out of $50,000 gets to stay while the other has to leave in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," the 2004 musical by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek. BrightSide Theatre's revival marks the continuation of the company's dreamers and schemers season. Artistic director Jeffrey Cass helms the production, which stars Jon Cunningham and Dennis Schnell.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 9, and through June 23 at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall, North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville. $25, $30. (630) 447-8497 or brightsidetheatre.com.
Chicago premiere
A Jewish studies professor clashes with his sisters over his work, the care of their ailing father, family secrets and long-held resentments when they reunite to celebrate their dad's 75th birthday in "If I Forget." Devon de Mayo directs Victory Gardens Theater's Chicago-area premiere of the family drama by "Dear Evan Hansen" writer Steven Levenson.
Previews at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 7; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8; and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 9, through June 13 at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. The show opens June 14. $20-$60. (773) 871-3000 or victorygardens.org.
Big business
Plucky J. Pierrepont Finch climbs the corporate ladder from the window ledge where he starts out as a window washer to his ultimate perch in the corner office in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Music Theater Works' revival of Frank Loesser's bouncy 1961 musical stars Ken Singleton as the consummate company man.
8 p.m. Saturday, June 8, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9, and through June 16 at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., Evanston. $34-$96. (847) 920-5360 or musictheaterworks.com.