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Posted May 15, 2008 11:00 pm

Before the music died

Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook examines the life of one of rock 'n' roll's seminal figures in "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story," about the singer/songwriter who died in a 1959 plane crash after rocketing to stardom on such pop classics "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day" among others.

Previews begin Thursday at 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace. The musical opens May 29. (630) 530-0111 or www.drurylaneoakbrook.com.

Advice lady

Tony Award winner (and former Northlight Theatre resident artist) Judith Ivey stars as famed advice columnist Ann Landers in David Rambo's one-woman show, "The Lady with All the Answers," about a woman who counseled others through heartbreak and then confronted it herself.

Previews begin May 27 at Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. The play opens May 30. (847) 673-6300 or www.northlight.org.

'Q' -ed in

The long-awaited tour of the Broadway hit "Avenue Q," an adult show about 20-somethings chasing love and stardom in NYC, whose cast consists of puppets and people, comes to Chicago's Cadillac Palace for a brief run beginning next week.

Opens Wednesday at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St., Chicago. (312) 902-1400 or www.broadwayinchicago.com.

-- Barbara Vitello

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