Performing Arts
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Reprieved 'Nunsense' hasn't lost its touchMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Beginning last fall with a smartly reimagined regional premiere of "The Producers," and continuing with a triumphant revival of "Les Miserables" earlier this year, big s...
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'Musical' skewers theater's enduring showsMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - You don't have to be a theater cognoscenti to appreciate the jokes writers Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart liberally sprinkle throughout their oddly titled but affection...
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DeYoung's 'Hunchback' sticks here and thereMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Aristotle posited that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. In the case of Dennis DeYoung's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," it's a bit less. DeYoung's musical ada...
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'Avenue Q' echoes a familiar addressMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I arrived at "Avenue Q" a skeptic and left a convert. The wildly successful puppet musical, conceived by composer/lyricists Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, had gimmick writt...
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Griffin gives teen angst the cool treatmentMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - "I am so not cool." A lanky teenager utters the altogether subjective (and universally shared) self-condemnation at the beginning of Griffin Theatre's humorous and hear...
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Actress tunes into 'Musical'May 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Singer/actress Katie Siri has performed in a lot of musicals in her career and most of them are parodied in the hit off-Broadway musical, "The Musical of Musicals: The M...
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Theater newsMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Kids Company Theatre for Children opened its musical version of "Alice in Wonderland" this week at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago. The o...
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'Wicked' headed over rainbowMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The Chicago company of "Wicked" -- a production that defied expectations to become the top-grossing and longest-running musical in Chicago history -- concludes its run a...
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Theater newsMay 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/songwr...
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'Zorro' making its markMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - The hint of camp that hangs over Lifeline Theatre's "The Mark of Zorro" puts a smile on your face without putting you off. Were it played any broader or directed with a ...