Performing Arts
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Sly script, comic cast crack two-man 'Mystery'Sep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The best way to experience "The Mystery of Irma Vep" is to sit back, enjoy the ride and not ponder too deeply the outrageous plot, excessive exposition and narrative det...
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'Seussical' staged at Schaumburg HighSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The Schaumburg High School Music Department presents the musical "Seussical" Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 14-16 at the school, 1100 W. Schaumburg Road. Curtain is 7 p.m. each...
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Metropolis has a winner in delightful 'Spelling Bee'Sep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Let me begin by saying I like "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" a lot. I like the audacious premise: A group of kids, all played by adults, compete at a spell...
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'Pandemonium' tour at Bank of America Theatre canceledSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The tour of "Pandemonium" scheduled to be at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago Oct. 12 through 17 has been canceled. Broadway in Chicago is contacting patrons re...
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On Stage: Don't bring the kids to this vampire showSep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Vamping it up Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights debuts its latest satire, "After Dusk But Before Daylight: A Parody of a Very Famous Vampire ...
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Charming new Northlight musical has 'Legs'Sep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The first thing one notices about David Farley's canny "Daddy Long Legs" set are the books filling the floor-to-ceiling shelves. The steamer trunks are the second. The ...
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Director vaults more Voltaire into new adaptation of 'Candide'Sep 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Call "Candide" the Humpty Dumpty of American musical theater. Ever since this comic operetta originally flopped on Broadway back in 1956, so many amazing theater and ope...
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Best bets: Bollywood, Beethoven and BroadwaySep 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Bollywood baby! "The Merchants of Bollywood," an international musical theater and dance spectacular that tells the tale of the powerful Indian filmmaking family ...
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Return of the 'King' (Lion, that is)Sep 27, 2010 11:00 pm - "The Lion King," the worldwide hit 1997 Broadway musical adaptation of Disney's animated feature, roars back into the Windy City Wednesday, Sept. 29, for a nine-week run...
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'An Evening with Sutton Foster' lives up to Broadway billingSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - When Broadway in Chicago President Lou Raizin spoke at the opening of remodeled and renamed Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, he also paid tribute to the late Ton...