Scott C. Morgan
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New dramas, time-tested musicals among fall's theater offeringsAug 24, 2010 11:00 pm - You can't please everybody with theater. Play things too safely and a theater audience becomes bored and complacent. Take too many artistic risks and audiences will fle...
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Drury Lane's 'Hot Mikado' full of sizzling swingAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - You might think that Gilbert and Sullivan purists would be horrified at "Hot Mikado," a jazzy 1940s-style updating of the British duo's endearing 1885 operetta "The Mika...
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Comedian Jon Lovitz to visit SchaumburgAug 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Actor and comedian Jon Lovitz skyrocketed to fame as a cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" starting in 1985. Since then, he has continually proven himself a maste...
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Touring musical 'Shrek' a winner in ChicagoJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - "Shrek the Musical" had an abbreviated 441-performance Broadway run that didn't live up to expectations. But as evidenced by the newly revamped touring production that o...
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Guinan, Anderson flex acting skills in 'Guide for the Perplexed'Jul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Gurnee native Kevin Anderson's professional acting career began at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in 1982. So having Anderson back for the world premiere of "A Guide ...
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Community colleges help workforce retool, students step aheadJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Recent Barrington High School graduate Gina Governale could have just lounged around her parents' house before heading off to Dordt College in Iowa this fall. Instead, G...
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Steppenwolf crafts funny, fatalistic 'Parallelogram'Jul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - How would you react if your older self traveled back in time to paint a bleak future that you wouldn't want to be a part of? Would you try to change the course of histor...
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Mason to step down as Lyric's general directorJul 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Lyric Opera of Chicago general director William Mason announced Wednesday that he plans to retire when his current contract expires at the end of the 2011-12 season. "I ...
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'Shrek' musical still seeking fairy tale endingJul 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Happy endings finish off most children's fairy tales, even ones that poke fun at the genre like DreamWorks' film "Shrek" and its three subsequent sequels. Yet the endin...
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'Sugar' far less sweet than beloved film versionJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - On paper, "Sugar" sounds promising. This 1972 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1959 film comedy "Some Like it Hot" features a score by "Funny Girl" collaborators Jule ...