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Two tidbits of touring-theater news: Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik's ribald, iconoclastic rock opera, will play in Chicago August 4-16, 2009. Mark your calendars--Spring Awakening is amazing. Like most great rock operas, Awakening has 19th century German source material and is mostly about screwing, but is a little about dying and growing up, too. Take a listen to "The Bitch of Living", which is one of our faves from the show.
Rent is making a return trip through Chicago in 2009, too, this time with original cast members Adam Pascal as Roger and Anthony Rapp as Mark. They'll be 38 and 37 years old, respectively, for the tour, and will have been playing these parts for 13 years.
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I love how Chicago gets New York's dried up leftovers.
Can we be expecting a Cats return as well?
This news is very exciting. "Spring Awakening" is a superb musical. I can't wait to see it again!
Matty, please explain your comment because that makes absolutely no sense. If you're talking about Spring Awakening, you're so far wrong it's pathetic.
If you're talking about Rent you're still pretty far off. Rent still sells tickets wherever it goes, which means people still care about the show and want to see it. And did you look at the city tour list? It's going EVERYWHERE. Frankly, it'd be an insult to Chicago if we didn't get it.
We're also home to Jersey Boys and Wicked, which no matter what your opinion of the show, are Broadway's biggest sellers.
yawn.
Matty- hye you bougie snob. Maybe some of us can't afford/don't want to go to NY to see first runs. In any case, let me know when you climb off your goddamn high horse. I didn't realize you were so much better than Tony-Award winning casts.
So glad to see more theater coverage on Chicagoist, hope it continues. I was pleasantly surprised to see last week's review of "Gas for Less", which is such a sad, understated play.
Seeing a "dried up leftover" from NYC might be the first step for some young people towards a real interest in theater. And, hopefully, not just the musical kind.
I was talking musicals, not plays. We have the best plays apparently.
Anyway I hate musicals.
JELLYKAL CATS! JAZZ HANDS!
Musicals really aren't my thing either. The only exception is Les Miserables because it was the first big production I saw. Wicked & Jersey Boys are overrated and hardly the best that Broadway has to offer. Or the worst- how many Disney musicals are on Broadway right now?