Broadway in Chicago presents the Tony Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS. Although this show has a bounty of sassy, bright-colored, long-zipping, pointy-toed, thigh-high, spiky-heeled boots, this play is really about two men searching for self-identity and reinvention. Harvey Fierstein polishes the quirky film by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth into a shiny musical. Fierstein keeps the boy-meets-drag-queen story ...
The Fourth Walsh
Theatre with a side of life
Category Broadway in Chicago
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Review “First Wives Club the Musical” (Broadway in Chicago): Ultimate Ladies’ Night!
Broadway in Chicago presents a new Broadway-bound musical, FIRST WIVES CLUB the Musical. I love “First Wives Club” the movie. I’ve watched it more than a dozen times. I like FIRST WIVES CLUB The MUSICAL. I saw it last night. It was cute! It was predictable. Many of my favorite jokes from the movie made it ...
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Review “50 Shades! The Musical Parody” (Broadway in Chicago): A truly titillating and tickling musical tale
Reviewed by Jeanette Hamel Are you ready for a little R Rated song and dance? Is your middle aged book club ready for a wine-filled evening out? Are you one of the hundred MILLION people worldwide who have purchased the run away hit, “Fifty Shades of Grey” by El James? If so, then 50 Shades!, The ...
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Review “Cinderella” (Broadway in Chicago): A Fairytale for the Ages
Broadway in Chicago presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA. The 2013 Tony Award-winning production of “Cinderella” is touring the country. And the beloved fairytale has gotten a contemporary makeover. The vital story elements are still present. Glass slipper, check! Pumpkin carriage, check! Kingdom corruption, ch--- wait! What? Under the new book by Douglas Carter Beane, Cinderella is ...
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Review “Newsies” (Broadway in Chicago): Billy Elliot on Steroids Times 12!
Broadway in Chicago presents Disney’s NEWSIES. This Tony Award-winning musical features butch ballet. Choreographer Christopher Gattelli has these rag muffin guys regularly in the air. Instead of walking across the stage, they often flip...sideways, backwards, over another guy. Their athletic feats are marveling. And even when they do a graceful pirouette, it still looks every bit ...
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Review “Annie” (Broadway in Chicago): Big-Hearted Bundle of Joy
Broadway in Chicago presents ANNIE. Everyone’s favorite orphan is visiting Chicago. The Tony Award-winning musical ANNIE is here for a two week limited engagement. This touring production is directed by the original Tony Award-winning lyrist from 1977. This is the nineteenth production that Martin Charnin has directed himself. Charnin’s intimate knowledge of the inner-workings makes this ...
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Review “Evil Dead – The Musical” (Broadway in Chicago): ‘What the f#ck was that?’
Broadway in Chicago, in conjunction with Starvox Entertainment and Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment, present EVIL DEAD - THE MUSICAL. “What the f#ck was that?” sums up my experience last night with this Canadian cult classic. It’s also the title of a song in this horror spoof set to music. Since the original production opened in Toronto eleven ...
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Review “Buyer & Cellar” (Broadway in Chicago): Brilliant!
Broadway in Chicago presents BUYER & CELLAR. Michael Urie kicks off his one man show confessing that he doesn’t do impressions. I disagree. Not only did he do Barbra Streisand, he also did her assistant Sharon, his boyfriend Barry and James Brolin. His Babs, despite sounding slightly like Christopher Watkin, swept into the room like the ...