Events for December 11th, 2009
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Friday - December 11th
Theater / Theater Event
Walk of Shame
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
10:30 p.m. queer storytellers
Hear funny, true stories from members of the New Colony theater group and special guests, who air their most embarrassing moments.
Theater / Theater Event
American Buffalo
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County") stars in David Mamet's drama about three small-time crooks in a rundown Chicago junk shop who plot to steal a valuable buffalo nickel. Francis Guinan also stars.
Theater / Theater Event
Rudolph, the Red-Hosed Reindeer
Mary's Attic - 5400 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Andersonville)
A campy musical parody of the classic tale features a cross-dressing reindeer.
Theater / Theater Event
The Addams Family
Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre - 24 W. Randolph St. - Chicago (Loop)
Tony Award-winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth star as Gomez and Morticia in the pre-Broadway world premiere of the musical based on the bizarre family of characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams.
Music / Jazz
McCoy Tyner and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
Symphony Center - 220 S. Michigan Ave. - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
8 p.m.
Events / Community Event
Caroling at Cloud Gate
Millennium Park - 201 E. Randolph St. - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
6 p.m. Old Town School of Folk Music
Hold a candle and watch it flicker on the surface of the Bean during 50 minute holiday sing-alongs featuring a different choral group each week.
Theater / Theater Event
2009 New Stages Series
Goodman Theatre - 170 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (Loop)
7 p.m. "Rain," by Regina Taylor
See staged readings of new works by established local and national playwrights including Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz and Goodman Theatre artistic associate Regina Taylor.
Music / Rock
Theater / Theater Event
Cirque du Soleil's Banana Shpeel
The Chicago Theatre - 175 N. State St. - Chicago (Loop)
A new production written and directed by David Shiner ("Kooza") is heavy on comedy and choreography, blending slapstick with such dance forms as tap and hip-hop.
Theater / Theater Event
Young Frankenstein
Cadillac Palace Theatre - 151 W. Randolph St. - Chicago (Loop)
Tony Award-winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley recreate their Broadway roles as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster respectively in Mel Brooks' and Thomas Meehan's adaptation of Brooks' classic film parody of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," in which a New York surgeon must face his family's...
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