Events for December 9th, 2009
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Wednesday - December 9th
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
No Tell Motel: Kinky X-Mas
Debonair Social Club - 1575 N. Milwaukee Ave. - Chicago (Bucktown/Wicker Park)
10 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.
A holiday show features Eve's Parlor Burlesque and fire-eating stripper Miss Pussykatt.
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.
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
Bear Down!
Fizz Bar & Grill - 3220 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A new comedy in which a group of diehard football fans gear up for a winning year--fueled by visits from the ghosts of former Chicago Bears quarterbacks--but succumb to frustration when the season takes a turn for the worse.
Theater / Theater Event
Cirque du Soleil's Banana Shpeel
The Chicago Theatre - 175 N. State St. - Chicago (Loop)
2 p.m.
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...
Theater / Theater Event
A Christmas Carol
Goodman Theatre - 170 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (Loop)
12 p.m.
Chicago actor Larry Yando recreates his role as Scrooge in Tom Creamer's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the true meaning of Christmas.
Theater / Theater Event
A Christmas Carol
Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace - 100 Drury Lane - Oakbrook Terrace
10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. dinner buffet available
The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the true meaning of Christmas.
Theater / Theater Event
A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas
Apollo Theater - 2540 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
10:15 a.m.
An adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's classic holiday tale by Ralph Covert ("Ralph's World") and Jeff Award-winner G. Riley Mills.
Theater / Theater Event
Mrs. Claus
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago - 2407 W. 111th St. - Chicago (Beverly/Mt Greenwood)
A list of good boys and girls, belonging to Mrs. Claus and Santa, goes missing in this musical story for kids.
