Events for November 8th, 2009
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Sunday - November 8th
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The House on Mango Street
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
In a partnership with the One Book, One Chicago program, local playwright Tanya Saracho adapts Sandra Cisneros' collection of vignettes about a young girl growing up in one of Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods.
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Young Frankenstein
Cadillac Palace Theatre - 151 W. Randolph St. - Chicago (Loop)
7:30 p.m.
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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Dance Chicago 2009
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
The 15th annual festival features hip-hop, ballet, tap, Latin, jazz, urban, ethnic and contemporary dance performed by 130 companies at four area venues.
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Blue Man Group
Briar Street Theatre - 3133 N. Halsted St. - Chicago
This long-running and constantly evolving hit show combines performance art and slapstick comedy into a unique theatrical event.
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Dooby Dooby Moo
Lifeline Theatre - 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. - Chicago (Rogers Park)
A musical based on the kids' tale by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin in which a duck attempts to rehearse his fellow farm animals for the county fair talent competition.
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Hairspray
Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire - 10 Marriott Drive - Lincolnshire
A 16-year-old big Baltimore girl decides to dance her way onto TV's most popular show in the national touring production of Tony Award-winning musical comedy based on John Waters' cult classic film.
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Jersey Boys
Bank of America Theatre - 18 W. Monroe St. - Chicago (Loop)
The 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about four blue-collar kids who gained pop stardom as The Four Seasons. Features "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."
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Richard III
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier - 800 E. Grand Ave. - Chicago (Streeterville)
Shakespeare's tragic tale of the villainous, 15th Century British king.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Writers' Theatre - 325 Tudor Ct. - Glencoe
In Tom Stoppard's 1966 tragicomedy, the disloyal courtier-spies declared dead in the fifth act of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" return to star in the story as told from their confused existential perspective.
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When She Danced
TimeLine Theatre - 615 W. Wellington Ave. - Chicago
A comedy set in Paris in the '20s about the artistic and financial struggles of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan.
