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Review: Tootsie the Musical (Broadway in Chicago)
Tootsie
Music and lyrics by David Yazbek
Book by Robert Horn
Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph (map)
thru Oct 14 | tix: $35-$105 | more info
Check for half-price tickets
Review: Anything Goes (Broadway in Chicago)
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Anything Goes Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter |
Review: Rock of Ages (Broadway Playhouse)
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Rock of Ages Book by Chris D’Arienzo |
Review: The Addams Family (Broadway in Chicago)
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The Addams Family Book by Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice |
Review: Rock of Ages (Broadway in Chicago)
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Rock of Ages Written by Chris D’Arienzo Check for half-price tickets |
Addams Family set to go through Revisions
“Revisions” for ‘Addams Family’ before Broadway run
The producers of Addams Family, set for a spring Broadway opening, have hired the Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks as a consultant for the $16.5 million production, attempting to revive the musical from its less-than-glowing reviews.
perhaps we were taking a little too much for granted assuming that the audience walks in with the relationship with the Addams family fully intact, and we didn’t appropriately reconnect the audience to the family members,” said producer Stuart Oken.
No one on the creative team has left the show or been fired, Mr. Oken said, with Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch still listed as the directors and production designers, and Mr. Zaks billed as creative consultant.
Mr. Zaks is close to Mr. Lane, having directed him in the long-running Broadway musical revivals of Guys and Dolls in 1992 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1996, for which Mr. Lane won the Tony Award for best actor in a musical.
The musical’s lead producers, Stuart Oken and Roy Furman have admitted that the plot needed to focus more tightly on the Addams family members and that all roles, starting with Gomez (Nathan Lane) and Morticia (Bebe Neuwirth), needed their eccentric and subversive personalities clearly established in dialogue and song before the main action of the plot begins.
