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WINDY CITY TIMES
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Theater Spotlight and Critics' Picks
2014-10-15
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Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Donna McKechnie, the primary performing muse to late director-choreographer Michael Bennett in such musicals as A Chorus Line, Company and Promises, Promises, is the headlining star for Pride Films and Plays' annual benefit Simply Sensational: Legends. The event features McKenchnie and other performers in addition to a raffle for fabulous door prizes. Pride Films and Plays' benefit Simply Sensational: Legends starring Donna McKechnie is at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. General admission tickets are $75, while VIP tickets ( including 6 p.m. pre-show cabaret and appetizers at Cooper's, 1232 W. Belmont Ave. ) are $100. Tickets to a post-show champagne and chocolates reception with McKechnie are an additional $25. For more information, visit www.pridefilmsandplays.com .
CRITICS' PICKS
At Home at the Zoo, City Lit Theater, through Oct. 26. Intensely-crafted performances lend coherence to Edward Albee's 1959 snapshot of an urban duel, enhanced ( if not clarified ) by his 2004 prologue. MSB
The Clean House, Bluebird Arts at Athenaeum Theatre, through Oct. 26. "Life is a joke, so you might as well die laughing" is the moral of Sarah Ruhl's magic-realism parable, rendered with plenty of soul-cleansing comedy in this debut production. MSB
Don Giovanni, Lyric Opera of Chicago, through Oct. 29. The famous serial seducer becomes a coke-snorting and sadistic modernizing menace in Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls' new production that updates Mozart's masterpiece to 1920s rural Spain. The Lyric's first non-traditional staging of Don Giovanni is a dramatically compelling kick off to the company's 60th anniversary season. SCM
Season on the Line, The House Theatre of Chicago, through Oct. 26. Capt. Ahab is a meglomaniac theater director and Moby Dick is a white-suited critic in Shaun Pfautsch's highly creative transposition from Melville novel to showbiz valentine. It's great fun yet remarkably faithful in structure to the great American original. JA
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