Daily Rehearsal: the ‘Good Wife’ actually comes to Chicago
By Kate DriesDaily Rehearsal: the ‘Good Wife’ actually comes to Chicago
By Kate Dries1. Debates over how good Maestro is continue among the major media outlets, with votes all over the place. The Reader says that Hershey Felder “succeeds on every level”. The Sun-Times says he’s “a genius.” But TimeOut qualifies that the show”doesn’t really reach a roof-blowing emotional intensity,” though the Trib writes that it’s “the best of [Felder’s] self-composed entertainments to date.”
2. The cast of Crowns at the Goodman has been announced, with E. Faye Butler and Felicia Fields taking the leading roles of Mabel and Mother Shaw, respectively. Jasondra Johnson (described as a “newcomer”) will play Velma. It opens in June, so we’ve got a long season or two to wait.
4. Performing in the play of a book they’ve probably never read, students that are in Chicago-area choirs will be performing at the Goodman in their 34th annual A Christmas Carol. They’ll be doing 30-minutes of singing holiday tunes before the show starts; it would be wise to avoid catching up on your holiday shopping downtown before the show, as that’s a lot of the same stuff and I’ve read it can make you go crazy. It opens November 18; the participating schools are Barrington High, Benet Academy, Walter Payton, Lincoln Park,
5. Denis O’Hare won’t be one of the crazies at The Homerathon, but he will be doing An Iliad at the Public Theatre in New York, after talks to come back to Chicago for a variety of plays, including Court’s production of the show, fell through because of his TV schedule.
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