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Illinoise is a 2023 dance revue [1] musical with music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens and an original story by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury. The musical was inspired by Stevens' 2005 album Illinois. The musical follows a young man who joins a group of friends telling stories around a campfire about their childhoods and growing up in ...
“Illinoise” may be called a new musical on Broadway, but its real language is dance. Tony Award-winner Justin Peck directed and choreographed “Illinoise,” a 90-minute show without any ...
Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that Stevens has since acknowledged was a joke. It was adapted into a musical, Illinoise, in 2023 and, after playing smaller venues, opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in April 2024.
Sufjan Stevens' Musical 'Illinoise' Sets Broadway Opening Date. The pair brought “Illinoise” to life as it officially opened at the St. James Theatre on April 24. The show is nominated for ...
The creators of “Illinoise,” the new stage show inspired by the 2005 Sufjan Stevens album “Illinois,” are the first to admit that the production isn’t a musical in the most traditional ...
In 2023 Peck adapted a musical production of Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album Illinois titled Illinoise, alongside playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. [26] The production had its debut at the Fisher Center at Bard before playing at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. The production then ran at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Sufjan Stevens’s indie folk concept album “Illinois” (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings ...
Benjamin Tyler Cook (born December 11, 1997) [1] [2] is an American actor, singer and dancer, known for his work across stage and screen.. Cook has appeared on the Broadway stage in Ragtime, Billy Elliot the Musical (for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award), Tuck Everlasting, Mean Girls, West Side Story, and Illinoise.