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Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
Thirteen is a 2003 teen drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, and starring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood and Reed with Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet, Deborah Kara Unger, Kip Pardue, Sarah Clarke, D. W. Moffett, Vanessa Hudgens (in her film acting debut), and Jenicka Carey in supporting roles.
The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre. Attached to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, the theatre produces an average of five musicals each year, presented in the round, as well as productions aimed at younger audiences. [1] A small, live orchestra provides accompaniment.
Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero … Tax credits! The 2002 film “Chicago” brought the stage musical and the song “Cell Block Tango” to the big screen. It also helped revolutionize the industry.
The Annoyance opened a new theatre and bar in July 2006 in the Uptown area of Chicago. That location opened with a production of President Bush is a Great Man, directed by Mick Napier. In October 2006, the theatre revived their very first show, Splatter Theatre, first performed in 1987. This has become a Halloween tradition at the theater.
In 2016, A Red Orchid Theatre became the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. This MacArthur Award included a $200,000 grant to be used to "establish a cash reserve and implement its audience development plan that includes new marketing and audience engagement strategies."
Wildfires have torn through Los Angeles, destroying homes and displacing residents. Major Hollywood productions have paused shooting. They include "Fallout," one Amazon's biggest hits last year ...
Since 2006 it has been owned by Chicago-based Jam Productions (itself owned by Jerry Mickelson and Arny Granat), which claims to be the "largest independent producer of live entertainment in the United States". [4] [5] [6] In October 2015 in a labor dispute, Jam Productions fired the stagehands of the Riviera Theater. [7]