Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age , the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) is a resident professional not-for-profit musical theatre company in Illinois founded in 1980 by Philip Kraus, Bridget McDonough, and Ellen Dubinsky. The company presented over 75 productions of operetta and musical theatre at Northwestern University 's 1,000-seat Cahn Auditorium.
An ensemble-based company is formed of a group of artists (actors, directors, designers, playwrights, etc.) who work collaboratively to create each production. Chicago theater has a long record of introducing new plays and playwrights. Many of the theaters in Chicago have new play workshop programs to cultivate work from current playwrights.
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Chicago Recording Company, or CRC, is a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1975. [1] Boasting twelve studios, CRC is the largest recording company in the Midwest , and the largest independent studio in the country.
The first show in the theatre on March 15, 1977 was Cap Streeter, a musical about a Chicago legend, produced by the Dinglefest Theatre Company.; Steppenwolf’s first show in the city of Chicago, Say Good Night, Gracie, opened November, 1979 at the Theatre Building Chicago and performed through early 1980 and featured John Malkovich and Austin Pendleton.
The Vic Theatre is a music venue located in Chicago, Illinois. Vic Theatre can easily accommodate 1,400 people or with a seated capacity of 1,000. Vic Theatre can easily accommodate 1,400 people or with a seated capacity of 1,000.
Logo of Chicago College of Performing Arts. Chicago College of Performing Arts is a performing arts college that is housed at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The college has three divisions: the Music Conservatory, the Interdisciplinary Conservatory, and the Theatre Conservatory. Nearly 600 students come from more than ...