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splotchThis section is our community blog. It's set up for sharing thoughts, ideas, links, ruminations, suggestions and opinions about all things musical theatre and is open to all participants and patrons of the community who come to this site. To contribute a post of any length, please type "Composition Contribution" in the subject line and send it via email to [email protected]. Do include your name and contact information so we may verify authorship, and feel free to include a photo or piece of art to accompany your writing. Contributors are encouraged toward positivity and thoughtfulness, and ChicagolandMusicalTheatre's editors have final say in what's published here. Submissions to this section give ChciagolandMusicalTheatre.com the right to publish the writing.

Broad Minded presents, for one night only, ‘Grab ’em by the Midterms’ cabaret, Oct. 30 at Stage 773

October 29, 2018

With all the necessary logistical information included on the poster above, ChicagolandMusicalTheatre asked some of the event’s participants for added insight on the on the why. Here is what they told us: “We perform funny, heartbreaking, hopeful and defiant songs that pertain to the current political climate and some of the universal paths of womanhood.

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Broadway-bound ‘Tootsie’ to open in Chicago, Sept. 11

August 27, 2018

By Colin Douglas On September 11, a brand-new Broadway-bound musical comedy will open in the Windy City at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 West Randolph Street. In the tradition of other shows like The Producers, The Addams Family, and, more recently, Pretty Woman, another favorite, classic movie has found its way to the stage. Tootsie

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Griffin’s ‘Ragtime,’ Permoveo’s ‘CiviliTy of Albert Cashier’ and Theo’s ‘Sweeney’ leads take 2018’s top musical non-Equity Jeffs

June 11, 2018

Chicago  – The Jeff Awards announced recipients of the 45th Annual Non–Equity Jeff Awards on Monday, June 11, at the Athenaeum Theatre. Top honors were awarded to Steep Theatre Company’s Lela & Co. and Griffin Theatre Company’s Ragtime. Other productions receiving multiple awards included Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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Accomplished composer/playwright Hershey Felder opens up to ChicagolandMusicalTheatre while restaging ‘Our Great Tchaikovsky’ at Steppenwolf through May 13

April 10, 2018

I don’t think of the bigger picture of “Oh, I’m going to be this,” or “I have to do that.” I am a working artist. I get up in the morning and I go to work.

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Road trip to Mellen’s Whitewater ‘Street Scene’ elicits appreciation of largesse while pondering its future

March 6, 2018

This past weekend, ChicagolandMusicalTheatre took a road trip to the University of Wisconsin campus in Whitewater, WI to catch a rare production of Street Scene, a high musical drama directed by Chicagoan Kymberly Mellen. A history-maker as the first-ever Tony winner for Best Score, the team behind it is beyond compare.

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