Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece becomes a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event,
featuring Nathan Lane & Brian Dennehy
Welcome to Harry Hope's saloon, home to a ragtag band of drunks and dreamers who today celebrate the arrival of Hickey, the charismatic traveling salesman whose raucous presence always ensures a grand good time. But when a newly sober Hickey blows in with a renewed outlook on life, his zealous attempts to fix the lives of his old friends leads to a series of events that are at once devastatingly comic and heartbreaking—and a revelation that threatens to shatter the tenuous illusions that fuel their lives. O'Neill's monumental drama is an unparalleled theatrical journey, "as corrosive as rotgut whiskey, as morbidly funny as a funeral gone amok, as hallucinatory as an alcohol-fueled excursion into purgatory" (Sun-Times).
Runs @ The Goodman April 21 - June 10...
WHICH SUCKETH FOR 2 REASONS:
1. It’s a really long time away.
2. The production barely missed the cut-off for the benefits from Senate Bill 397
[otherwise known as “Live Theatre Production Tax Credit”], which goes into effect in July, 2012
Chicago has long served as a cocoon for premiering pre-Broadway shows (SPAMALOT, The Producers, MAMMA MIA!, Movin' Out, AIDA, The Addams Family, etc.) while simultaneously housing long-running Broadway-quality shows (WICKED, Million Dollar Quartet, THE LION KING, Jersey Boys, RAGTIME, ect.). On Dec. 16, 2011, Governor Pat Quinn signed Senate Bill 397, which gives a tax credit for live theatres with 1,200+ seats that boosts the Theatre In Chicago (the bill also benefits Sears, CME Group, & FARMERS!). Beginning in July, certain theatres (excluding those in the suburbs) that produce pre-Broadway or long-running shows with labor & marketing expenses that exceed $100,000 can receive a 20% tax application of their spending (with a $2 million cap per year).
I could not support this legislature more.
My Opinion Is Shared By The Queen & King Of Chicago Theatre:
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