Altar Boyz Tour Launches Oct. 10 in Chicago

The 30-week national tour of the acclaimed Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz will kick off with a three-week engagement at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 West Monroe Street) October 10 - 29, 2006.Altar Boyz is now in its second year Off-Broadway at New World Stages. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, the show utilizes sharp parody, sinfully spectacular dancing, and irreverent humor, to satirize a Christian boy band on the final stop of their world tour.Fans of the show, known as Altarholics, include celebrities as diverse as Stephen Schwartz and Tommy Tune to Kevin Bacon and Joan Rivers. Ana Gasteyer, Rosie O'Donnell, Stephen Sondheim, Twyla Tharp, Cynthia Nixon, Anthony Rapp, and more also count themselves as fans. Altar Boyz is directed by Stafford Arima and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Altar Boyz has music & lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker with a book by Kevin Del Aguila, based on a concept by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport. A Korean production of the show opened this past April at ChungMu Art Hall in Seoul, also directed by Arima, to much success. Tickets  for the October 10-29 run range from $32 to $55 and are available at Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (18 W. Monroe, 24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), through the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers (including all Carson Pirie Scott stores, Tower Records, Hot Tix, select Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com.  Groups of 20 or more can receive a discount by calling (312) 977-1710.For more information, visit Chicago.com">www.BroadwayInChicago.com and www.altarboyz.com

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