Porchlight Revisits... Closes 2014-15 Season with MACK AND MABEL This Week

Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to present the final production in the second season of Chicago's hit "lost" musicals in staged concert series, Porchlight Revisits... Mack and Mabel, featuring book by Michael Stewart (Bye, Bye Birdie, 42nd Street) and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!, Mame) with direction by Michael Weber, music direction by Beckie Menzie and musical staging by Tammy Mader. Mack and Mable is presented for two-nights-only today, May 12 and tomorrow, May 13 at 8:00 p.m. and is performed on the set of Porchlight's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (April 17 - May 24) on nights when there are no performances at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.

Tickets for Mack and Mabel are $30 and include access to the popular pre-performance event, Behind the Show Backstory starting at 7:15 p.m. and the staged reading of Mack and Mabel starting at 8 p.m. Behind the Show Backstory, created and hosted by Weber, is a multi-media presentation setting the stage on the development of the original 1974 production of Mack and Mabel, reveling in all the juicy backstage stories and revealing the state of the art on Broadway that season. Single tickets to Mack and Mabel are available at porchlightmusictheatre.org or by calling the Stage 773 box office, 773.327.5252.

Mack and Mabel, nominated for eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is set at the time when movies were silent and cinema was magic. Movie director Mack Sennett, "King of Comedy" and creator of "The Keystone Kops," discovers Mabel Normand, a waitress from Brooklyn, and turns her into a silent comedy star. So begins one of the most tempestuous of American love stories. With a spectacular, soaring score, Mack and Mabel is a beautiful, touching and ultimately heart-breaking story of two of Hollywood's greatest icons featuring the songs "I Won't Send Roses," "Time Heals Everything" "Tap Your Troubles Away" and "Movies Were Movies."

Porchlight Revisits...Mack and Mabel stars Jason Richards as "Mack Sennett," Dana Tretta as "Mabel Normand" and Tammy Mader as "Lottie Ames." The ensemble includes Larry Baldachi, Zach Drane, Kim Green, Jim Heatherly, Amanda Newman, Anthony Norman, Lindsay Loretta Prerost, Ed Rutherford, Jenna Shoppe and Tommy William Thurston.