By: Neil SimonDirected by: Scott PhelpsWhen: April 22nd thru May 24thWhere: 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045Run time: 1 hours 50 minutesAbout: Part one of Neil Simons autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."
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Dear Evan Hanson
Paramount Theatre (2/4 - 3/22) | |
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Bernadette, The Musical
Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture (2/12 - 3/15) | |
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The Dance of Death
Steppenwolf (1/29 - 3/22) | |
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The Ultimate Cher Show Starring Annika
Raue Center For The Arts (2/7 - 2/7) | |
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Red Light Winter
Ego Death Theatre Collective (2/20 - 3/8) | |
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Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile: The Musical
Studebaker Theater (1/29 - 2/21)
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Patchwork 5
The Edge (2/20 - 3/1) | |
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Music of the Baroque: Baroque Blockbusters!
North Shore Center for Performing Arts (3/1 - 3/1) | |
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SMG Jimmy's Country Rap Showdown LIVE!
BaseCamp Pub (1/30 - 1/31) | |
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