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- Broadway In Chicago will celebrate the new Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place by opening its doors to the public for exclusive tours and hosting a special appearances by the first cast to grace the stage of the new theatre, TRACES.
- Saturday open house visitors will be treated to a special 15 % community discount valid at Macy’s store.
- Broadway In Chicago will also host an exclusive sale of theater memorabilia to benefit Season of Concern and will include theatre photos, posters, programs and other souvenirs.
- TRACES combines extraordinary acrobatic feats, music, film, narration and dance. Seven performers deliver gravity-defying displays of skill that are fresh, urban and inventive. The cast’s wide-ranging talent includes traditional Chinese acrobatics, balancing on each other's heads, tumbling through hoops and leaping spectacularly up giant poles without using their hands. Poetic and explosive, funny and thoughtful, TRACES creates an experience that will surprise and delight all ages. Individual tickets to TRACES are $50 - $71.50 and are currently on sale. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000; all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Groups of 10 or more should call (312) 977-1710.
Broadway In Chicago was created in July 2000 and over the past ten years has grown to be one of the largest commercial touring homes in the country. A Nederlander Company, Broadway In Chicago lights up the Chicago Theater District entertaining well over a million people annually in 5 theatres. Broadway In Chicago presents a full range of entertainment, including musicals and plays, on the stages of five of the finest theatres in Chicago’s Loop including the Bank of America Theatre, Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre, Cadillac Palace Theatre, the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University and just off the Magnificent Mile, the new Broadway Playhouse. Broadway In Chicago is best known for attracting pre-Broadway productions, highlights of those include THE PRODUCERS, SPAMALOT, MOVIN’ OUT and THE ADDAMS FAMILY as well as long-run engagements including WICKED, Disney’s THE LION KING, BILLY ELLIOT the Musical to name a few. In the words of Mayor Daley, “Broadway In Chicago is a leader in the Downtown Theatre District, and an economic engine that will keep our downtown alive and full of energy for years to come.”
I remember the good old days when I had a subscription to Broadway in Chicago. In fact, for the first two (three?) years of its existence, I did. I haven't been to a Broadway in Chicago play since Wicked two years ago though. I miss it! I can't believe that was TEN years ago though!
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