| "THE COMEDY SHOULD BITE..." AND OFF WE GO!
by Jason Loewith on 8/13/2008 04:56:00 PM
While you blog-readers are happily basking in the summer sunshine, lazily biking up and down the lake, planning another trip to Ravinia or Grant Park, I'm already hard at work getting ready to make you laugh... that's right, folks, the 2008-09 season at Next Theatre Company just started on Monday night.
What, you didn't know?
I'm not surprised. Monday night was first rehearsal for THE U.N. INSPECTOR, Nikolai Gogol's hilarious 1836 satire about government corruption, brought to 2005 London by my British colleague David Farr (where it premiered at the National), and brought to 2008 Chicago by Victory Gardens' wonderful playwright Jim Sherman.
We'll get some photos up here from rehearsal, but in the meantime let me tell you: that first read-through was a hoot and a half. After hearing design presentations, the cast of 12 (watched by a group of about 25 donors and Board members - ask me how much you have to give to get into that select group!) tore into the script with abandon. Leading the cast are the wonderfully funny (and born for their roles) Joe Dempsey, Susan Hart and Bill McGough as, respectively, Michael Murphy, the wife of the President and the President.
For the egg-headed among you (or those who don't like outdoor classical music), check out this wonderful National Theatre website which has enough dramaturgy about the world premiere production to choke a horse. Or at least an actor.
See you at the theater!
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