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Goldstar is rolling out the “Comp Train” with a one-day only promotion featuring tons of comp tickets, for which you only pay service fees. The perfect way to get out and try something new at a really low price. Goldstar always has comp tickets, but there will be special offers in each of their markets. The link will automatically use your IP address to find local offers.
Due to events in Boston, this promotion will not be available there until Thursday.
Looking for a show the entire family can enjoy? Spamalot has something to offend everyone!! I’m particularly offended because I posted the freebie tickets before grabbing my own, thus requiring me to pay the full Goldstar price if I want to see this – – again.
Jedlicka Performing Arts Center concludes its 2012-13 season with one of the funniest shows on Earth, Monty Python’s Spamalot. This outrageous comedy won three 2005 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Director (Mike Nichols), and also scored the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. Based on the classic comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and written by original Python Eric Idle, Spamalot follows the wacky Knights of the Round Table on their quest for the Holy Grail. During their comedic adventures, they confront rude Frenchmen, one legless knight, killer rabbits and flying cows, and participate in show-stopping musical numbers.
Be one of the first people in the world to see the new musical Big Fish before it heads to Broadway. This whimsical and touching tale centers on the charismatic Edward Bloom, whose tall tales of his epic adventures as a young man frustrate his son Will, who wants to truly know his father. As Edward’s final chapter approaches, Will embarks on his own journey to find out who his father really is, unraveling the real man from the myths he created about his life. Based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film by Tim Burton, Big Fish is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) and a new book by John August, a frequent Tim Burton collaborator who also penned the screenplay for the film version. With a cast of 27, led by two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can) and Tony nominees Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert, this rollicking fantasy set in the American South is a tribute to the power of dreaming big … and the unpredictable adventure of life itself.
You may know and love the songs — “People Will Say We’re In Love,” “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” “I Cain’t Say No,” — but you’ve never seen Oklahoma! like this. Lyric Opera of Chicago has pulled out all the stops to mount a landmark production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Two of Broadway’s brightest stars — John Cudia (“Phantom” from The Phantom of the Opera) and Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins” from Mary Poppins) — star as Curly and Laurey in this epic tale of cowboys versus farmers in the Oklahoma Territory. Experience Agnes de Mille’s original, thrilling choreography as 37 members of the renowned Lyric Orchestra play Richard Rodgers’ music with a depth and richness rarely heard in any theater, anywhere. Lavish sets, gorgeous costumes and the combined power of Lyric Opera’s orchestra, chorus and cast all contribute to what’s bound to be a memorable theatrical event.
The entertainment phenomenon known as the Blue Man Group is better than ever in an updated show featuring all-new material that has the blue bald guys interacting with “GiPads,” taking a humorous look at contemporary communication vehicles, and performing a pulsating new finale with an original music score. Audiences worldwide have experienced and loved this wildly imaginative family-friendly stage show with its exuberant combination of comedy, art and science, along with fabulous visual effects and Grammy-nominated music.
The UP Comedy Club is next door to Second City and offers a eclectic group of shows seven nights a week. Here’s the link to the main page with eight shows currently being offered – some FREE!
The Ben Bailey show (Cash Cab and Road Rage) is May 10th. I used to wander into the living room when this was on – wanted to kick myself for always taking the subway…
Tickets to Big Fish start at $28 (half-price) for performances over the next couple of weeks. Be one of the first people in the world to see the new musical Big Fish before it heads to Broadway. This whimsical and touching tale centers on the charismatic Edward Bloom, whose tall tales of his epic adventures as a young man frustrate his son Will, who wants to truly know his father. As Edward’s final chapter approaches, Will embarks on his own journey to find out who his father really is, unraveling the real man from the myths he created about his life. Based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film by Tim Burton, Big Fish is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) and a new book by John August, a frequent Tim Burton collaborator who also penned the screenplay for the film version. With a cast of 27, led by two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can) and Tony nominees Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert, this rollicking fantasy set in the American South is a tribute to the power of dreaming big … and the unpredictable adventure of life itself.
¡Holy guacamole! I’ve been hoping this one would appear (I was gonna buy tickets…can you believe the shock to my system?). Today only, get FREE tickets to several performances of Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center. Jedlicka puts on a fine show and it’s very easy to reach: Just a block north of I55 on Central. We’ve seen this a few times on Broadway (define “a few” Goddess – well, let’s just say the performers started to recognize PITA at the stage door) and once up in Milwaukee – – this is definitely a show that the entire family will enjoy. It’s hysterical.
Jedlicka Performing Arts Center concludes its 2012-13 season with one of the funniest shows on Earth, Monty Python’s Spamalot. This outrageous comedy won three 2005 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Director (Mike Nichols), and also scored the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. Based on the classic comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and written by original Python Eric Idle, Spamalot follows the wacky Knights of the Round Table on their quest for the Holy Grail. During their comedic adventures, they confront rude Frenchmen, one legless knight, killer rabbits and flying cows, and participate in show-stopping musical numbers.
Mary-Arrchie’s innovative staging of this challenging drama offers an up-close look at one day in the life of Marines serving time in a dehumanizing military prison. Based on author Kenneth H. Brown’s own incarceration in 1957 Camp Fuji, Japan, The Brig explores the inmates’ psychological reactions to their intense environment, creating an equally visceral audience experience. The play was first produced by the avant-garde Living Theatre in 1963, which also staged an Obie-winning 2007 revival of the work. Get freebie tickets for performances through the third week of April.
Tickets to The Jofrey Ballet’s production of Othello are selling at a 66% discount on Goldstar. Performances at the Auditorium Theatre run through the beginning of May.
Sublimely twisted and infinitely captivating, Joffrey Ballet returns to the stage with encore performances of Lar Lubovitch’s three-act ballet. Based on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of passion, jealousy, ambition and betrayal, the story pits the scheming Iago against Othello. Lubovitch’s expressive, contemporary choreography combines with a score by Oscar-winner Elliot Goldenthal, performed by The Chicago Philharmonic. Cutting-edge stage design, elaborate projections and breathtaking costumes add to Joffrey’s riveting production. These will be the final performances of this critically acclaimed ballet before Joffrey retires it from their active repertory.
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn, the comic poet of middle-class life, goes deep and dark in Woman in Mind, a play about housewife Susan, who’s married to boring cleric Gerald. Susan’s family treats her with condescension and apathy, until one day when she’s knocked unconscious (thanks to a clumsy accident with a garden rake) and wakes up to a fantasy world populated by the “perfect” version of her family. Dressed all in white, the family lives in a stately home, drinks champagne and exchanges compliments. Eventually, though, a good thing goes too far and the dream family becomes a living nightmare — one that awakens Susan to the fact that she’s going mad. Eclipse Ensemble Member and Goodman Theatre Associate Producer Steve Scott directs.
Free tickets are for Thursday and Friday performances through May.
Get free tickets to April performances of James Barrie’s Quartets: Reading of One-Acts by Peter Pan Author at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.
ShawChicago, billed as the premier concert reading company in North America, finishes out its 19th season with a quartet of its finest actors at the podium for a trio of lesser-known one-act plays by the famed Victorian author of the classic Peter Pan. These shorts all shine with J.M. Barrie’s humanistic take on relationships, on display in 1914’s The Twelve-Pound Look as a woman works out a way to escape a stifling marriage and in Rosalind, as an aging actress seeks to escape her most famous Shakespearean role, only to discover a good reason to stay. Finally, The New Word finds a father struggling to break through his British reserve to give an emotional goodbye to his war-bound son.