1st major post-COVID Pre-Broadway Chicago show announced: 'Paradise Square, A New Musical'
CHICAGO (WLS) — “Paradise Square, A New Musical” will be the first major Pre-Broadway show to raise its curtain in Chicago after the prolonged closure of live theater due to the COVID pandemic, Broadway In Chicago announced Tuesday.Its Pre-Broadway engagement at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre will run Nov. 2 to Dec. 5.
The musical is set in New York City in 1863. The Civil War raged on.
Within this galvanizing story of racial harmony undone by a country at war with itself, we meet the denizens of a local saloon called Paradise Square: the indomitable Black woman who owns it; her Irish-Catholic sister-in-law and her Black minister husband; a conflicted newly arrived Irish immigrant; a fearless freedom seeker; an anti-abolitionist political boss, and a penniless songwriter trying to capture it all, the production company said. They have conflicting notions of what it means to be an American while living through one of the most tumultuous eras in our country’s history.
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The world premiere of “Paradise Square” was produced in January 2019 by Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
The musical is based on Hard Times, which was originally presented at the intimate Off-Broadway theatre, Nancy Manocherian’s the cell, in 2012. With visceral and nuanced staging and choreography that captures the pulsating energy when Black and Irish cultures meet, “Paradise Square” depicts an overlooked true-life moment when hope and possibility shone bright, Broadway In Chicago said.
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Tickets are available now for groups of 10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710 or emailing [email protected].
“Paradise Square” will be a part of the new BIC subscription, which launches in August.
Individual tickets for “Paradise Square” will go on sale on June 8.
For more information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
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