“Funny Girl”
December 31, 2009 – March 7, 2010
Funny Girl, set in New York City, revolves around Ziegfeld comedienne Fanny Brice and her rise to fame in the early ‘20s. Told mostly in flashbacks, the musical shows her from the start as a gawky Brooklyn teen, fast-talking her way into show business and her first triumph in the Zeigfeld Follies, to becoming the toast of New York, to the unraveling of her personal life and marriage to gangster Nick Arnstein.

“Rag Time: The Musical”
March 18 – May 23, 2010

E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime is a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. The Tony Award-winning musical is the story of an immigrant artist who becomes a movie director; the saga of "Gibson Girl" Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, for whose sake playboy Harry K. Thaw; kills architect Stanford White and a lone black man's quest for justice when his car is destroyed by a racist fire chief.

“Sugar”
June 3 – August 1, 2010

Sugar is a Tony Award-winning musical based on “Some Like It Hot”. Two unemployed musicians, Jerry and Joe, witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. In order to escape gangster Spats Palazzo, they dress as women and join Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters, an all-female band about to leave town for an engagement at a Miami Beach hotel. Complications arise when Joe, now known as Josephine, falls in love with beautiful band singer Sugar Kane, who has a slight drinking problem that tends to interfere with her ability to choose a romantic partner wisely. More than anything, Sugar wants to marry a millionaire, prompting Joe to disguise himself as the man of her dreams. Meanwhile, wealthy and elderly Osgood Fielding, Jr. is pursuing Daphne, unaware she really is Jerry in drag. As much as he knows he needs to reveal his true gender to his over-amorous paramour, Jerry is beginning to enjoy all the expensive gifts bestowed upon him on a regular basis. Total chaos erupts when Spatz and his gang descend upon the hotel and realize who Josephine and Daphne really are.

Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo

April 16 – 18, 2010