Tag Archives | The Marriott Theatre

by Scott C. Morgan read review on DailyHerald.com How does a theater succeed at producing a period piece like “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” when so much of it is deemed to be politically incorrect today? The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire’s exceedingly polished and purely entertaining answer is to get a comedy […]

by Hendy Weiss read review on Chicago.SunTimes.com The rapid-fire clatter of fast-fingered secretaries pounding away on manual typewriters fills the air. Pastel shirtwaist dresses are all the rage. And both men and women wear hats. More to the point, observing all this from his window-washing perch outside a high-rise Manhattan office building is a young […]

by Alan Bresloff read review on AroundTheTownChicago.com Highly Recommended ***** I am often asked why they don’t create musicals like the good old days? The answer is fairly easy- the people who wrote the music , lyrics and stories are no longer here to create the lovely musicals that have an audience humming and dancing […]

by Colin Douglas read review on ChicagoTheatreReview.com As the overture winds down, a young man in coveralls descends from above. J. Pierrepont Finch, an ambitious young window washer, is discovered reading Shepherd Mead’s instruction book, of the same name, while dangling from scaffolding above Madison Avenue. Narrated by Emily Loesser, the book progresses chapter-by-chapter, charting […]