Hoover-Leppen Theater at Center on Halsted (Chicago, IL)
Bailiwick Repertory's new musical, from the creators of Bailiwick's earlier hit Dr. Sex, centers on the fictitious musicologist Dr. Barry Mishkin, who has put together a show composed of scenes and numbers cut from Broadway's classic musicals. Fans of musical theater will delight in hilarious numbers like "Krakatoa" from South Pacific and Mamma Mia outtake "See Ya In Ikea."
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This is a musical review of songs "cut from" classic musicals. Not Forbidden Broadway, but the numbers stand on their own. Fiddler send up worth the price of admission alone. Skewers South Pacific. And the devival (not a misspelling) of Hair is not to be missed. Thankfully, they hadn't acquired outtakes from Spring Awakening.
They deserve an audience! See it!
Nothing special. Rather disappointing.
Went all the way down there paid meter parking & they canceled-not enough people real drag
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Bombs Away! is the new musical from Sally Deering and Larry Bortniker, creators of Bailiwick’s hit Dr. Sex.
Five years ago Larry Bortniker and Sally Deering’s hilarious new musical, Dr. Sex, about the life of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, became a Jeff Award winning hit for Bailiwick Repertory in the old Bailiwick Arts Center. Now Bailiwick is back and on the road with Bombs Away!, Deering and Bortniker’s crazily comic depiction of Dr Barry Mishkin, America’s foremost Broadway musicologist who has amassed an amazing collection of scenes and numbers cut from Broadway’s classic musicals.
In Bombs Away!, Mishkin and his troupe of actors dare to present his collection against the wishes of the writers of the classic musicals and despite a stop order directive from a judge. Selections scheduled to be performed are "Krakatoa" which was the original island setting for South Pacific, "I Own A Nail Salon" from the rarely seen flash-forward ending of Miss Saigon, "Too Fat To Dance" trimmed from A Chorus Line, "I Shake Me Green Shillelagh" which at one point anchored Finian’s Rainbow, and the catchy "See Ya In Ikea" from Mamma Mia. And, of course, very few people remember the title song "Bombs Away!" was Mother Abbess’ initial response to Maria’s question about how to handle the Nazis in Sound of Music.
Of course all the songs and scenes are really the original creations of Bortniker and Deering, and will leave the audience cheering. Bombs Away! is co-directed by David Zak and Elisa Woodruff, with musical direction by Jimmy Morehead, costumes by Jeff Jones, and musical staging by Christopher Pazdernik. Casting will be completed soon.
Since its founding in 1982, Bailiwick Repertory has consistently endeavored to achieve the vision of gifted directors in productions that have been as diverse as their audiences. They have also worked hard to remain accessible, affordable, and responsive to their community. With the director as fulcrum of their artistic process, Bailiwick has been recognized with more than 150 citations, nominations, and recommendations from the Jeff Committee for all aspects of production. They have also received more than three-dozen After Dark Awards, several Black Theater Alliance Awards, and the Pride Series has been inducted into the City of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame and been the recipient of the Torch Award from the Human Rights Campaign, the only theatre in the nation to be so honored.