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Michigan Avenue - 2016 - Issue 3 - Summer - Art of the City

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THREE, TWO, ONE, GO! From a diva-licious world premiere musical to a sketch-comedy skewering oF the election season, chicago's stages sizzle this summer. By Thomas Connors 66  michiganavemag.com PhotograPhy by youssef shoufan; costumes by Kym barrett © 2015 cirque du soleil; oPPosite: PhotograPhy by Kirsten miccoli (second city); Jenny anderson/Wireimage (ebersole) TORUK - The First Flight promises jaw-dropping visuals. opposite, clockwise from left: The creative team behind Second City's Unelectable You; Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone are set for a formidable face-off in War Paint. Chicago's theaters generally take it easy this time of year, saving their biggest and best new shows for fall. Not this summer. Powerhouses Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole will be tearing it up on the Goodman Theatre stage in War Paint, playing cosmetics queens Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden. "Women of seismic ambition, barbed humor, and boundless ingenuity, they catapulted to the top of their field in an age where business was the exclusive province of men," observes librettist Doug Wright, who is reunited with Grey Gardens star Ebersole for this hotly anticipated premiere. June 28-August 14 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St., 312-443-3800; goodmantheatre.org In an election year that's got the whole world gawking, Second City isn't about to let the run-up to November pass without supplying some comically incisive commentary of its own. And in a twist as unusual as the pre-conven- tion maneuverings this spring, Second City has teamed up with Slate magazine to fashion Unelectable You, a combo of scripted and improvised numbers that will richly mine the shortcomings of our system and the doings of the men and women— including the public and pundits—who make the race for the White House a show like no other. Directed by Second City's Matt Hovde, the unimpeachably irreverent production taps such in-house talents as writers Ed Furman and Marla Caceres, as well as Slate's Chief Political Correspondent and CBS News analyst Jamelle Bouie. July 28-August 28 at UP Comedy Club, 230 W. North Ave., 312-662-4562; unelectableyou.com Just when it seems Cirque du Soleil couldn't possibly come up with another Scene hot test ticket

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