With its snappy-saucy take on Chicago, The Keegan Theatre shows it knows how to give an audience the ol’ razzle-dazzle. And Keegan has done the durable musical proud. In fact in Keegan’s mounting of the quasi-naughty musical on a bare wood set in a decommissioned church, a case can be made that Chicago’s vaudeville-based storytelling works even better
Somewhere inside Roxie Hart’s first number [of The Keegan Theatre’s new production of Chicago], “Funny Honey,” during which the brazen, fame-craving floozy introduces her sorry sap of a husband Amos, it dawns that this Roxie is bananas. Portrayed by Maria Rizzo with a bold mix of moxie and murderous rage, she’s Roxie unhinged. And she
February 15, 2018: The Keegan Theatre is excited to announce the March 10, 2018 opening of the legendary musical CHICAGO. With a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb, CHICAGO is the winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording, and two
BIG FISH fills every inch of the intimate Keegan Theatre and leaves more than a little magic in its wake. This is a wholesome, feel good musical you can really escape into.
If you are looking for a feel-good show, with great voices and stimulating dance, then Big Fish is for you.
Sure-footed, insightful, and rewarding … Michael Innocenti’s blazing performance as Leo Frank leads Keegan’s exquisite Parade.
The Keegan Theatre presents PARADE, the Tony Award-winning musical by acclaimed playwright Alfred Uhry and composer Jason Robert Brown about a miscarriage of justice in early 20th-century Georgia, when a Jewish outsider was wrongly accused of murder.
The standing ovation Next to Normal received validated an evening of superb quality storytelling that foretells a magnificent run.
“We’ve been waiting to produce NEXT TO NORMAL for years,” says Mark A. Rhea, Keegan’s founder and artistic director. “For obvious reasons – the complexity and truth in the writing of these characters, the intimacy of the storytelling, the intensity and beauty in the music – this is a natural fit for Keegan.”
eegan Theatre kicks off its spring season with the high-octane rock musical American Idiot. Based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album and featuring the hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “21 Guns,” “Holiday” and the hit title track, American Idiot boldly took the American musical in a new direction, capturing not just the sound of a generation, but also the frustrations, fears, dreams and challenges of becoming an adult in the media-saturated, post-9/11 era.
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