AUTHOR
Brian Golden
DIRECTOR
Brian Stojak
CAST
- View Roles
Chance Bone
Cecil Burroughs
Emjoy Gavino
Tracey Kaplan
Asleigh LaThrop
LIGHTING
Justin Wardell
SOUND
Claudette Perez
SCENIC DESIGN
Michelle N. Warner
COSTUME DESIGN
Brenda Winstead
STAGE MANAGER
Jon Ravenscroft
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Cooperstown
The Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 N Lincoln Avenue Chicago
It’s the summer of 1962, and Jackie Robinson is about to be the first black inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That doesn’t mean much to Junior Murphy, a black restaurant manager who can’t get a promotion, and whose little sister has her own history-making plans for the big weekend. When a Midwest minor-leaguer comes to town chasing his idol, the collision of race, love and baseball turns a sleepy New York town upside down.
Presented by Theatre Seven of Chicago
Thru - Dec 20, 2009
| Fri, Nov 20: |
8:00pm |
| Sat, Nov 21: |
8:00pm |
| Sun, Nov 22: |
3:00pm |
| Thu, Nov 26: |
8:00pm |
| Fri, Nov 27: |
8:00pm |
| Sat, Nov 28: |
8:00pm |
| Sun, Nov 29: |
3:00pm |
| Thu, Dec 3: |
8:00pm |
| Fri, Dec 4: |
8:00pm |
| Sat, Dec 5: |
8:00pm |
| Sun, Dec 6: |
3:00pm |
| Thu, Dec 10: |
8:00pm |
| Fri, Dec 11: |
8:00pm |
| Sat, Dec 12: |
8:00pm |
| Sun, Dec 13: |
3:00pm |
| Thu, Dec 17: |
8:00pm |
| Fri, Dec 18: |
8:00pm |
| Sat, Dec 19: |
8:00pm |
| Sun, Dec 20: |
3:00pm |
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Price:$14-$18
Show Type: Drama
Box Office: 773-404-7336
Running Time: hr 35mins; no intermission
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Review Round-Up
| Chicago Theater Blog - Somewhat Recommended
"...Far believable is the sweet romance between waitress and baseball stat savant Dylan (Tracey Kaplan, sometimes truly difficult to understand thanks to her machine-gun speed speech) and Huck (Chance Bone), a plain-spoken out-of-towner with a similar passion for America’s Pastime. It’s a lovely subplot, although it wouldn’t hurt to tone down Dylan’s tomboy streak a tad – when she becomes almost physically ill after kissing Huck, she seems more like a prepubescent girl than a young woman."
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ChicagoCritic - Recommended
"...The characters are believable, the plot is hardly new or revolutionary, but there is an honesty from key characters–Burrough’s Junior and Bone’s Huck that gives Cooperstown an empathetic truth that resonates with us. Cooperstown nicely deals with the trickle-down effect of a changing time. This play foreshadows our grappling with race issues as well as the major changes in Major League baseball that finds the Dodgers in LA and the Giants in San Francisco. Golden has a unique way of storytelling."
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This show has been Jeff Recommended*
| *The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed outstanding by the opening night judges of The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee. The entire production is then eligible for nomination for awards at the end of the season.
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