New Faces Sing Broadway 1961 presented by Porchlight Music Theatre at Online Stream

New Faces Sing Broadway 1961

Online Stream

Porchlight Music Theatre's New Faces Sing Broadway series returns, taking audiences on a musical journey from the start to the finish of an entire Broadway season in 90 minutes. Jeff Award-winning actor Kelvin Roston, Jr. is the host and introduces the audience, virtually, to the next generation of Chicago music theatre artists while serving as the guide to the stars, songs and stories of the 1961 Broadway season.

Presented by Porchlight Music Theatre

Thru - May 16, 2021

Show Times TBA

Price: $25 - $50

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 773-777-9884

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Around The Town Chicago - Recommended

"...This is a rather heady retrospective of the year 1961 in song that successfully brings back the flavor of the era. The show takes us to a very different America: a time period after the Korean War and before Vietnam, where the nation faced the realities of the Cold War and the threat of nuclear attack. Concerns over love and life in the office made "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" the top hit of 1961-62, with 1,417 performances, and belies an era of relative affluence in U.S. history (at least for the white middle class) by personalizing the rather impersonal corporate culture that sprang up during the 1950s. When John F. Kennedy became President in 1961, his Administration was thought to usher in a time of hope and promise, where bold initiatives to reform society in the area of civil rights and equal housing and education seemed achievable. However, after his assassination in 1963, the brief period of his Presidency was later nicknamed Camelot, after the 1961 Tony Award-winning musical."

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