🎭 Tim Rhoze’s production for Theo takes full advantage of the cozy Howard Street Theatre to make us feel like we’re riding alongside the Narrator (Jordan DeBose) on the journey from childhood to young adulthood. | ✍️ kerryreid
Fifteen years after its Broadway debut,, Stew’s bildungsroman set to rock and pop songs still has the power to captivate. Tim Rhoze’s production for Theo takes full advantage of the cozy Howard Street Theatre to make us feel like we’re riding alongside the Narrator on the journey from childhood to young adulthood.
I last saw this show in a stellar 2011 production with now-gone Bailiwick Chicago , directed by Lili-Anne Brown and starring JC Brooks of JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound as the Narrator, backed by his band. The Theo band, under the direction of Dr.
Jones, who I’ve mostly seen in comic turns at Factory Theater , is excellent here at embodying earnest passion and self-protective fooling-no-one-but-himself coolness, often at the same time. DeBose makes their Narrator a jovial but rueful guide; their observation that for many people, “adult life is determined by decisions made by a stoned teenager” rings uncomfortably true, particularly if you’re the kind of person who decided to switch majors on a Greyhound bus while ‘shrooming.
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