PicksInSix Review: Blues in the Night-Porchlight Music Theatre
Porchlight’s “Blues” - Oh Me, Oh My!
by Ed Tracy | PicksInSix® Review
There are a lot of places to listen to the blues in Chicago. With all respect to those esteemed establishments, there’s no place I’d rather be right now than at the Porchlight Music Theatre’s revival of the 1980 Tony-nominated musical revue “Blues in the Night” that opened Friday night at Ruth Page Center for the Arts. You will discover five fascinating characters telling their stories in a musical style that is Chicago’s own. Singing and swinging in a 1930s era South Side hotel are: Felicia P. Fields, Donica Lynn, Clare Kennedy and Evan Tyrone Martin, who all mix it up with The Dancing Man, Terrell Armstrong. It’s a joy to behold!
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