The Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace Theatre has announced its 2008-2009 season, which will begin with the Tony Award-winning musical Mame, October 9-December 21, with an opening October 16. Based on the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, Mame features music and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Jerry Herman. It tells the story of a forward-thinking socialite and her nephew, Patrick, and spans the era of the Great Depression to World War II.
The season will also include Miss Saigon, by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, December 31-March 8, opening January 8. The musical, an update of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, is the story of a romance between Chris, an American Marine serving as an Embassy guard in Saigon on the eve of the city’s fall to the Communist forces in May 1975, and Kim, a young Vietnamese woman orphaned by the war and forced to work in a Saigon night club/brothel.
Drury Lane Oakbrook is currently presenting The Boys from Syracuse, August 7-September 28. With director and choreographer David Bell.
For more information, visit www.drurylaneoakbrook.com.
