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After only an extraordinarily rehearsal period of only three weeks, “Chicago” opened before audiences at the Agassiz Theater this past Thursday. Directed by Chris N. Hanley ’07 and musical director Alexander D. Gordon ’06, and co-produced by Hanley and David S. Jewett ’08, the musical is the first rendition of “Chicago” that has shown in the northeast in ten years. The production will run on the Agassiz stage until March...
...both staff and performers have been forced to turn to innovative means of directing, choreographing, and perfecting their show before the first performance next Thursday.Instead of the more typical process of working with the cast to determine the most effective staging for each scene, Director Chris N. Hanley ’07 and Assistant Director Jenny K. Taylor ’07 planned out the blocking for the entire show in January, before even a single actor had auditioned. Most of the choreography was also set in January, although choreographer Megan M. Powell ’08 says that some...
First-round cast-lists go up, and Hanley thinks "Chicago" stands a good chance of winning over its leads because of the show’s natural appeal as well as its fast-moving production schedule...
...Hanley sums up his goals for the final cast of "Chicago" in a reference to his previous work on "Picasso." "When you were watching the scene, it wasn’t a play," he recalls. "People felt like they were looking through a window—it’s the goal of theater, a scene of life." That has been Hanley’s guiding vision throughout the Common Casting process: the hope of making his expansive dreams very real...
With his cast selected at last, Hanley is one step closer to doing just that. Still deeply in debt and pressed for time, he’s passed the first hurdle. But for this ambitious outsider, the business of the show has only begun...