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Movement speaks in 'Illinoise,' a new kind of Broadway musical: Review
- Before making it to Broadway, "Illinoise" enjoyed sold-out runs off-Broadway at the Park Avenue Armory and in Chicago.
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Set to the songs of Sufjan Stevens, it is a transporting and soul-stirring experience.
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Review: 'Illinoise,' based on Sufjan Stevens' concept album, clears a fresh Broadway path
Choreographer and director Justin Peck brings an athletic grace to a new, category-defying Broadway musical spun from a Sufjan Stevens album. The singing? It's gorgeous
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‘Illinoise’ Review: A Thrilling, Genre-Defying Broadway Musical Brings the Sufjan Stevens Album to Lyrical Life
Sufjan Stevens’s indie folk concept album “Illinois” (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullman cars, the World’s Fair of 1893, and the Lincoln/Douglas debates) with Biblical allusions and feelings of shame and loss. This multifaceted mix, often stirring and fascinating to listen to, …
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Broadway Spring 2024: Sufjan Stevens ‘Illinoise’ & All Of Deadline’s Reviews
April on Broadway, to mangle a phrase from a showtune classic, is bustin’ out all over with no fewer than 14 new plays and musicals set to open before the April 25 Tony Award eligibility cutoff date. So crowded are the final weeks of the 2023-24 theater season that three days each will see the …
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‘Illinoise’ Theater Review: Justin Peck Transforms Sufjan Stevens’ Concept Album Into a Soaring Rush of Late Adolescent Experience
Co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, the dance musical is a transcendent distillation of youth in all its pain and glory.
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Vocalists Announced For Sufjan Stevens’ Musical ‘Illinoise’
Shara Nova, who recorded with Stevens on the 2005 record, is among the singers bringing the album to the stage
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2024 Tony Awards slugfest: ‘Illinoise’ throws musical predictions into disarray [WATCH]
I thought I was safe to boldly pronounce my initial 2024 Tony Awards predictions, but then Sufjan Stevens appeared to stomp all over them. As David Buchanan and I convened to discuss where we thought the musical nominations were headed this season, news broke that Off-Broadway’s dreamy dance show “Illinoise” will transfer to the St. …
