My philosophy of never taking no for an answer was severely tested two years ago when I was trying to get tickets for weeks for the sold-out run of Fiorello! at Timeline Theatre. In the spring of 2006, “no available tickets” really meant “no available tickets”, and no amount of groveling, coercing, begging, flirting, and flattering, or using any of the tricks I usually employ to get my way, could produce a ticket. And so I miserably failed to see the highly-acclaimed production of this seldom-produced classic of American musical theater. I kicked myself even more when a couple of months afterwards, Fiorello! garnered several Jeff Awards including Best Musical. How could I, self-proclaimed musical theater diva, have missed this show? Ugh. So when I heard late last year that Timeline was re-mounting the production in the spring/summer of 2008, I resolved that unless there was a tsunami striking the land-locked Midwest, or a plague of locusts, or a space satellite falling on Damen Avenue (yeah, cougars on the loose in Roscoe Village didn’t count), I was going to be one of the first in line to see the remount. Last week, during the second-to-the-last preview, as I was valiantly trying to restrain myself from singing along to the wonderfully lush “When Did I Fall in Love?”, I decided that the two year wait was definitely worth it.
Apr 23
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