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With over 20 dance numbers and a somewhat intricate set, the production provides a welcomed challenge for the cast. However, the challenge is something that Seal said that she knows the cast and crew can handle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cChicago\u201d is one you know has a grittier look,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not something we have to achieve Broadway level for and can do with a lower budget. It\u2019s also talent-driven. It\u2019s dancer-driven and vocals driven. And we have talent. We may not have all the money in the world for a huge production, but we do have talent.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seal said she hopes each student comes out of the production feeling like they belong to something bigger than themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope they come away with a sense of belonging,\u201d she said. \u201cI think COVID sort of alienated people and put them in their little hidey holes. And I think it\u2019s easy to forget that we need each other and that if we come together, we can do things that seem really ambitious. This is a really ambitious project for us, but I think they can see we\u2019re better together, and you know, if it gets them off their screens for an hour a day, I think it\u2019s a good thing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She also hopes the audience can gain some independent thinking from attending the musical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of cynicism in this play, which I think is healthy right now in America around the justice system,\u201d explained Seal. \u201cThe play sort of mocks the American justice system. The original author was a reporter disillusioned with the sort of kangaroo courts that were going on. Hopefully, the production will spur people to be politically active and improve their communities through voting and not always necessarily trusting everything they read in the press, but deciding for themselves.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The cast includes Madelyn Hansen, Violet Hendrix, Mars Jones, Alex Torrejon, Michael Higdon, Mason Buck, Sarah Reece, Gloria Johnson, Tucker Johnson, Talia Dillard, Maven Robinson, Abby Troyer, Bethany Farrar, Loralei Petty, Kiauna Lawrence, Julius Welch, Lilliana Johnson, Zachary Sons, Lana Bassel, Jacey VanHooser, Emily Graves, Jude Poe, Giovanni Salazar, and Jennifer Boesch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The show\u2019s production team includes Emily Seal, Tim Chamberlain, Connie Dodson, Gianna Afflerbaugh, Kurt Krause, Tucker Bottum, Eric Petersen, Miriam Lee, and Kristie Gibson. Instrumentalists include John Cook- Banjo, Brian Fleck, Kyle Copeland, Lisa Maurer, Vicki Collinsworth, Tom Maurer, Todd Nichols, Allen Johnson, David Bethea, and John Harris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChicago the Musical\u201d is a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, the script adaptation is by David Thompson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more about the story, visit online concordtheatricals.com\/p\/2746\/chicago. GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Motlow college College Theatre department recently presented the iconic \u201cChicago the Musical\u201d production for its latest production.\u00a0 Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and the crimes on which she reported. The story is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-tullahoma"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/tullahoma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/06\/3-19-1024x683.png\")
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