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Book by Peter Stone. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Direction by Artistic Director Michael Weber, Choreography by Florence Walker Harris and Music Direction by David Fiorello, starring Meghan Murphy and Brandon Dahlquist. Based on the classic film starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, a television interviewer and a newspaper cartoonist get into a public battle over their respective professions, and, of course, fall in love, marry and experience more career conflicts. This Tony Award-winning musical starred Lauren Bacall in its original Broadway run. Featuring the hits: “One of the Boys,” “Sometimes a Day Goes By” and “The Grass is Always Greener.”
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Michael Weber
Director
Previously at Porchlight: Sunday in the Park with George, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard and Gypsy
Michael Weber is a nationally recognized, award-winning director, producer, actor and educator. Previous Porchlight shows include Sunday in the Park with George, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard and Gypsy. He recently directed the Off-Broadway and European premieres of Call Me Elizabeth written by and starring Kayla Boye as “Elizabeth Taylor.” Under his artistic leadership, Porchlight Music Theatre was awarded Chicago’s Jeff Award for “Best Production” six times. He previously served as artistic director for the inaugural season of Chicago’s Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place (now Broadway in Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse) and at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana. The recipient of two Joseph Jefferson Awards, he has been nominated for nine awards and he wrote and directed 14 Joseph Jefferson Awards ceremonies (2006-2018). Weber’s regional acting credits include The Merry Widow (starring Renée Fleming) at Lyric Opera, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy (both starring Patti LuPone) at Ravinia Festival, The Winter’s Tale and Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and more. He is author of the play WAR of the WELLeS (about Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast) and he is a longtime pledge host for PBS station WTTW channel 11.