2009-2010 Season

A musical revue of favorite songs for a fun, toe-tapping evening.

June 18-August 15

His music is everywhere! Songs from The Wizard of Oz and 400 more.  Get Happy, Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic are just a few in this revue.
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CHESS
A Cold War rock musical.

M
arch 7-April 25

Produced in Chicago for the first time in 20 years.  Featuring several Theo Ubique award winners.
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Man of La Mancha

October 18-November 22, 2009
Extended through December 20

Not your daddy’s version.  Set in a contemporary mental institution.
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The Taming of the Shrew

August 28-October 4, 2009

A new take on Shakespeare. . .in commedia dell’arte form.
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Production History

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Updated:  June 2010

With the production of Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre has produced 32 shows since it was founded in 1997 and incorporated in 2004.

*Indicates Artistic Award or Nomination

2009-2010 Season

  • August 30-October 4, 2009 – *Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
  • October 18-November 22, 2009 – *Man of La Mancha (book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh)
  • March 7-April 25, 2010 – *Chess (lyrics by Tim Rice, music by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson)
  • June 18-August 8, 2010 – Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harold Arlen, Truman Capote, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, Leo Robin, Billy Rose, and Jack Yellen with additional lyrics by Mary Bracken Phillips)

Past Productions

  • 2009  Remount of *Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers of the Night (Arnold Johnson, translator, and Fred Anzevino) at Theatre at the Lake
  • 2009 *Evita (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
  • 2008 *Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You Tell Your Friends (Joanne Koch, Owen Kalt and Ilya Levinson)
  • 2008 *Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers of the Night (Arnold Johnson, translator, and Fred Anzevino)
  • 2007  Remount of *Side by Side by Sondheim (Steven Sondheim) at Theatre at the Lake
  • 2007 *Cabaret (John Kander and Fred Ebb)
  • 2007   The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman)
  • 2006 *Side by Side by Sondheim (Steven Sondheim)
  • 2006 *Flora the Red Menace (John Kander and Fred Ebb)
  • 2005   The Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones)
  • 2005 *A Jacques Brel Revue (Arnold Johnston translator)
  • 2004 *Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters)
  • 2004 *A Kurt Weill Review (Kurt Weill)
  • 2004   Richard the Third (William Shakespeare)

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre/Production History/2010, updated June 2010

  • 2003   Wordplay(s) (Melanie Tem and Gertrude Stein)
  • 2003   Alfred the Great (Israel Horovitz)
  • 2003 *Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Kurt Vonnegut)
  • 2002 *The Devil’s Disciple (George Bernard Shaw)
  • 2002 *Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton)
  • 2002   The Aggressor (Tommy Beaver)
  • 2001 *Sexual Perversity in Chicago and All Men Are Whores (David Mamet)
  • 2001   Heartland Festival of Short Plays: The Lottery (Brainerd Duffield) and Sweet Eros (Terrence McNalley), The Stronger (August Strindberg)
  • 2001   Lion in the Streets (Judith Thompson)
  • 2000 *Betrayal (Harold Pinter)
  • 2000   The People, Yes! (Carl Sandberg)
  • 1999   The Lady’s Not for Burning (Christopher Fry)
  • 1998   The People, Yes! (Carl Sandberg)
  • 1997   Crime on Goat Island (Ugo Beti)