BY: KT Hawbaker
The wedding’s off! “Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding,” the immersive comedy staged as a wedding ceremony and reception between two Italian-American families, will end its second Chicago run on July 25. While the show first landed in Chicago in 1992 to lukewarm critical reviews, it ran for 16 years, to more than 1 million viewers. After an eight-year hiatus, it was remounted in 2016, receiving acclaim from Tribune theater critic Chris Jones.
“The difference this time around is that the show begins not in some corner of Piper's Alley but in an actual Chicago church — the lovely Resurrection Church on Seminary Avenue in Lakeview, where the congregants are to be commended for their sense of humor,” he writes. “This contrast of dignified locale and silly shtick adds greatly to the amusement, as does the subsequent, conga-like walk down Seminary into the Chicago Theater Works space on Belmont Avenue.”
SOURCE: http://www.chicagotribune.com/
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