The Producers of ELEANOR'S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH - THE MUSICAL announced today that 23 theaters across the country have signed on to present the streaming production this holiday season.
Read MoreDenise McGowan Tracy's family holiday musical, which premiered live last year, returns in a streaming archived performance.
Read MoreBack in March, many artists were gloomily predicting the end of theater in Chicago, but YOU weren't one of them—were you?
Read MoreAnd now Eleanor’s wish for her home can come safely to your home for the holidays with the reminders of what is truly important. Home. Hope. Heart. And the sprinkle, sparkle, and twinkle of holiday magic. This holiday season we gather together – possibly apart – but connected by Eleanor’s story of hope.
Read MoreThe producers of Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish – The Musical, the family-friendly holiday production available for streaming through December 27, 2020, and Gene & Georgetti, Chicago’s oldest steakhouse, have partnered this holiday season to launch a new Dinner and a Show at HOME experience beginning December 1.
Read MoreFirst the book and now the heartfelt musical. Written by Chicagoan Denise McGowan Tracy, this charming Christmas story is appealing to the young and the young-at-heart and will be streaming from Nov. 27 through Dec. 27.
Read More“Our wish is to keep the magic of the holidays sparkling in the eyes of children no matter what challenges we face this year.”
Read MoreIt takes more than a global pandemic to keep Chicago-area theaters from serving up holiday cheer. And, while the options are limited, certain favorites
Read MoreVirtual (and some in-person) holiday happenings abound this year. Take time to support the theater/dance/music community through myriad presentations.
Read MoreThe Palace Theater is teaming up with Eleanor Management LLC to present “Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish - The Musical”, a critical and commercial success in its 2019 Chicago World Premiere run, for streaming this holiday season.
Read MoreThere’s so much uncertainty and so much that is frightening out there for all of us, and I think Elenaor’s message of hope and family and friends resonates even more in 2020 than it did a year ago.
Read MoreWith Thanksgiving plans changing all across the country, the weekend afterward will still kick off the holiday season.
Read MoreEleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish – The Musical, a critical and commercial success in its 2019 Chicago World Premiere run, will be available for streaming this holiday season!
Read MoreThe Tribune offers our usual guide to seasonal entertainment, albeit most of it online and streaming for 2020.
Read MoreIt’s a win-win-win in that McGowan Tracy gets to sell her show all across the country, the pandemic-stricken arts centers get a cut of the box office without incurring many expenses, and the actors and crew get paid all over again just when they need the cash.
Read MoreOh what fun… it was to watch Gold Coaster Denise McGowan Tracy’s lovely kiddie masterpiece, “Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish—The Musical,” from the comfort of my own home during a recent virtual press screening.
Read MoreFeaturing eight songs from composer/lyricist Kathleen Butler-Duplessis and Tracy, the musical offers heartwarming lessons on friendship and family, among other things. Tracy shared more via email.
Read MoreIn the holiday production of Eleanor's Very Merry Christmas Wish, now playing in Lincoln Park's Greenhouse Theater, Plainfield North alum Sydney Swanson plays a six-year-old girl with big hopes for friends and the future. It's a fitting first professional gig for the young actress, considering she said she's wanted to act on the stage since she was almost six years old herself.
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