![]() ![]() “Kat” is a new mother and her boyfriend is on the road working with a band. In this play, which could easily be called a “chamber musical” we begin our journey in the kitchen/studio of our heroine, home.” Kat” (a truly wonderful and quite memorable performance by Elisa Carlson). ![]() If one listens closely to the words in the story and song, one can learn a great deal about this explorer, but thanks to “Google” you can learn more than you want to even know. ![]() As we learn from this play, he was indeed a real person, a 20th-century polar explorer. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I never heard of Ernest Shackleton! At least not until it was announced that Porchlight Music Theatre would have the honor and distinction of hosting the Chicago “premiere” of Joe DiPietro’s “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me”, a new musical (music by Brendan Milburn and lyrics by Val Vigoda with orchestrations and additional music by Ryan O’Connell ) on its stage at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. ![]()
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