Some highlights of the Forum years were the American premiere of Peter Nichols’ The National Health the world premiere of Boss, a musical based on Mike Royko’s book about Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Pullinsi opened the adjoining Forum Theatre in 1972 in contrast, it was a 425-seat proscenium theater with a lobby bar and a separate dining room. Johnson as a contemporary Macbeth, and Edward Albee’s bleak vision of suburbia, Everything in the Garden. He also presented edgier dramatic fare on occasion, including Barbara Garson’s savage political satire MacBird, with Lyndon B.
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In his Summit theater, with its arena stage and 550 seats, Pullinsi offered a series of long-running musicals, such as Fiddler on the Roof, Man of La Mancha, Zorba, Into the Woods and a critically acclaimed production of Follies. Pullinsi’s new dinner theater in the Windy City prospered enough to enable him to open a new Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in 1964 at 5620 South Harlem Avenue in Summit, Ill. The Washington summer theater operation begun by Pullinsi and D’Angelo in 1959 is the first recorded instance of a dinner theater in the United States.
hotel into a room where customers were entertained by a show while still seated at dinner tables. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse was the Chicago version of a Washington invention by Pullinsi and his friend Anthony D’Angelo, who had turned a banquet hall in a D.C. The new playhouse, which debuted on July 7th of the same year, had 112 seats and was housed in a roadside building owned by Pullinsi’s grandfather. In 1961 William Pullinsi, a young Chicagoan who was studying at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., returned to his hometown to set up and open the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse at 5508 South Archer Avenue, on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Collection consists primarily of promotional materials such as programs, reviews and clippings for musical and comedy productions. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Sarah Zimmerman, 2021įirst dinner-theater in the United States. When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Candlelight Dinner Playhouse / Forum Theatre Records,, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library Please request materials at least 24-hours prior to your research visit to coordinate access. Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use.
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These materials were donated to the Special Collections and Preservation Division by Noreen Heron, Public Relations Director of the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse / Forum Theatre. 3 linear feet in 5 boxes, includes 36 photographsĬhicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S.
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