Upcoming Events at Drury Lane Theatre
Thu Aug 28, 8:00 PM - Fri Aug 29, 12:00 PM
100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Community: West Town
Description
Drury Lane Theatre Continues its 30th Anniversary Season with the Award Winning New Play: THE GAME'S AFOOT
Event Details
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. — Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, continues its landmark 30th anniversary season with the winner of “Best Play” at the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Awards, THE GAME’S AFOOT, previewing August 28, opening Thursday, September 4 at 8 p.m., and running through October 19, 2014. The cast is led by Derek Hasenstab (Broadway National Tour of The Lion King; The Foreigner and I Hate Hamlet at Drury Lane Theatre; Oedipus Complex at the Goodman Theatre; and Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago Shakespeare Theater) as “William Gillette” and nine-time Jeff Award-winner Alene Robertson (National Tour of Annie, Mame at Drury Lane Theatre, and The Full Monty and Hello, Dolly! at Marriott Theatre) as “Martha Gillette.” THE GAME’S AFOOT is written by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, The Fox on the Fairway, Crazy for You, and Moon Over Buffalo) and directed by Drury Lane Theatre Artistic Director William Osetek (Young Frankenstein and next to normal at Drury Lane Theatre).
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow Broadway cast-members to his lavish Connecticut mansion for an elegant Christmas Eve dinner party and weekend of revelry. When one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in the isolated house quickly turn dangerous. As the gentle holiday snow quickly turns into a blizzard, it is up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears in this witty, suspenseful caper.
The cast also includes Jeff Award winner Rod Thomas (Next to Normal and Big at Drury Lane Theatre and Little Shop of Horrors at Theatre at the Center) as “Felix Geisel,” Kathy Logelin (five seasons with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival) as “Madge Geisel,” Tempe Thomas (Buddy Holly and Seussical the Musical at Drury Lane Theatre, Grease at Marriott Theatre, Candide at the Goodman Theatre) as “Aggie Wheeler,” Rob Ri
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow Broadway cast-members to his lavish Connecticut mansion for an elegant Christmas Eve dinner party and weekend of revelry. When one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in the isolated house quickly turn dangerous. As the gentle holiday snow quickly turns into a blizzard, it is up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears in this witty, suspenseful caper.
The cast also includes Jeff Award winner Rod Thomas (Next to Normal and Big at Drury Lane Theatre and Little Shop of Horrors at Theatre at the Center) as “Felix Geisel,” Kathy Logelin (five seasons with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival) as “Madge Geisel,” Tempe Thomas (Buddy Holly and Seussical the Musical at Drury Lane Theatre, Grease at Marriott Theatre, Candide at the Goodman Theatre) as “Aggie Wheeler,” Rob Ri
