Aurora’s Paramount Theatre, Chicago’s most decorated theater at the 2017 Jeff Awards with the third largest subscriber base in the Nation, will present the first Chicago-area regional staging of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical “Once” to close its 2017-2018 Broadway Series.
“Once” will run April 25 through June 3: Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Thursdays at 7 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m..
Paramount artistic director Jim Corti and music director Tom Vendafreddo are teaming up again to stage this modern-day musical about an Irish busker (Guy), his immigrant fan (Girl) and their eventful week in Dublin as they write, rehearse, and record songs from which their beautiful love story unfolds.
Barry DeBois and Tiffany Topol, both nationally acclaimed actor/musicians, will play the leads.
• Downtown Aurora’s Blues on the Fox will be back for its 22nd year with another killer lineup of longtime favorites and fresh talent Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, at RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway in downtown Aurora.
Aaron Neville, Elle King, Sonny Landreth, Samantha Fish, Toronzo Cannon and Brandon “Taz” Niederauer are today’s blues music masters.
Gates will open Friday, June 15, at 6 p.m. for day one to feature an all-ladies lineup, Kansas City blues rocker Samantha Fish at 7 p.m., followed by Elle King of “Ex’s and Oh’s” at 9 p.m..
Gates will open Saturday, June 16, at 2 p.m. for day two. At 3 p.m., 14-year-old guitar phenom Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, who starred on Broadway in The School of Rock, will take the stage. CTA bus driver turned international blues star Toronzo Cannon will play at 5 p.m. Blues on the Fox will rock into the night with slide guitar legend Sonny Landreth at 7 p.m. and climax at 9 p.m. with three-time Grammy Award winner Aaron Neville.
—Jay Kelly PR
