Illinoise

Illinoise – Winner of 1 Tony Award:

Best Choreography – Justin Peck

Winner of 1 Drama Desk Award:

Outstanding Choreography – Justin Peck

Winner of 1 Outer Critics Circle Award:

Outstanding Choreography (Broadway or Off-Broadway) – Justin Peck

Winner of 1 Chita Rivera Award:

Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show

Illinoise is a critically acclaimed dance-driven musical adapted from a much-loved 2005 album by Sufjan Stevens opens on Broadway April 24th and is a collaboration between celebrated choreographer Justin Peck and the Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.

Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Justin Peck expands upon Sufjan Stevens’s acclaimed concept album Illinois in a bold new music-theater production featuring virtuosic dancers, singers, and musicians and a narrative crafted with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.

Peck reimagines the album as a music-theater production that combines dance, folk storytelling, and live music with a cast of dancers, singers, and musicians, featuring new arrangements by composer and pianist Timo Andres ranging in style from folk and indie rock to ambient electronics to joyous marching bands. Peck and Drury’s coming-of-age story takes audiences on a journey from the American countryside to the urban streets of New York City, the edges of the cosmos, and beyond.

Performances begin on April 24th which acts as the engagement’s opening night at The St. James Theatre, 246 W 44th St, NYC. This is a limited run with a scheduled closing date of August 10th. Tickets are on sale now.

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The reviews for Illinoise were incredible!

“With the verbal dials turned way down, and the physical and musical ones way up, the calibration of information, from dreamy to piercing, is PRETTY MUCH PERFECT.” The New York Times
“LUSH WITH THEATRICALITY.” The Washington Post
“ILLINOISE THROWS OPEN A WINDOW TO THE COSMOS.” New York Magazine
“UNDENIABLY BEAUTIFUL.” TheaterMania
“A TRIBUTE TO SUFJAN STEVENS’S BRILLIANCE.” The Washington Post