The Retsina Group and Stockyards Theatre Project present the new musical, Nobody Likes Retsina, in a limited run beginning February 28, 2011 at the Parthenon Restaurant in Chicago’s Greek Town at 314 S. Halsted Street.
Nobody Likes Retsina, book by Barbara Georgans, music by Philip Seward, lyrics by Jon Steinhagen, is a musical comedy about two Greek American brothers who make bootleg retsina in Chicago during Prohibition. Retsina is a Greek wine that has an “acquired” taste. Unfortunately no one has acquired a taste for it. In order to get out of the bootleg business, the brothers hatch a plan to find wealthy husbands for their all-American daughters. The two headstrong brides-to-be have other plans. The audience enjoys the escapades in the show while “attending” two engagement parties for the girls, and also enjoy a three-course family-style dinner featuring signature dishes of the Parthenon Restaurant.
Performances of Nobody Likes Retsina will run Monday and Tuesday evenings at 6:45 PM in the banquet room of the Parthenon Restaurant. The restaurant is located at 314 S. Halsted St. Chicago just north of the Eisenhower express way and the blue line CTA stop at UIC. Tickets are $65 and include dinner, dessert, a glass of Retsina and valet parking. Group admissions are $55-60. Tickets are available at http://www.stockyardstheatreproject.org/ or for group sales visit or call Group Theater Tix http://www.grouptheatertix.com/index.htm. (312) 423-6612 or (866) 809-3075
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Chicago writers Barbara Georgans, Philip Seward and Jon Steinhagen met and began their collaboration of Nobody Likes Retsina at the New Tuners Musical Theatre Workshop at Theatre Building Chicago. The musical has had several successful stage readings and presentations. The presentation at the Parthenon Restaurant tests the waters in Chicago’s Greek Town with the idea of additional presentations in the Greek American communities in Detroit, MI and Astoria, NY.
Nobody Likes Retsina is music directed by Philip Seward, staged by Joan Mazzonelli, choreographed by Natalja Aicardi, and features Denise Blank, Kellie Cundiff, Debbie DiVerde, Amy Malcom, Amanda Grace Marcheschi, Brandon Morehead, Benjamin G. Powell, Steven Price, Erin Robinson, Edward Rutherford and Peter Vamvakas. The production team is James V. Ogden, scenic design, Dayna Shrader, lighting design, Cherish Varley, costume design.
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