BoHo Theatre presents The Life

The Life

Book by Ira Gasman and David Newman, Music by Cy Coleman
Directed by Stephen M. Genovese    Choreographed by Brenda Didier
Music Directed by Jon Steinhagen    Produced by Thomas J. Samorian

Played at Theatre Building Chicago on
June 2, 2007 through July 15, 2007.

Jeff Recommended     BTAA winner

The Life depicted the pulsating life on the Times Square streets
in the late 1970's -where everything had a price, especially sex
-the garish topless bars, the transvestite joints, the hookers who
worked the sidewalks at the bidding of their pimps. Cy Coleman's
(Composer of Sweet Charity, Barnum, City of Angels, and more)
score for The Life is charged with emotionally revealing songs;
the music is the pulse of life itself, as experienced by the
show's characters.

As they got brief tastes of the good life while working the streets of
New York, the personal stories and dreams of Fleetwood, Memphis,
Jojo, Sonja, Queen, Mary, and Lou played as nothing less than shockingly
realistic and delightfully gripping. Musical numbers included “Use What
You Got,” “A Lovely Day to Be Outta Jail,” “Easy Money,” “Greed,”
“My Friend,” and “My Way or the Highway.”

"An impressively ambitious production with
superior acting, & production values"
--Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (Recommended)

"These working girls are worth every penny"
--Kris Vire, TimeOut Chicago (Recommended)

"BoHo's knockout non-Equity cast delivers the jazz-funk
-gospel score with volcanic power and dramatic nuance."
--Albert WIlliams, Chicago Reader (Critics Choice)

"BoHo's production of The Life sings and soars"
--Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times (Recommended)

"Bohemian has established itself as one of the prime venues
in Chicago for non-Equity musical theater performers."
--John Olsen, TalkinBroadway.com (Recommended)