By popular demand, the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) welcomes back The Barricade Boys at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 21. Says MAC director Diana Martinez: “After last year’s concert I was deluged by MAC fans saying The Barricade Boys were the best thing they’d ever seen on the MAC stage and pleading with me to bring them back…so we did!”
The Barricade Boys feature four award-winning vocalists – Scott Garnham, Kieran Brown, Craig Mather and Simon Schofield all “Les Misérables” alumni – performing a wonderfully entertaining music mix ranging from pop to opera. Between them, The Barricade Boys have an impressive list of West End credits, including “Mamma Mia,” “Wicked,” “Billy Elliot,” “The Book Of Mormon,” “The Sound Of Music,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Phantom Of The Opera” and more.
Broadway World calls The Barricade Boys "Four of the most talented singing actors a person could hope to see in a solo concert, let alone as a tight-harmonizing, boy band dancing singing group;” and TheReviewsHub.com says, “It’s rare to find a chemistry that ignites the stage in the way The Barricade Boys do… this is pure vocal harmony heaven.” This year’s MAC concert promises to include some new works not yet seen by MAC fans plus audience favorites guaranteed to bring everyone to their feet.
Tickets
The McAninch Arts Center presents The Barricade Boys at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 at the MAC, 425 Fawell Blvd, on the campus of College of DuPage. Tickets are $60-$70. Availability is limited. For tickets visit www.AtTheMAC.org or call 630.942.4000. The McAninch Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 6 p.m. and two hours prior to performance.
About the MAC
McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage is located 25 miles west of Chicago near I-88 and I-355. It houses three indoor performance spaces (780-seat proscenium Belushi Performance Hall; 186-seat soft-thrust Playhouse Theatre; and a versatile black box Studio Theatre), outdoor Lakeside Pavilion, plus the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and classrooms for the college’s academic programming. The MAC has presented theater, music, dance and visual art to more than 1.5 million people since its opening in 1986 and typically welcomes more than 100,000 patrons from the greater Chicago area to more than 230 performances each season.
The mission of the MAC is to foster enlightened educational and performance opportunities, which encourage artistic expression, establish a lasting relationship between people and art, and enrich the cultural vitality of the community. For more information about the MAC, visit www.AtTheMAC.org or @AtTheMAC on Facebook and Instagram.
Support for the McAninch Arts Center is provided in part by Brookdale Senior Living Glen Ellyn, Anonymous, College of DuPage Foundation, Sullivan Taylor Family Trust, DuPage Foundation, Ball Horticultural, Frank Modruson & Lynne Shigley, Enjoy Illinois, Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Media Sponsor is WDCB 90.9 FM. Hotel Sponsor is DoubleTree by Hilton Lisle/Naperville.
Established as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization in 1967, the College of DuPage Foundation raises monetary and in-kind gifts to increase access to education and to enhance cultural opportunities for the surrounding community. For more information about the College of DuPage Foundation, visit www.foundation.cod.edu or call 630.942.2462.