Lookingglass Theatre Company announces that the World Premiere of Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon will be postponed until the fall due to the current surge in COVID-19 cases for the health and safety of our audience, actors, staff, and crew.
Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon, a musical romp featuring original country music and folk songs, is composed and written by Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee in his playwriting debut. Postponing this new work allows Lookingglass to continue nurturing both playwright and text by supporting their development and to secure a launch point that also gives the audience an opportunity to return to the theater without hesitation.
“Our Artistic Associate, Matt Yee, has been working on this show for years...we want to do it at a time when this fantastic musical can get the audiences it deserves,” says Artistic Director Heidi Stillman. “We also want our artists, creative team, and staff to be safe while creating the show.”
Lookingglass Theatre is an ensemble-based company composed of generative artists and is choosing to use this time to uphold the intensive, often unseen, but critically important process of supporting artists who are developing work for the future. Over the next few months, Lookingglass will proceed with gglassworks, a play development program for new works, and continue to expand the short film project, 50 Wards: A Civic Mosaic. 50 Wards is an ambitious multimedia series that weaves a dazzling tapestry of hometown Chicago experiences, the first five of which are available to watch for free on their website.
Watch 50 Wards: A Civic Mosaic: lookingglasstheatre.org/50wards
Beginning in May, the awe-inspiring production of Lookingglass Alice is returning after a seven-year hiatus for a new generation (artist and audience) to rediscover. Tickets are on sale now, and we are looking forward to welcoming audiences back to experience “spectacular… pure, unadulterated magic” (Chicago Sun-Times).
Get tickets to Lookingglass Alice: lookingglasstheatre.org/event/lookingglass-alice-2022
Learn More About the Upcoming Shows
Lookingglass Alice
- Adapted and Directed by Ensemble Member David Catlin
- From the Works of Lewis Carroll
- Produced in Association with The Actors Gymnasium
- Beginning May 2022
Lookingglass Alice returns for a circus-infused trip down the rabbit hole and deep into your heart. The New York Times calls this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories “eye-catching entertainment,” the Chicago Tribune lauds it as “ingenious,” and The Chicago Sun-Times hails the production as “pure, unadulterated magic.”
This signature Lookingglass production, adapted and directed by Ensemble Member David Catlin (The Little Prince, Moby Dick), has toured the country, enchanting audiences of all ages, painted each time with a fresh coat of magic. The awe-inspiring production comes back home to Lookingglass Theatre for a new generation to discover.
Age recommendation 5+
World Premiere
Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon
- A New Musical
- Composed and Written by Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee
- Directed by Amanda Dehnert
- Fall 2022
Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitched…and they’re embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. They’re First Generation Asian American Renegades. In love. And on the run.
Featuring original country western and folk songs, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon tracks a young couple as they rev it down quintessentially American highways and across stereotypic borders, fleeing expectation and trawling up trouble along the way.
Directed by Amanda Dehnert (Peter Pan (A Play), Eastland), Artistic Associate Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere musical romp gives a nod to America’s past, takes tally of its present, and blows its future wide open.
Age recommendation 13+
About the Artists
David Catlin (he/him) (Writer and Director of Lookingglass Alice, Ensemble Member) is a founding Ensemble Member, actor, writer, director, and former Artistic Director of Lookingglass. David adapted and directed Moby Dick, which debuted at Lookingglass in summer 2015, toured nationally, and played again at Lookingglass in summer 2017. Other Lookingglass writing credits include Icarus, Her Name Was Danger, and The Idiot (Jeff Award for Adaptation). Most recently, he directed Mr. Dickens’ Hat at Northlight Theatre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s original, for Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
Additional Lookingglass directing credits include: The Little Prince, Black Diamond (co-director), Metamorphosis, and West. Lookingglass acting credits include Hard Times, The Arabian Nights, Our Town, Argonautika, La Luna Muda, The Odyssey, and The Jungle. David is an Artistic Associate with The Actors Gymnasium and serves on the acting faculty at Northwestern University.
Amanda Dehnert (she/her) (Director of Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon) returns to Lookingglass. She most recently shared composing credit with the amazing Andre Pluess on The Steadfast Tin Soldier; prior to that she was part of Eastland: A New Musical (Director/Orchestrator), and Peter Pan (A Play) (Director/Writer). Chicago credits: co-composing the World Premiere of Shining Lives (a musical) (Northlight Theatre), creating vocal arrangements for Iphigenia In Aulis (Court Theatre/Getty Villa), both with Pluess, as well as directing Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and her original musical, The Verona Project (American Music Theatre Project). Regional work: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Director/ Co-composer, with Andre Pluess), Timon Of Athens (Director/ Composer), Into The Woods (Director/ Conductor), Julius Caesar (Director/ Adaptor) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the World Premiere productions of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (Director, McCarter Theatre; Arena Stage; Philadelphia Theatre Company); Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Director, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Primary Stages); the revival productions of My Fair Lady (Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Virginia Stage Company; Actors Theatre Of Louisville; Cleveland Play House; Trinity Rep); and The Fantasticks (South Coast Repertory; Arena Stage; Long Wharf Theatre; Trinity Rep). Amanda also directed West Side Story (Carnegie Hall at The Knockdown Center) conducted by Marin Alsop, Richard III (The Public Theater Mobile Shakespeare Unit), and Cabaret (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada). Amanda is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University.
Matthew C. Yee (he/him) (Composer and Writer of Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon, Lookingglass Theatre Artistic Associate) has been a part of the Chicago theatre community since 2013. Previous Lookingglass credits include Treasure Island and Moby Dick. Recent credits include Almost Famous The Musical (Old Globe Theatre), Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens), and Once (Paramount Theatre). TV credits include Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, AMC’s 61st Street, and reoccurring on Empire Season 3. In addition to being an actor, Matthew is a musician, playwright, and filmmaker, having contributed multiple short stop-motion films to Lookingglass’ annual gala.
Thank You to Our Season Sponsors
- BMO Harris Bank
- Hearn
- HMS Media
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
- Waldorf Astoria Chicago
- Steve and Lorrayne Weiss
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About Health and Safety
The health and safety of our audiences, artists, and staff is a top priority. Lookingglass is part of a coalition of more than 65 performing arts venues across Chicagoland implementing unified COVID-19 Vaccination and Mask Requirements for indoor performances. View Lookingglass Theatre’s current Health and Safety Guidelines.
About Accessibility
Lookingglass Theatre offers ground floor and balcony seats for all patrons who use a wheelchair or a scooter, or patrons who cannot walk stairs. Assistive listening devices and large print programs are available at the patron’s request.
About Lookingglass Theatre Company
Inventive. Collaborative. Transformative. Lookingglass Theatre Company, recipient of the 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award, was founded in 1988 by eight Northwestern University students. Now in its 34th Season, Lookingglass is home to a multi-disciplined ensemble of artists who create story-centered theatrical work that is physical, aurally rich and visually metaphoric. The Company, located in Chicago’s landmark Water Tower Water Works, has staged 70 world premieres, received 161 Joseph Jefferson Award Nominations, and produced work all across the United States. In 2016, Lookingglass received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions and in 2017, was the recipient of the League of Chicago Theatres’ Artistic Achievement Award.
Lookingglass continues to expand its artistic, financial, and institutional boundaries under the guidance of Artistic Director Heidi Stillman, Executive Director Rachel L. Fink, a 29-member artistic ensemble, 22 artistic associates, an administrative staff, and a dedicated board of directors led by Chair Diane Whatton.
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