Marriott Theatre
The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre. Attached to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, the theatre produces an average of five musicals each year, presented in the round, as well as productions aimed at younger audiences. A small, live orchestra provides accompaniment.
History
Founded in December 1975, The Marriott Theatre has presented more than 170 musicals and is currently led by Executive Producer Terry James, Artistic Director Aaron Thielen, and Artistic Director Andy Hite. It is the most subscribed musical theatre in the country.The Marriott Theatre has presented more than 3,000 professional actors in classic American musical theatre, new musicals, and "re-thought" musicals. Broadway has long considered The Marriott Theatre a prime venue for launching shows into the regional market with premiere productions of A Chorus Line, Chess, Baby, Grand Hotel, They're Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl, The First, Miss Saigon, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers and Little Women.
A founding member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, The Marriott Theatre fosters artists in creating new works for the stage. The result has been a string of American and World Premieres including Matador, which subsequently played London's West End; Annie Warbucks, launching a national tour and opening off-Broadway in New York to rave reviews; Phantom of the Country Palace, Grover's Corners, Maury Yeston's History Loves Company, Windy City, The New Yorkers, Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, Peggy Sue Got Married, Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, The All Night Strut, A Fascinatin' Rhythm, Married Alive, The Bowery Boys, For The Boys, and Hero.
Marriott's Theatre for Young Audiences has presented numerous original works as well as classic fairy tales. To date, Marriott's Theatre for Young Audiences has presented more than 45 productions. Every year, these musicals introduce more than 100,000 children to live theatre. In all, The Marriott Theatre attracts more than 400,000 people to Lincolnshire each year.
Shows
1980- Barbara Eden
- Phyllis Diller
- Rodgers & Hart
- The Sound of Music
- Hay Fever
- Cabaret
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Oliver!
- Man of La Mancha
- A Little Night Music
- South Pacific
- They're Playing Our Song world premiere
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Kismet
- Little Me world premiere
- Brigadoon
- Shenandoah
- Give My Regards to Broadway world premiere
- Chicago
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- Windy City
- The Boys from Syracuse
- A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
- Carousel
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Startime world premiere
- A Chorus Line
- Hello, Dolly!
- Camelot
- Baby world premiere
- The King and I
- The Wiz
- 1776
- Grover's Corners world premiere
- My Fair Lady
- Evita
- Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
- Cabaret
- West Side Story
- Peter Pan
- Big River
- 70, Girls, 70
- Matador world premiere
- Grease
- Funny Girl
- Chess, a new version. Directed by David H. Bell and starring Susie McMonagle, David Studwell and Kim Strauss, it featured a reworking of Richard Nelson's New York script. Bell's version has since been performed in Sacramento and Atlanta as well.
- Into the Woods
- Pump Boys and Dinettes
- South Pacific
- Me and My Girl
- Encore world premiere
- Brigadoon
- Sweet Charity
- History Loves Company world premiere
- Anything Goes
- Annie Warbucks premiere
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Arthur premiere
- Grand Hotel
- The Sound of Music
- The First: A Musical premiere
- Oklahoma!
- Hot Mikado special presentation
- Sweeney Todd
- 42nd Street
- Windy City encore presentation
- Phantom of the Country Palace premiere
- The Goodbye Girl special presentation
- La Cage aux Folles
- The Music Man
- Hello, Dolly!
- Ms. Cinderella premiere
- Dreamgirls
- Heartbeats premiere
- Eleanor premiere
- And the World Goes 'Round
- The New Yorkers
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Singin' in the Rain
- The Will Rogers Follies
- Kismet
- Nunsense
- Baby
- Guys & Dolls
- Elmer Gantry premiere
- Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
- Victor/Victoria
- Houdini premiere
- Peggy Sue Got Married premiere
- Phantom
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Pump Boys & Dinettes
- Evita
- The King & I
- Big River
- Mame
- The Taffetas
- Miss Saigon special presentation
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Honk!
- Damn Yankees
- 1776
- Carousel
- Funny Girl
- Cats special presentation
- Hot Mikado encore presentation
- Forever Plaid
- Show Boat
- Annie Get Your Gun
- West Side Story
- The Pajama Game
- Ain't Misbehavin
- Sunset Boulevard special presentation
- Beauty and the Beast special presentation
- Swing!
- Brigadoon
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Footloose
- Oliver!
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- State Fair
- Once Upon a Time in New Jersey premiere
- Into the Woods
- All Night Strut premiere
- Grease
- Shenandoah special presentation
- Married Alive premiere
- The Producers
- Little Women
- Les Misérables
- Nunsense
- The Full Monty
- All Shook Up special presentation
- The Bowery Boys world premiere
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- The Light in the Piazza
- Hairspray
- My Fair Lady
- Fiddler on the Roof
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- Once on This Island
- A Chorus Line
- The Music Man
- Guys and Dolls
- 42nd Street
- SHOUT! The Mod Musical
- For the Boys world premiere
- White Christmas
- Legally Blonde: The Musical
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Hero world premiere
- Dreamgirls
- My One and Only
- Now and Forever: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
- South Pacific
- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
- 9 to 5: The Musical
- Mary Poppins
- Cabaret
- Cats
- Godspell
- On the Town
- The King and I
- La Cage aux Folles
- Anything Goes
- City of Angels
- October Sky
- Sister Act
- Evita
- Man of La Mancha
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Singin' in the Rain
- Mamma Mia!
- She Loves Me
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- Newsies
- Ragtime!
- Oklahoma!
- Murder for Two
- Sweet Charity
- Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
- Million Dollar Quartet
- Footloose
- Darling Grenadine
- Something Rotten!
- Oliver!
- Grease
- Kiss Me, Kate
- And the World Goes 'Round
- West Side Story
- The Sound of Music''