We’ve described over 50 productions at the proscenium-style Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, IL:

A full list of Drury Lane productions we described is available here.
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Shows
Here are a few samples of our pre-show narratives for selected productions:
Nunsense
Get ready to laugh the summer away with nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken. This beloved revue will have you in stitches as the five sisters stage a variety show fundraiser filled with outrageous musical numbers and zany comedy.
Across the back wall of the auditorium stage, a pair of simple, open metal staircases at the left and right lead up to a narrow, 20-foot long metal walkway between them. Between the two staircases, large, capital letters across the front of the walkway spell the word “Grease.” A large black circle with a small hole in the center appears at the end of the word, above a jukebox below on the diner floor.
The Little Mermaid
Dive beneath the waves with Ariel, a young mermaid with a captivating voice and an insatiable curiosity, as she defies her father and makes a daring deal for the chance to create the world of her dreams on land.
On the ocean floor, the ruins of large, stone castle walls appear at the back and along the sides of the stage, with curved, stone arch doors and windows. Colorful rays of sunlight stream down through the water from the unseen surface high above, in shades of violet, green, blue, and yellow. Actors unfurl long, wide, shimmering translucent sheets as they dance and move about the stage, reflecting and bending the light of the watery illusion.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
In the heat of the South under the gaze of patriarch Big Daddy, the expectations of marriage and family spoil. A birthday party brings a family’s skeletons to the surface as each one fights over the bones.
The action takes place over the course of a summer evening in a run-down plantation home in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. A Queen bed with a brass head and foot rail sits in the middle of a circular, distressed and damaged oak wood floor covering the stage. An eight-foot wide steel and glass chandelier hangs high above the bed. A couple ivory-colored end tables with elaborate scrollwork legs sit on either side of the bed at its head, each with a bedside table lamp with a fringed, ivory-colored lampshade. An overstuffed, open back, salmon and ivory-striped upholstered couch with a couple matching cylindrical pillows sits at the foot of the bed.
Guys and Dolls
Set in Depression-era Times Square, Guys and Dolls tells the story of a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them.
As we wait for the show to begin, a marquee filled with curls, swirls, and stars with a single, central thread of traveling lights hangs frames the large proscenium stage. Across the front of a closed, sheer scrim curtain, the words “Guys and Dolls” appear in large, broad capital letters, becoming part of the marquee with a single line of yellow bulbs inside each letter.
Audio-Described Drury Lane productions include:
- 39 Steps
- A Chorus Line
- A Christmas Carol
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Always, Patsy Cline
- An American in Paris
- And Then There Were None
- Beautiful
- Beauty and the Beast
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Chicago
- Cinderella
- The Color Purple
- Crazy for You
- The Da Vinci Code
- Dial M for Murder
- Deathtrap
- Evita
- Father of the Bride
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Grease
- Guys and Dolls
- Hazel
- Holiday Inn
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- The King & I
- The Little Mermaid
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Mamma Mia
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Nunsense
- On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan
- Peter and the Star Catcher
- Ring of Fire
- Saturday Night Fever
- Sister Act
- Smokey Joe’s Café
- South Pacific
- Steel Magnolias
- White Christmas
- You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
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