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WHEN:
October 21 - December 4, 2022
Sundays - 3 pm
Mondays - November 21 and 28 at 7:30 pm
Fridays - 7:30 pm
Saturdays - 7:30 pm
WHERE:
City Lit Theatre
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago 60660 (Inside Edgewater Presbyterian Church)
CAST:
Josh Zagoren as Bob Kane
Todd Wojcik as Bill Finger
Adam Bitterman as Kane and Finger’s fellow DC Comics writer Arnold Drake
Annie Hogan as Finger’s wife Portia
Lee Kanne as Jerry Robinson
David Valenta as Shelly Moldoff
Michael Sherwin as Jim Steranko.
Sean Harklerode
Laura Coleman
John Wehrman
Zoe Deprez
Linsey Falls
Dakota Pariset
CREATIVE TEAM:
Written by Mark Pracht
Directed by Terry McCabe
G. "Max" Maxin IV (Set/Lighting/Projections Designer)
Rachel S. Parent (Costume Designer)
Jeff Award Winner Petter Wahlback (Composer)
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...For over 70 years one name was attached to the character that for many defines a “super hero.” That name was Bob Kane, the character is Batman. Unknown to the public at large, another young man, Bill Finger, had envisioned most of the unique elements that came to define the character. While Kane rose to fame and fortune, Finger struggled and suffered…"
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