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Escape from the Haltsburg Boys Choir

ESCAPE FROM THE HALTSBURG BOYS CHOIR is a coming-of-age story in the tradition of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE CHOCOLATE WAR, and, most closely, STAND BY ME. A world-premiere musical developed by The Ruckus, ESCAPE is created by two Chicago-based artists: playwright Aaron Dean and composer Jason Rico. ESCAPE sends us on a perilous journey with a group of boys on the verge of adulthood. While the boys are not unlike those you might meet on a Chicago street corner today, the world in which they exist is more akin to that of the Brothers Grimm. To our intrepid young escapees, the Tatzelwrm is nearly as terrifying as their heartless choirmaster, the Witch as mysterious as the first pangs of love and lust, and the sweet smell of freedom as lovely as a beautiful young face. ESCAPE combines the fantastical with the all-too familiar, and the result is a painfully honest, surprising, affecting and seriously funny portrayal of the pain and beauty of adolescence and the beginnings of sexual awakening. If that werent enough, theres a sadistic groundskeeper, a hallucinogenic mountain-dwelling invertebrate, shape-shifters, kidnappers, and more testicular humor than you can shake a stick at.