Chicago Embraces Yank!

ABOVE: The cast of "Yank! A WWII Love Story!" Front (from left): Nate Strain, Matthew Huston, Parker Guidry; Middle row (from left) Xavier Euzarraga, Will Kazda, John Marshall Jr.; Back row (from left) Raymond Goodall, Tommy Thurston, Brian Kulaga, William Dwyer and Marc Prince (far back, in corner).
BELOW: William Dwyer, Matthew Huston, Robert Ollis (on piano), Molly LeCaptain
Photos:  PAUL GOYETTE

YANK! A WWII LOVE STORY
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Directed by David Zak
Choreography by Jenna Schoppe
Music Direction by Robert Ollis

January 11 – February 18, 2018

Previews Thursday, January 11 through Saturday, January 13 at 7:30 pm, Sunday, January 14 at 3:30 pm. Preview tickets are $25.

Regular performances Thursdays – Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 3:30 pm, Wednesday January 31 and February 7 at 7:30 pm.

The Broadway, Pride Arts Center 4139 N. Broadway
Tickets are $40 for reserved seats, $30 general admission. There are discounts for students and seniors. 

TIX: www.pridefilmsandplays.com 

Lovely to have Yank! back in the US for its Chicago premiere! David Zak directs a beautiful production - with gorgeous choreography (Jenna Schoppe) and excellent music direction (Robbert Ollis, who did orchestrations too). Great reviews already and we're "Jeff Recommended!"

Though the text of the musical no longer gives Stu's hometown...he has always been from the Midwest. I hope he's glad to be back!

​- DZ

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CHICAGO SUN TIMES: "An ironic, knowing laugh rippled through the audience Thursday night as the immensely engaging musical “Yank! A WW II Love Story,” received its Chicago premiere by Pride Films and Plays. And that laughter instantly suggested the long, painful history of homosexuals in the U.S. military. The moment occurs when two of the story’s principal characters, who engage in a long and difficult relationship during their service in World War II, dream about cohabiting once they are back home. It is shortly after the war, in the mid 1940s, and one of the men consoles his lover by saying that things will get better in a few years. Of course things did not get officially better until  2010 — after decades of constantly fluctuating policies and, finally, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Hedy Weiss, READ MORE!
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BROADWAYWORLD "Just in time for Valentine's Day, Pride Films and Plays' Chicago premiere of YANK! A WWII LOVE STORY is a heartfelt, lush and romantic production that feels like a grand MGM musical. If ever there was a show to get you out of your house on a cold winter night, this would be it.
"Written by brothers David Zellnik (books and lyrics) and Joseph Zellnik (music), YANK! centers around an old journal found in a second-hand bookstore that documents a forbidden love between two enlisted soldiers during World War II. It dares us all to be brave enough to love openly and honestly." Misha Davenport. READ MORE!

• Full Chicago Sun Times Review, click here!
• Full Broadway World Review, click here!
• For more photos, click here!