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Showtune Mondays at Sidetrack Video Bar(0)

March 9, 2010

While many Chicago bars are closed on Monday nights or hardly doing any business, there is one spot that packs them in. No, it’s not for Monday Night Football or a Cubs game. They come to Sidetrack Video Bar (3349 North Halsted Street) for Showtune Mondays.

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A Conversation with STEPHEN SONDHEIM A Life in the Theater

Sondheim shared his own memories of his early days with Oscar Hammerstein II who taught him the art of theatre with emphasis on lyric writing. I heard many new stories particularly about how Sondheim, at age 17 was involved with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s production of Allegro in 1947.

Tommy Gun’s Garage Roaring Twenty’s Speakeasy

While in Chicago, You must see, Tommy Gun’s Garage, “Chicago’s only original Speakeasy Dinner Theater”. You’re an actor too when you come to Tommy Gun’s Garage.

Theatre Etiquette for the 21st Century

Turn off your pagers and/or cell phones BEFORE the show starts. And NO TEXT MESSAGING during the show. And DO NOT CHECK your VOICE MESSAGES and/or TEXT MESSAGES during the show. Maybe we need to do what some London theatre have started doing—making everyone check-in their cell phones upon entering the theatre.


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