The Hound of the Baskervilles. Photo courtesy of City Lit Theater
High School Musical. Photo by Joan Marcus. Forbidden Broadway: SVU. Photo by Michael Brosilow
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Forbidden Broadway: SVU, Royal George Cabaret, through Nov. 4. Any day now a Chicago cast is to take over for the New York actors who have been broiling Broadway musical excess and pretension with some hilarious sketches. SCM
High School Musical, LaSalle Bank Theatre, through Sept. 2. Jock falls for brain and their cliques clash until they try out for the school show. Sophomoric story, sound-alike songs but TONS of energy and young talent in stage version of Disney TV phenom. JA
The Hound of the Baskervilles, City Lit, Sept. 3-Oct. 14. Don Bender and Will Schutz repeat their roles as Holmes and Watson in City Lit’s second adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle whodunit. Do the Baker Street Irregulars scent a series in the making? MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan