(FORMERLY BURNHAM’S DREAM: THE WHITE CITY)

A musical journey back to an earlier Gilded Age, 1893, Chicago World’s Fair, when architects, workers, immigrants, Blacks, and women vie for inclusion in a great Fair that influences the future of the city and the nation. Featured are Daniel Burnham, chief architect and planner, John Root, his partner, Louis Sullivan, Ida B. Wells, and Bertha Palmer.

 

Staged Reading of Dream City at Theater Wit in Chicago, 2018. Book and lyrics by June Finfer, music and lyrics by Elizabeth Doyle. Chicago Writers’ Bloc New Play Festival. see New Play Exchange for details as well as whitecitymusical.org.