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Chicago Sun Times - Highly Recommended. It's the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted in Soon after Stu meets Artie – an unapologetically queer reporter who pulls some strings and gets Stu assigned as his photographer, and also shows Stu a glimpse of the gay world that thrived just beneath the surface of the US Army in the s The music of Yank!.

Yank! Suffused with songs (swing, big band, boogie-woogie) it explores what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together. has a score that pays homage to the s and explores what it means to be a man, and what.

In Chicago, you can anticipate the trouble ahead, but the production goes light on the forces of intolerance. I did not see either New York production, but they were reportedly more of that vein. Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended. Suffused with songs (swing, big band, boogie-woogie), it explores what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together.

A World War II Love Story offers a talented ensemble cast, swift action and upbeat music played by an exemplary six-piece orchestra under gifted musical director Robert Ollis. Pride Films and Plays will be able to run this one as long as they wish to do so.

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It's the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted inand who - like most guys - spends Basic Training wrestling with fears of whether he "has what it takes" to make it in the Army. There is more interest here in the celebration of the resistance.

Veteran director David Zak's energetic production of Yank! Suffused with songs swing, big band, boogie-woogieit explores what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together. YANK!

Windy City Times - Recommended. With the rainbow flag now planted over Iwo Jima, revisionism was never such fun. Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended. But unlike most guys, Stu also falls in love with a fellow Private, a handsome All-American guy named Mitch.

And that laughter instantly suggested the long, painful history of homosexuals in the U. Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended. The Pride Arts Center - formerly known as both the Profiles Theatre and the National Pastime Theatre - is the right, retro space for this show, an easy joint wherein to summon the era and its ghosts.

Yank! YANK!, originally produced off-Broadway inis a love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks and to s Broadway. "tells the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted for World War II inand becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal 'for and by the servicemen.' Yank!

An ironic, knowing laugh rippled through the audience Thursday night as the immensely engaging musical "Yank! When Stu strikes a friendship with Artie - an unapologetically queer reporter for Yank Magazine, Artie shows Stu a glimpse of the gay world that thrived just beneath the surface of the US Army in the Show Type: Drama.

Theatre By Numbers - Recommended.

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A WWII Love Story is a musical with book and lyrics by David Zellnik and music by his brother Joseph. in midtown Manhattan. Chicago Tribune - Recommended. is a love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks and to s Broadway.

You could imagine a much darker or more melancholy production of this material. Which is fair enough and clearly what pleases the audience. Yank!, a new musical about being gay in the military during World War II, bows in the New York Musical Theatre Festival Sept.

A rollicking remembrance that opens both closets and hearts, Yank!