While some of the larger theaters in Chicago stage musicals as spectacular extravaganzas in mammoth auditoriums, Porchlight Music Theatre has created a reputation for its revivals of Broadway shows offered in a more intimate setting. This practice allows for patrons to feel closer to the action on stage. Another hallmark of a Porchlight production is presenting new talent. Both of these commitments are now on display in the theater’s streaming showcase of “New Faces Sing Broadway 1979.”
As an imaginative way to combine musical revivals and introduce new artists at the same time, Porchlight presents the show as an outdoor concert in the parking lot of the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie and then films the event for a larger audience.
