Theater Review: ‘The Notebook’: Love Over a Lifetime

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CHICAGO—Romance is always appealing to young lovers, but when love spans a lifetime, it will appeal to everyone of all ages. Such is the case with “The Notebook,” the gripping, enchanting new musical that opened at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, and is bound for Broadway.

The musical, adapted from Nicholas Spark’s 1996 novel, tells the same love story as did the 2004 movie starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. But as a stage production, it feels more intimate and personal than the film, and even more bittersweet.

Betty Mohr
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As an arts writer and movie/theater/opera critic, Betty Mohr has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Australian, The Dramatist, the SouthtownStar, the Post Tribune, The Herald News, The Globe and Mail in Toronto, and other publications.
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