 THEATER REVIEW: 'The Addams Family' ★★★ at the Cadillac Palace ... "The Addams Family" is not the first musical whose first national tour has been infinitely better than the Broadway production that gave birth to it. | Sinatra — filtered by Twyla, Vegas When Broadway shows get offers from Las Vegas casinos, the artists involved generally shrug, swallow hard, make some cuts to suit the demands of the notoriously perfidious Strip and look forward to cashing their really big check. | | Looking ahead to the fringe in early 2012 The city's storefront theater scene tends to bypass mainstream fare in favor of more wild and woolly affairs, in which experimental ideas can spring to life with the barest of budgets. Often just inches from your face. Things tend to be a bit grungier at this level, and while you can practically feel the heart and soul of the performers, your wallet will barely take a hit. The first two months of the year are always among the busiest in terms of new productions, and with that in mind, our winter preview puts the spotlight on fringe shows worth considering in 2012. |  | Garden of delights in Evanston THEATER REVIEW: "The Secret Garden" at the Light Opera Works in Evanston ★★★ ... It has now been 20 years since Lucy Simon's gorgeous score for "The Secret Garden," which you can hear beautifully sung this week in Evanston, was first heard on Broadway. | |  | |
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