New Musical 42 Balloons Will Make North American Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The work centers on a truck driver named Larry Walters, who uses a lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons to fly nearly 16,000 feet above Los Angeles.
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