Based on a true story, "Shining Lives: A Musical," based on the Melanie Marnich play, tells of the young women who worked at the Radium Dial Company factory in Ottawa, Illinois, in the 1920s and early '30s and learned only too late that the jobs they loved were destroying their health. The post Melanie Marnich’s ‘Shining Lives’ transformed into new musical appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - C…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PM on May 13, 2015