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'October Sky': Rocket musical with a shot at Broadway by Chris Jones

In 2002 at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, a young actor from Naperville named Chris Herzberger appeared in a bizarre and now-forgotten commercial production of a musical called "Uncle Broadway." I called the show, which featured George M. Cohan rapping with Herzberger's alienated teen, a...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 6:33pm on August 13, 2015 ☆ ⚑

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