{"id":5865,"date":"2014-12-04T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2014-12-04T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:38:23","slug":"black-ensemble-theater-to-stage-roger-ebert-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/04\/black-ensemble-theater-to-stage-roger-ebert-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ensemble Theater to raise curtain on Roger Ebert musical"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gene<\/a>

<\/a> Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert (1987)<\/p><\/div>\n

You\u2019ve read the book. You\u2019ve seen the documentary. Now get ready for the musical version of Roger Ebert\u2019s epic life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Black White Play (Honoring the Memory of Roger Ebert through Music),\u201d a new musical inspired by the life of the late film critic, was announced this week on the 2015 lineup of Chicago\u2019s Black Ensemble Theater.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/a>

Roger and Chaz Ebert<\/p><\/div>\n

Written and directed by Jackie Taylor, founder and artistic director of the Uptown neighborhood theater, the musical is scheduled to run from September 19 to November 1, 2015. Taylor told the Sun-Times<\/a> the tribute is being partially funded by a bequest from the trust of Roger Ebert.<\/p>\n

Ebert died in 2013 after a legendary career as Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Sun-Times and host of the nationally syndicated movie-review show he founded with the late Gene Siskel.<\/p>\n

Chaz Ebert, who sustains her late husband\u2019s legacy as publisher of Ebert Digital and president of Ebert Productions, is a longtime supporter of the non-profit Black Ensemble Theater.<\/p>\n

\u201c 'The Black White Play\u2019 is a tribute to Roger Ebert where the music will speak to his philosophy of life,\u201d according to a statement from the theater.<\/p>\n

Ebert\u2019s 2012 autobiography, Life Itself: A Memoir,<\/em> was the basis for \u201cLife Itself,\u201d the feature-length documentary released after his death. Produced by Chicago-based Kartemquin Films, the film will have its global television debut January 4 on CNN, airing at 8 and 10 p.m. It will air again January 10 at 8 and 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, \"Life Itself\" made the Oscar shortlist<\/a> \u2014 the list of 15 films that now will contend for five nominations for the Academy Award for best documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve read the book. You\u2019ve seen the documentary. Now get ready for the musical version of Roger Ebert\u2019s epic life. \u201cThe Black White Play (Honoring the Memory of Roger Ebert through Music),\u201d a new musical inspired by the life of the late film critic, was announced this week on the 2015 lineup of Chicago\u2019s Black... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}