working well in Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I think there’s a curiosity here. There’s an adventurous spirit, with the people who are coming out to see the show,” Scoville said. “I do hope that people leave and they feel that way, they feel like their presence here has made a difference, the small group they come through with, they feel some sort of bond with, unified with, and they take that out into the world, a feeling that they matter.”<\/p>\n
The show is presented by the Goodman Theatre in a River North space transformed for the concept.<\/p>\n
“I think for a lot of people, theater, they’re as likely to go see theater as they are to take clog dancing lessons. It feels like this weird offense other people do, right?” said Susan Booth, Goodman Theatre artistic director. “We’re so schooled in this notion that theater happens in stuffy dark rooms, where you sit in the velvet seats, you don’t talk too much. Don’t crinkle your candy. But theater is so much more than that.”<\/p>\n
Booth reflected on working with Byrne.<\/p>\n
“He’s like the ultimate welcome mat. People say, ‘David Byrne’s doing something? David Byrne made a thing?’ I’ll go see that thing,” she said.<\/p>\n
Booth did offer a warning.<\/p>\n
“You know somebody had to step out because they’d taken a gummy before they went in. You don’t want to do this show high,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Theater of the Mind” has been extended to July 12 by popular demand.<\/p>\n
Byrne hopes it becomes a landmark performance in Chicago.<\/p>\n
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