Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury have created a dance musical, 'Illinoise,' based on Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album, now on Broadway. The show is praised for its storytelling through music and movement, defying easy categorization with its lushly orchestrated romanticism.
Review: 'Illinoise,' based on Sufjan Stevens' concept album, clears a fresh Broadway path https://t.co/OtufotgOfT
Review: 'Illinoise,' based on Sufjan Stevens' concept album, clears a fresh Broadway path https://t.co/mKlZxzv5Qm
'Illinoise' Review: A Thrilling, Genre-Defying Broadway Musical Brings the Sufjan Stevens Album to Lyrical Life https://t.co/Qf9fLOWvsX
Would it be completely insane to go to the Sufjan Stevens broadway show
Justin Peck & Jackie Sibblies Drury have made something very special out of Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album with the exhilarating dance musical ILLINOISE, now on Broadway. An audacious feat of storytelling through music & movement. My @THR review https://t.co/zrJF1hGNn2
Sufjan Stevens’ hipper-than-thou music defies easy categorization, writes @ChrisJonesTrib. It goes by chamber pop, folk pop, electronica and numerous other descriptions inadequate for its lushly orchestrated romanticism. https://t.co/I65m5ei9cX
‘Illinoise’ Broadway Review: Sufjan Stevens Masterpiece Album Dances Triumphantly On Stage https://t.co/eIO7ZXDeh3 https://t.co/JyWNKK9ITb
‘Illinoise’ Theater Review: Justin Peck Transforms Sufjan Stevens’ Concept Album Into a Soaring Rush of Late Adolescent Experience https://t.co/7THKGfvSr3
Sufjan Stevens' 'Illinoise' Broadway Review: What Teenagers and Moths Have in Common: https://t.co/8P140ygU2s
What an absolute thrill to be at the Broadway opening last night of ILLINOISE, Justin Peck's emotionally charged dance interpretation of the Sufjan Stevens concept album as an adrenaline rush of adolescent experience. Review coming tomorrow https://t.co/QfzsQ9cFbV
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury turned Sufjan Stevens’s ‘Illinois’ into a Justin Peck–choreographed dance piece that’s now Broadway bound. https://t.co/8BxKkVJ6Rt