Photo Flash: MARY'Z WITH A 'Z' Launches Brown Paper Box Co.'s 2016-17 Season

Brown Paper Box Co. opened its 2016/2017 season with Mary'z with a "Z," a cover-to-cover tribute to 1972's Emmy-winning "Liza With a 'Z'" broadcast featuring BPBCo. members, alumni, and fresh faces presenting and reinventing Bob Fosse & Marvin Hamlisch's set list in its entirety. Mary'z with a "Z" was an evening of song, dance, drag, and reinterpreted numbers by over a dozen of Chicago's finest artists. Classic songz. New arrangementz. 44 yearz later. Scroll down for photos!

The set list included T.J. Anderson* singing "You've Let Yourself Go," Alexis Bevels performing "Bye Bye Blackbird" with original Fosse choreography, Lindsey Charles & Ryan Szeszycki of The Cell Phones performing "I Gotcha," Johnny Kyle Cook singing "My Mammy" with Elizabeth Bagby and Brad Brubaker,Megan Ensley singing "God Bless the Child," Matt Frye singing "Willkommen" and "The Money Song,"Veronica Garza singing "Son of a Preacher Man," David Lipschutz* singing "Ring Them Bells," Anna Schutz* singing "Yes," "The Money Song," and "Cabaret," Dan Toot singing "Liza With a Z" and "Married,"Vahishta Vafadari singing "It Was a Good Time," and Damian Wille* singing "Maybe This Time."

Mary'z with a "Z" was coordinated by Justin Harner* & M. William Panek*, with Harner and Vince Hilado on piano, original poster design by Charlie Sheets*, and technical support from Madison Springhetti and Michelle Kritselis*.

For more information on Brown Paper Box Co., including the upcoming Chicago premiere of Now. Here. This., visit www.BrownPaperBox.org.

*denotes Brown Paper Box Co. company member

Photo Credit: Zach Dries

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