“After midnight,” as the JJ Cale song famously covered by Eric Clapton goes, “we’re gonna let it all hang out...” That’s exactly what happened last week, as we stepped out of the office a few minutes after 12 a.m. to go to Strumm’s—whose owner Mari Lagdameo was celebrating his birthday.
Unlike a lot of other Broadway musicals, in “Chicago,” the band isn’t hidden in the orchestra pit, they’re right onstage with the actors.