Tickets on sale for the New Year’s Eve performance
Tickets go on sale on 1st December for the well-known musical Chicago by John Kander–Fred Ebb–Bob Fosse, directed by Zoltán Puskás from Novi Sad. Tickets for the New Year’s Eve performance will cost between 120 and 100 lei depending on seats.
As is usual for New Year’s Eve performances, the theatre is selling tickets in two categories: 120 lei for a seat in the front half of the hall and 100 lei for a seat from the 14th row backwards. After the premiere, the performance will be shown again four times in January, with tickets priced at 80 and 60 lei, depending on the number of seats. Discounted tickets for these performances are also available for 40 lei for students and pensioners, while theatre professionals can buy tickets at 35 lei. Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office in Sfântu Gheorghe and on the biletmaster.ro website.
Chicago tackles timeless problems, timeless questions. With a certain cynicism, it approaches the show character typical of the musical genre, painting an accurate picture of the fake, hypocritical world of the suddenly popular celebrities and stars that we may be familiar with from the media. It also confronts us with the common experiences of today, how corruption has a society-shaping power, how justice is sometimes a sham, how manipulative the media is in shaping the public consciousness. How today, even the news of murders is only a temporary sensation, because we have become indifferent to death…
Chicago also accurately captures the general phenomenon where form dictates content, where the presentation and context of an event seems more important than the event itself. That in the maze of manifestations by YouTubers, TikTok stars and empty-headed fashion dictators on various other social media platforms, all human values and life itself have become relative, only the scandalous are considered real news, and it is almost impossible to separate quality from utterly worthless content.
It would therefore be hard to find a more topical piece of music to illustrate the current state of the world than Chicago, in which even the most heinous crime can be bought, in which evil does not receive its just punishment, in which life is not a rosy dream. For unlike the happy musical stories with their happy endings, here, behind the familiar melodies, spectacular performances and colourful costumes, we are greeted by the disappointing sobriety of reality.
The director’s direct collaborators in the production are Zsuzsanna Szőke (set designer), Andrea Ledenjak (costume designer), Ildikó Gyenes (choreographer), Róbert Majoros (lighting designer) and Gellért Lőfi (tutor). Performed by: Hajnalka Szalma, Gyöngyi Pál Ferenczi, József Kolcsár, Zsuzsa Gajzágó, László Mátray, Szabolcs Varsányi, Bence Kónya-Ütő, Gábor Erdei, Janka Korodi, Zsuzsanna Vass, Imola P. Magyarosi, Kati Kovács, Mária Fekete, Annamária D. Albu, Gellért Pignitzky, Kristóf Nagy Kopeczky, Dezső Derzsi, Zsolt Fekete, Lóránt-László Márton and Boróka Göllner.
