Director and choreographer Justin Peck and the writer Jackie Sibblies Drury discuss “Illinoise,” their adaptation of the Sufjan Stevens album.
By now, there’s already been much buzz surrounding Illinoise, the stage musical-slash-dance performance based on Sufjan Stevens’s hallowed album Illinois. Since its premiere at Bard College in New York last spring, reviews for the production—directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, with a book co-written by Peck and the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury—have been unanimously rhapsodic.
Has anyone in the audience tried to dance? Sitting in the theater at the Park Avenue Armory, I was waiting for my cue to get up and dance. Drury: There was one performance that I was at in Chicago where there were people next to me that were dancing, but I also think that they might've been under the influence of something. It was really fun to watch the show next to them.
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