Six years ago, TimeLine Theatre had a hit with Fiorello!, the neglected 1959 musical about New York City’s Depression-era mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Now director Nick Bowling and music director Doug Peck, who shepherded that show to success, have unearthed another rarity from 1959: Juno, by playwright Joseph Stein and composer-lyricist Marc Blitzstein, a faithful, straightforward musical adaptation of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy Juno and the Paycock.
Relief seems to come when an elegant young English lawyer, Charlie Bentham, announces that Jack is set to receive a large inheritance from a deceased cousin. Jack plunges the family into debt, using credit to purchase new clothes, furniture, even a gramophone. Mary, rejecting the attentions of an earnest local lad, falls for Charlie’s smooth speech and fine airs.
5/1-7/27: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, TimeLine Theatre, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Baird Hall Theatre 615 W. Wellington 773-281-8463timelinetheatre.com $35-$48
