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James M. Nederlander Theatre 24 W. Randolph Street, Chicago, IL - Previously The Oriental Theatre

The Chico Marx tour arrived in Chicago at the Oriental Theater on Jan 29, 1943.

The show was mostly musical (with solo turns from featured vocalist Ziggy Lane and trumpeter Bobby Clark), and partly comedic. Chico was in character and costume, making wisecracks and observations on the show in his Italian accent, and doing a fifteen-minute solo piano sequence.

Chico missed his brothers. “Every fifteen seconds I’d think I was hearing Harpo blowing that automobile horn, and every other fifteen seconds I’d wish he was.”

Contributed by Greg Lynch -