Illinoise synopsis
Illinoise is a 2023 dance revue musical with music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens and an original story by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury—the musical conception developed from Stevens's 2005 album Illinois. A chorus of dancers are friends who listened to stories around a campfire and compared stories about someone's childhoods and teen years, and a new member to that circle, Henry, finally shares how being gay informed his early relationships and friendships.
Last Update:August, 06th 2024
Illinoise Lyrics
- Prologue (or, A Conjuction of Drones...)
- Act I
- Three Stars (Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois)
- The Long Hike
- Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
- a story about Jacksonville
- a story about Zombies
- a story about John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
- a story about The Man of Metropolis
- Act II
- Decatur
- Chicago
- To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
- Casimir Pulaski Day
- Prairie Fire That Wanders About
- The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
- In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
- The Seer's Tower
- Act III
- Chicago (reprise)
- The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
- Epilogue (or, Riffs and Variations...and Out of Egypt...)