Torrence, who teaches advanced playwrighting, based his script on the real-life story of a fire that killed 600 people, mostly children and their mothers, at Chicago’s Iroquois Theater in 1903.

“Such a tragedy wouldn’t appear to be the stuff of holiday custom, but that’s what Burning Bluebeard—with its vaudeville-style tumbling, silly humor and Amy Winehouse lip-sync number—has become here since its 2011 premiere,” The New York Times reports. 

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