'Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas' gets an expanded run
"Die Hard" is a Christmas movie, and the expanded run of its musical parody says so. (Twentieth Century Fox)
KT Hawbaker Chicago Tribune
On Thursday, Drew DeSantis, producer at Drury Lane Productions, Jim Jensen, Drury Lane, Royal George, Commercial Theater Producer and General Manager, Mark Michelson, MJA Ventures Chicagoland Theatre Fund, Founder, and the board of directors of the former storefront comedy theater MCL Chicago announced an expanded version of the hit holiday musical “Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Musical Parody.”
The book and score is conceived by Michael Shepherd Jordan, Alex Garday and Stephanie McCullough with direction by Tiffani Moore Swalley — confirming once and for all that, yes, “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie.
“Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Musical Parody” runs Dec.1 – January 12, 2019 at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.