Here's a snippet of the story by Dance Critic Lucia Mauro.

The music-theater team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice may have helped spawn the rock opera with such hits as Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. But Chicago’s own Mark Yonally seems to have singlehandedly created what he calls the tap opera. Subjects have ranged from David Bowie to comic-book superheroes. His company, Chicago Tap Theatre, will premiere its fourth full-length summer story show May 29 through June 14 at the Athenaeum Theatre. Its title, Little Dead Riding Hood, could have been slowly extracted from Wes Craven’s twisted brain. But Yonally insists the show, which is suitable for all ages, finds humor in the darker side of fairytales.

That said, Little Dead Riding Hood has no ties to post-modern reinventions of these stories, like Into the Woods or Shrek. Nor is it a diatribe against Disney. Yonally and his versatile dancers and designers are really exploring the idea of changing one’s prescribed destiny.

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