Chicago Reader: The seventh Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, kicked off this past Monday, featuring an exciting lineup of national, international, and Chicago-based performances just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month. Now in its seventh year, the 2024 Destinos will showcase 21 productions at stages across the city, including four world premieres.
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This article reminded me of when Kamala Harris steam-rolled through Purnell to set up her conference. The alteration of the library and classroom descriptions from the article remind me of how Harris’ team invaded the different theatres and scene shop to make it work for them. However, it seems the school building The Lion King moved into was uninhabited with students so it seems like the crew didn’t disrupt anyone’s educational. I think it is cool when buildings can be repurposed for other uses than what it was originally intended for. Except when the repurposers yeet your prop furniture to the four winds and face a moist dripping vent bank right in front of your scenery which is supporting their equipment they leaned onto it and dented your paint job with. I think the Lion King faced difficult challenges with its extra large puppetry and scope of scenery. I think it must be hard to manage a traveling show that large—but at the same time that show has been around and trying for quite a while so they probably have the system down except in special cases like this.
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