Chicago favorite Hollis Resnik is certainly such a storied actress, and while her stunning turn as Norma in Porchlight Theatre’s Sunset is the big draw, Director Michael Weber and company moreover prove the musical can find unqualified success in an intimate setting.

As Hedwig, Will Lidke is a lissome time bomb. Aided and abetted by Robert S. Kuhn (costumes), Keith Ryan (wigs), and, naturallement, Jeremy Ramey (music direction), he can win you over one minute with an anthem as bopping and empowering as “Wig in a Box.”

Missy Wise is that electricity.... She sings like an absolute dream, at turns as dry as whisky, as gentle as a lullaby, or throbbing with unfathomable grief. Even when she’s off-stage, you want her back.

Chicago gets shellacked by ice and freezing cold, but at Underscore Theatre, the show goes on. Shows, plural, actually.

Part of Avenue Q's magic is certainly the tittering glee of watching good ol’ wholesome Sesame Street take it up the puppet hole.