Chicago’s personal John C. Reilly arrives at Steppenwolf Theatre for 2 live shows this fall as a part of a tour celebrating his musicmaking alter-ego Mister Romantic with the discharge of the critically acclaimed actor’s debut album “What’s Not To Love” on Friday.
The reveals, Sept. 14-15, characteristic Reilly because the vaudevillian-style crooner Mister Romantic, showcasing the Nice American Songbook. The album’s first single, “Dream,” penned in 1944 by Johnny Mercer, was launched in March, adopted by Reilly’s cowl of the 1923 Irving Berlin ballad “What’ll I Do?” in Might.
Throughout an look Thursday night time on “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” Reilly stated he “grew up listening to the songs,” the requirements made well-known by icons similar to Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole and Bing Crosby. “My mother would play them on a participant piano. That’s how I realized them,” he advised Colbert. He described his live shows as vastly romantic, “emotional magic reveals.”
Reilly is understood for movies similar to “Boogie Nights,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Gangs of New York,” “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Chicago,” the latter incomes him a greatest supporting actor Oscar nomination in 2003 for his position as “Mr. Cellophane,” the alter-ego of the gullible Amos Hart.
For his physique of labor, Reilly was honored with a lifetime achievement award on the Chicago Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2024.
Reilly was born and raised in Chicago’s Southwest Aspect, graduating from Brother Rice Excessive College and The Theatre College at DePaul College, the place he acquired his BFA diploma. His stage credit embody Steppenwolf’s 1988 manufacturing of “The Grapes of Wrath” and the corporate’s “A Streetcar Named Need” in 1997.
And in the event you’re trying to choose up a type of fetching chapeaux that the actor is nearly at all times sporting today, Reilly revealed to Colbert that his signature hats are made on the uber-tony Optimo Hatmakers in Chicago.
Ticket data for the Steppenwolf live shows might be launched this summer season per the theater’s web site, which at the moment gives an e-mail sign-up for the onsale alert.
