Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums and faculty are on the production team of an innovative new circus-themed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, running April 30 through June 15 at the Paramount Theatre, located at 23 E. Galena in Aurora, Illinois. For tickets, click here.

Paul Deziel (Photo: Brave Lux inc.)

Kory Danielson

Susan Gosdick

Jim Corti

The show’s projections designer is Columbia College alum Paul Deziel ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Technical Theatre program. The show’s music director and conductor, Kory Danielson, is a former Columbia College Theatre Program student and staff accompanist. Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance faculty member Susan Gosdick is the show’s dialect coach. And Paramount’s artistic director, Jim Corti, is a former teacher of Musical Theatre Dance in Columbia College’s Musical Theatre Program.