John Reeger
John Reeger is an American actor and playwright, based in Chicago.
Performances
[Theatre at the Center], [Munster, Indiana]
- Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly!
- The Old Man in A Christmas Story: The Musical
- Seabon Faulk, HaHa Jones, Farley Wood in ''A Christmas Memory''
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- Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock's Last Case
- The Wizard in Once Upon a Mattress
- Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
- John Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet
- Capt Hook in Peter Pan
- Fagin in Oliver!
- Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
- Franz in ''The Sound of Music''
[Marriott Theatre], [Lincolnshire, Illinois]
His fifteen productions include:- Max in Sunset Boulevard
- Georges in La Cage Aux Folles
- Billy Flynn in ''Chicago''
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His thirty productions include:- Gabriel Conroy in James Joyce's The Dead
- Polonius in Hamlet
- Malvolio in Twelfth Night
- Col. Pickering in My Fair LadyHay FeverTwelfth NightPianoLife's a DreamThe Learned LadiesFair Ladies at a Game of Poem CardsGross IndecencyNoraThe Little FoxesLa BêtePutting It TogetherAn Ideal HusbandThe Cherry OrchardOld TimesTartuffeThe Philadelphia StoryThe Play's the ThingHenry IV, Part 1TravestiesThe MisanthropeThe Triumph of LoveCloud NineA Midsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado About NothingWoyzeck
- ''The Seagull''
[Chicago Shakespeare Theater]
King JohnThe Moliere Comedies[Northlight]
Woody Guthrie's American Song[Steppenwolf Theatre Company]
- ''The Ballad of Littke Jo''
Works
''The Christmas Schooner''
With Julie Shannon creating the music and lyrics, Reeger wrote The Christmas Schooner which premiered at Chicago's Bailiwick Repertory Theatre and received the 1996 Chicago After Dark Award for outstanding new work. A twelve-year continuing seasonal run has followed as well as a CD, and productions in the Midwest, Texas and California have also been successful.Based on the true story of a Great Lakes schooner captain who risks life and limb to transport fir trees from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Chicago's German immigrants during the late 19th century.