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Anthony Rapp, an original Broadway star of “Rent,” will appear as Benjamin Stone in the upcoming Porchlight Music Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s “Follies,” to be performed concert-style at Chicago’s historic Studebaker Theater. Originally seen in 1971, “Follies” follows a reunion of aging former showgirls and is set in a crumbling Broadway theater. Recently restored, the Studebaker is hardly crumbling, but suggests an appropriate ambiance.

Others slated to appear in what is shaping up as quite a notable reunion of long-standing Chicago talent include the veteran Chicago actors Dale Benson, Felicia P. Fields, Susie McMonagle, Mary Robin Roth, Honey West and James Harms, among others.

They’ll be joined by the Broadwa

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