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Photos by Johnny Knight. Might as well jump: Alan Bukowiecki, Liza Jaine,Tamy Mader and Shaun Whitley in Pump Boys and Dineettes. Bottom: Jesse Kazemek, Shaun Witley and Alan Bukowiecki.
If the works of Stephen Sondheim are the $500 beluga caviar service of musical theater, then Pump Boys and Dinettes is $1.99 chicken fried steak and buttered grits. And in its current incarnation Drury Lane Oak Brook, P B & D is as irresistible as a home-cooked blue plate special to a long-haul trucker who hasn’t eaten in 1,500 miles.
To read the rest of our Pioneer Press Newspapers review of the sassy, saucy slice of heaven on Route 57, click here. And then go have yerself some pie. Or "pah," as our Appalachian-born granddad woulda said.
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