Auditorium Theatre 2018-19 Issue 1 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

8 | AUDITORIUM THEATRE 2018-19 | September 26 - November 16, 2018 By the Numbers Celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, and 25 years of The Nightmare Before Christmas at the Auditorium Theatre on October 31 and November 1, 2018! This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Jack Skellington and his ragtag bunch of spooky pals come to the Auditorium Theatre on October 31 and November 1 with two very special screenings of Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, featuring the Chicago Philharmonic performing Danny Elfman’s classic score live! To celebrate, we took a look through the movie's history and uncovered these fun facts! The Nightmare Before Christmas is based off a poem that Tim Burton himself wrote, which only contained characters: Jack, Zero the dog, and Santa Claus. 3 To make the poem into a whole movie, many new characters were created, including Oogie Boogie, the Mayor, and Sally. In total, there are 227 puppets in the film. How many can you count? The animators created more than different heads for Jack Skellington, each conveying different facial expressions or movements. 400 Sally has over 120 faces! In addition to composing the score, Danny Elfman wrote 10 original songs for the film, including favorites like “This Is Halloween” and “What’s This?” For every week of work, the creative team behind the film produced just 70 seconds of the final movie. Overall, the movie took 3 years to complete! The movie was released on October 29, 1993 – which means that this beloved film turns 25 this year!