Just the name "Ladysmith Black Mambazo" on the marquee would be enough to sell out the run, but Steppenwolf playgoers usually expect a play with their music, so Eric Simonson frames his dazzling vocal score in a Hollywood fairy tale of career-crossed lovers struggling to conduct a long-distance romance (Chicago USA and Johannesburg RSA—is that long-distance enough for you?) with a side trip into mythic underworld realms where they undergo quasi-Orpheus and Eurydice riddles at the behest of a Plutonian wizard lamenting his own broken heart . . .
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